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Prototypes: Invision-ing

Let me begin by saying that Invision is not my friend. I haven’t used it much, and boy, if anyone tells you there isn’t a learning curve, they are lying. That being said, I think that working through this process has been enormously helpful to me. Even being able to show the prototype to myContinue reading “Prototypes: Invision-ing”

Prototypes: Sketchy

Sketching is always a good place to start a project. The objective of this prototype was to begin outlining the visual appearance (look/feel) and basic interaction (role) of my capstone project. I only drew a few slides, but they were enough to walk my interviewees through the general concept of the project. The sketched artboardsContinue reading “Prototypes: Sketchy”

Project 2: Milestone 2

Component hierarchy, states, and props: We are using three components in our advent calendar app. They are (from largest to smallest) Calendar, Day, and Fact. Calendar is the holder for the 25 days and is responsible for rendering them. It has a state called today that gets the date. Day takes today and day asContinue reading “Project 2: Milestone 2”

Project 2: Milestone 1

Description: This project will be an online advent calendar to countdown to Christmas! Our inspiration is the physical advent calendars that we (myself and Sophie Foster) both had and enjoyed as children (and also now). The intended audience for this project is people who celebrate and adore the holiday season, and either don’t want toContinue reading “Project 2: Milestone 1”

Lab 5: Motor Control

In this lab, we focused on motors! We used DC and Stepper motors (which is a bummer because we are using a continuous servo in our project..). The motors were pretty fun, though the schematics made me feel super blind. Part 1: DC Motors First, we worked with the DC Motor. The wiring was aContinue reading “Lab 5: Motor Control”

Project 1 Milestone 4: How’d it go?

This project was a squeeze for me. Like all coding projects, I ended up spending around thirty hours fighting with a single javascript function that just refused to do what I wanted. Eventually, I am sorry to say, I surrendered and did the best I could with a hacked fix. Post-project, I’ve done more researchContinue reading “Project 1 Milestone 4: How’d it go?”

Object Lab 4: Serial Communication

This may take the cake for the most frustrating lab yet. I thought I knew how to code in JavaScript, but no, p5.js was out to prove me wrong. I could get approximately nothing to do what I wanted. So, I suppose let’s start at the start, and go forward from there. The first partContinue reading “Object Lab 4: Serial Communication”

Hiroshi Ishii on Pixels and Tangible Interfaces

Attending the talk by Hiroshi Ishii was an inspiring and enlightening experience. I’m very glad that I took the time to go. It is so easy to feel like there is nothing new under the sun, that everything interesting has already been done. Listening to Ishii speak was a wonderful reminder that new and innovativeContinue reading “Hiroshi Ishii on Pixels and Tangible Interfaces”

Project 1: Milestone 2

So far so good (in my opinion) on the project. My prototype is a coded wireframe rather than something in invision because I decided it was more important to make a prototype of the code than of the aesthetics. It lives here. My reasoning for this is that the code determines what I can actually,Continue reading “Project 1: Milestone 2”

Lab 3: Analog Sensor Box

In part one of the lab, we created a circuit with variable input. In my case, I decided to use a pressure sensor and a potentiometer to change the brightness on LEDs. In order to create this circuit, I first drew out a plan. Next, I connected the potentiometer and used the serial monitorContinue reading “Lab 3: Analog Sensor Box”