Kate Casey Interactive Art II

 So this week did not go at all as planned for obvious reasons, but I've been attempting to stay busy. As I showed in class on Thursday, I have the crank installed with the 3D printed backing part and it is pretty secure. I also tested the projector with transfer paper as the screen and it looks good. I also made a topper for the switch part this week and it fits/functions, but I might reprint it to be a little bigger just for aesthetics. . Thursday evening, I decided to go home to be with my family and luckily for me, my dad owns a soldering iron and solder sucker, so I was able to remove all of the old solder off of the switch part and apply fresh wires to what is (hopefully) the correct connections. Next steps are figuring out how to make that work with the arduino and mounting it into the board I have. I would like to overlay the ads with sounds that change as someone moves the switch, kind of inspired by shifting gears in the car. I also like the idea of making the switch alte...

EDIT: Just fixed the issue I describe below. Rather than having two movie files, I just have two out tops connected to one file and replaced the paths of each file with those. Yay. I am really excited about the setup that I have in touch designer for project 2, but there are a few issues I still cant resolve. I went in today to try and add on more elements for the other sliders and things I have to go along with the crank, but I realized that only a short portion of the long video was playing on loop. I guess in my attempt to sync the two videos for the blur effect to work, it ended up locking them to the timeline and they both reset after the first 10 seconds or so. I'm now back to having the full video play but dealing with the same issue I had before where I can't get them to line up. I've spent about an hour trying different things and am still stuck. Also, I filed down the edges of my 3d printed crank bit, but it still doesn't fit nicely, so I think I am going to j...

 Short post today because I don’t have much to show for what I’ve been working on, but I made progress on both the lab and progressing through my project idea.  Here is the soldered version of my power supply motor setup working:    This will be helpful for my project, as I’ve decided to make a conglomerate object that highlights some of the unique mechanical aspects of my old car. I’m envisioning something that sort of hums and / or vibrates on its own, the intensity of which changes based on interactivity. I thought of doing some kind of pedal that’s separate from the object to lean more into the car concept, but I think that might be too difficult to accomplish with the time constraints given that it would probably have to be wirelessly connected to the object. So I’m kind of stuck on what kind of interactivity I want and how it takes shape. Regardless, I found two really small pulleys with belts that are supposed to be used as 3D printer parts, so I can incorpora...