prototyping

Experience Prototyping lasting for five weeks was over. I didn't insist on my blog from last week because I was too busy to do the projects. And sometimes I couldn't think of anything to say.

About last week, we learned Experimental Image Making. Simply speaking, just taking a great many photos and running them fast, like movie. I thought it was much simpler than arduino coding, but actually it was taking longer than expected. We needed to consider many elements for each picture, position, background, light, color, even the shadow. After taking a photo, we just can move the object a little, quite a little, and couldn't move any other things. But some stuff is so small, I felt I was doing surgery, super careful. The only pity thing was my computer have some problem, it couldn't install the Dragonframe. So in the postproduction work, I was just an onlooker. The video is on my group members' hand, Sor and Camila.

About this week, back to arduino. I think it is summary of what we have learnt in past several weeks. The topic of project was so wide, made me difficult to decide the creature. In past time I have learnt a lot about coding, but I still have no interest in it and couldn't achieve the project alone. Thank god, it was group work. Finally we made a crazy dancing doll, never stop blinking and dancing. So if the next project still need to use coding and must be finished individually, I have no confidence, I don't think I can do it, I need more help.

Tuesday--the fourth week

Today the teacher spent much time fixing the equipment. They seem very complicated and expensive. I saw the imaging videos from the last year student, amazing.

Monday--The fourth week

This is a new week. I strongly feel there will be another big challenge waiting for us. Today we installed the sofeware called Dragonframe and used it to take many photos, then play it, wonderful things happened, the object was moving. We can uses photos to make movie. But it's not an easy thing. The first assignment is to make a object falling and bouncing. We just needed to take a photo, and then move the object a little, take a photo again......repeat this process. But actually we needed to consider the speed. When we moved it, they should not be equal distance. Start quickly, and then became slow nearly touching grand........

Tuesday--the third week

In the morning we presented our assignment1-sketches. Some of them are awesome.
In the afternoon we exercised several examples which are from teachers. They are all working, but coding seems difficult. I am worried whether I can finish the project of this week. Every week has big challenge, the same this week.

Monday--the third week

Today we spent whole morning installing software. Windows system brought me some troubles, and Chinese version made more troubles. But at last we still succeed to upload all the materials. In the afternoon the teachers taught some simple coding. And the first assignment is to make ten sketches. It is not difficult, but we were supposed to do 10 different moving.up and down, left and right, rotate,line, circle,square,color...... I was thingking...thingking...thingking...

Thursday+Friday--the second week

These two days we were doing assignment 2, making a design about haptic with arduino. I had never learnt arduino before, ao very worried about this project. But my group member Nosheen has background of computer science and told me don't worry. She gave me confidence. We changed our idea several time. Finally we made a robot shaking hand. It wae supposed to move smoothly, actually it did in the morning. But in afternoon presentation it became crazy. At least it still could shake. I was really happy that day.

Wenesday--the second week

Today we did presentation of model. I was so surprised at my classmates' designs. Their mind is quite open and novel. That is the magic power of design school student. I really learnt so much.

In the afternoon we started to learn audrino coding. It is interesting, but not easy. I just can follow the teacher, cann't make some new things.