Electronic Media Class Blog

We have now finished our 4th Week of Interactive Art. Here is a list of what happened. On 1/27/25, I was able to spend some time and completed Lab 5. Here is some of the notes and footage I recorded while I was performing Lab 5: Notes: What is an Ultrasonic Proximity Sensor (SR04 in kit)? Provides a way of detecting objects at a distance between 2-400 cm Arduino sends a pulse to the sensor's trigger, causing the sensor to send out a burst of ultrasonic sound When the sensor receives the echo, it raises its echo output to a HIGH level Distance it senses is encoded in the length of time that the Echo pin is HIGH What is the DHT11 Temperature and Humidity Sensor? Can provide temperature and humidity information to the Arduino with just one wire What are the LCD Hardware Pins? VSS: Ground (GND) VDD: 5V power for display V0: Contrast adjustment, connected to potentiometer wipers RS: Register select RW: Read/Write pin to select how the Arduino should communicate E: Enable pin (LCD works ...

We have reached the end of Week 3.  This week, most of my notes from labs were taken from home due to the incoming snow from Florida. Regardless, here is a collection of all that happened this week for Electronics Media. On 1/23/25, we were able to meet with Jean Michael Celerier (the lead developer of Ossia) through Zoom. He showed us a presentation of what Ossia was capable of and showed a demonstration of programs that he made with Ossia. There was a sound based project and a sort of 3d plane project he was able to make. During 1/25/25, I was able to finish Lab 3 and 4 at home using the coding kit I was provided. Here are some of the notes I recorded along with videos of what each lab entailed: Notes: What are Push Buttons? A button that connects to bits of metal, allowing current to pass through the circuit In the kit, the buttons have 4 contact pins A and D are identical B and C are identical It doesn't matter which ones you use What is the Wiper? It is the middle leg of a pot...

The second week has officially closed. Here is a collection of all that happened this week in class: On 1/14/25, we went through all 25 sketches for every student. And out of all my sketches, I was able to filter down to these two sketch ideas: For number 24, the idea was loosely based off of brain surgery. It involves the viewer grabbing a needle and poking different parts of the mannequin's brain. And depending on where they poke in the brain, the eyes on the mannequin will show a projection of a video of some sort. For number 25, the piece involves placing a "paper-looking" dunce hat on a pedestal and everytime the audience wears it, it will play audio files of a voice saying terrible stuff about them. Once the discussion concerning our sketches ended, Robert assigned our first lab to do. It involved utilizing a bread board, leds, resistors, and connectors to make the led light up. I was able to finish the lab on the same day, here is a video of that experience: There ...

My first week of Interactive Art II: Electronic Objects has ended. Here is a recap of all the things that happened during the week. On the first day, we covered the syllabus which had most of the things that would normally be outlined for every class including University Honor Policy, Attendance, etc. One of the only things that were new for this class would be how its course grading was divided which involved the following: 49 total possible points 1.4 for every Weekly Blog Posts (16 total) 4.7 for every Major Project Critiques (2 total) 9.7 for participation 2.7 for Presentation/Demonstration 4.8 for Contributions to Reading Discussions The other stand out thing also included some of the programs that we were going to be involved with: Arduino - coding program that we will be using to code devices for some of our artworks. Ossia Score - interactive sequencer for audio-visual artists  Discord - the application that will be used for online discussions Blogger - a website used to cr...