Idea: This project is an interactive fountain. It has two separate water streams controlled by the movements of left and right hands, respectively. Light, projecting on the water, and musics will evolve according to different hand movements as well. Audiences in this piece of work are not only participants but also observers. They contribute to the changes of the cosmos in the basin, but they also reflect on the changes they make. The theme of the project lies in the traditio

progress: 1. fabrication for fountain 2. material gathering: neopixel, fabrication material 3. revise concept and fabrication 4. decide to use max/msp instead of garage bang for generating music 5.get bump for pouring out water 6.user test water string Not sure yet: 1. bluetooth communication; 2. will two IR sensors interfere with each other? otherwise, I will switch to time distance sensors 3. water string is not as high as it should be plan: 11.27 - 12.3: bluetooth communic

This week, I come up with my pcom idea and did some basic research. I also tested the physical interaction part. Ideation: 老子是道家学说的创始人，其道的核心为“法自然”和“无为”。张岱年先生指出，“道是老子本体论的最高范畴”。老子在开篇就提出：“道可道，非常道；名可名，非常名。”“可道”、“可名”的不是“常道”、“常名”，言外之意就是，“常道”、“常名”是不可道、不可名的。要言道说名，不得不又回到了现实，通过它的集大成者---水来“立象以尽意”。 水——寻常物，一切生命体内皆有水，可它的寻常却也造就了它的不寻常。水有人性，人亦是水，生命起始于水，生存离不开水。冥冥之中，我们与水有着密不可分的联系。而这种联系一定程度上有反映到了老子之道和水之间。 Concept: - nature - human beings - Yin and Yang - Taoism & Lao Tsu 上善若水，水善利万物而不争。处众人之所恶，故几于

At first, I want to make an interactive fountain. People, by controlling the flow of water, communicate with the water. It's a process for meditation or simply a public installation. Some light and sound will change according to different flow of water. But then, I found that controlling the flow of water cleverly and beautifully is not easy, so I prefer to leave this idea to next semester. For pcom final, I finally decided to make an interactive generative art. I haven't dec

arduino part p5.js part circuit and fabrication part We used a NPN transistor and an analog output pin to control LED String's lightness. Flex sensor's value is transfer to analog input pin. According to different range of input value, led string lightness will have different effect. The value is sent to p5.js. #assignment

1. changing potentiomenter, using serial communication, sending data to p5.js, changing color 2.changing potentiomenter, using serial communication, sending data to processing, changing position #assignment

It's a really frustrated work...I tried a lot of ideas but it all failed. So at last, I just made something really simple. But my motor's wire broke at the last moment which made me more frustrated. sad.... Anyway, at least I know some constraint and problem I will face for doing next motor project. #assignment

The inspiration comes from a chinese poem and a famous love story. It's coincidence that the assignment of Cabinets of Wonder is to make a diorama, so I combine it with the homework of intro to fabrication. 1.sketches, illustration 2. prototyping After first try, I found that result looks so common and simple which doesn't match my requirement. So I decided to change material and make a 3D model for simulating the effect I want 3. 3D modeling for testing I used MAYA to simula

Small Practice1 Small practice2 using transistor to control high voltage circuit: led + motor Using tone and speaker to play a song #assignment

I used a plastic paper and wood to make an enclosure. It was very cheap which cost me less than 3 dollars and was very easy to make modification and add new hole. I didn't make any fancy stuff, since I want to leave it till next week when I have an idea for my pcom. So this week I just bought a lot of enclosure materials, for example, standoffs, and made a very quick enclosure for prototyping and testing. #assignment