Archive for the ‘Intro to Computing Media’ Category


Liveable Interactive Music Player

Monday, Dec 14th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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Introduction
My final project for Physical Computing eventually ended up to be an MP3 player that encourages you to take care of your houseplant. This evolved from a previous idea of making a plant that is more like a pet than a plant. I changed my mind after getting some good feedback from my class when [...]

Using Arduino and Processing together

Wednesday, Nov 25th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 1 Comments
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Today I got up early and fooled around in Processing…for hours. I was playing with the Minim sound library, which I’d planned to use for my Intro to Computing Media project, an mp3 player. After sitting around for so long, I could how I was getting both noticeably older in age, but also wiser about [...]

ICM Week 8: Midterm! My fortune telling, Magic 8 Ball calculator

Thursday, Oct 29th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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Last week we discussed ideas for our midterm and I presented something I’d been thinking of at Week 4. My idea was to create a calculator that doesn’t work…or works more like a Magic 8 Ball than a calculator. It does actually add and subtract but what you get are strings, not numbers.
When I started [...]

ICM Week 5: Objects and Data Input

Thursday, Oct 8th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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So, this week’s reading and assignment were pretty difficult. Dealing with text and data is not easy, and Chapter 18 in the Learning Processing book was really difficult to understand. I’ll probably read it again. Instead of really coming up with anything original, I turned in a very slightly modified version of one of the [...]

ICM Week 3: Functions, ‘For Loops’, and ‘If’ statements

Thursday, Oct 1st, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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This week it got serious. We were using a bunch of Processing methods - if statements, loops and functions - which at the time was a big deal to me, since in practice I still didn’t really understand how to put it all together.
But, I found some residents to help me out and explain how [...]

ICM: Week 2 - Using variables and interactivity in Processing

Thursday, Sep 24th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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This week, I used the same concept from last week but I used variables to reduce the amount of code I was drawing. I also added an interactive element. Now, when you use your mouse to move left to right across the screen, the background changes from 255 (white) to 0 (black). The alpha level [...]

ICM: Week 1 - Introducing Processing

Monday, Sep 14th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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In this week 1 exercise, my idea was to create a display of “swatches”, showing the color spectrum against a background of either white or black. I also created swatches of either white lines against the background of each color, and a final long series of stripes of white against no color, or black.
The whole [...]