Grocery Detective: Basic Training
all about circuits and how to solder–which is both therapeutic and kind of magical. My eyes were opened to the flexibility you need when working with creatives and the importance of clear and trusting communication with any team, on any level. I also learned the hard way to always document the ins-and-outs of a project, from scratchy brainstorming sketches to simply showing the project off to your peers in other classes. Also, always photograph progress and sketches; you feel so accomplished to look back on your dragon hoard of papers once you’re done and see how far you’ve come.
The first interactive media studio project of my college career. This project is notable because of how new the process and mindset was to me (and thus for how much I learned by doing it all wrong at least once!) I was learning the basics of coding in a separate class as we built everything from scratch and floundered our way through.
This project makes me smile because it was such a wonderful introduction to interactive media. The professor was the loveliest creative-at-heart and my teammates were all so dedicated. I learned
A couple wires is better than nothing... a step closer to having a working sensor box.
Molly triple checking we cut enough purple foam before we attempted to clean up the mess of purple fuzz left behind.
Numbered and tagged - hey we're practically electricians!
Hook it all up, lads! Breadboard holes for all!
Add an Arduino next to really get things cooking.
Houston, we've got output and the code is all commented, too!
That's a lovely box.
Oh, the lovely box from another angle!
OH! And here's the sensor box with the sensor insets. (No real bananas were harmed in the making of this project.)
The projection and table setup for showcase.
Some freshman wandered in and took a gander at our project. (They liked it, yay!)
The final setup, top down. Looks PRETTY professional to me...