Project Four Practice

We had two days of tutorial for SolidWorks, a program we will have to use in project four which officially starts tomorrow. We received the brief yesterday, which was great as it gives me time to think about what I think we could do to fulfil it.

For the tutorial on Wednesday we made a cube, put two identical holes in it, then made pins for the holes and put them in the holes. Sound simple? Its not. CAD's SolidWorks is one of the most confusing, infuriating and difficult programs ever. The delete button doesn't work in it and neither does control Z. It is only for windows so we all had to use the macs in the computer lab because they have both windows and mac.

Today we made a squished tube-like shape and the top half of a question mark, then tried to replicate a tripod design before we were shown how to render our images and how to get them on drawings. 

Project Three

http://www.imal.org/NewBraveWorld/NBW2/?p=46
http://inventorspot.com/articles/most_scandalous_geeky_gadget_peripheral_pants_wearable_keyboard_25231
http://www.unwiredview.com/2010/05/31/sony-nextep-wearable-mobile-computer-concept/


For this project we had to make a wearable interface to interact with images/videos that showed the idea behind the our films from the last project.
We had two days of tutorial in Max/MSP/Jitter, the programming software. We also had one lesson in hacking a keyboard that we would use as our wearable interface.
We started this project at the beginning of our holidays and had one week to work on it afterwards.

These are the help patches I got from the Max/MSP forum: By Bas van der Graaff

                                                                                                        By Koboo

                                                                                                         By MIB

Then there are my numerous patches trying to figure out how to get what I wanted. First trying to get a key to play a movie:

 Then trying to get a different movie to play each time the button is pushed, then finding Bas van der Graaff patch's:

 Then trying get the counters to sync so when one movie played from the left side then one from the right the right side would skip a movie before getting Koboo's help:

Then Finding MIB's patch and editing it to play a different movie when it sensed movement in a certain area:

And my final messy patch with both movement detecting and the yes or no patch and an extra chromakey bit: