Sound Project

For my project I decided to make a device that would increase and decrease the tempo of a looped song. I did this by, essentially, combining the analog input example and the tone music example from arduino.cc. The analog input program made it so that I could control how fast a light flashed with a nob, while the tone music program played a song one time. The wiring and layout I did for my project was the same as in both examples but the code was very different. Essentially, what I did was I altered the music program so that the song would play over and over again, I then add the code from the analog input program so that it would be able to alter the tempo of the song each time it played. If you would like to try what I did I'll be posting up the code and some more precise directions in a later post.

Analog Input
Tone Music

Sound Project Pictures

Comics

Rick Grimes – Walking Dead . The character Rick is the main hero in the seris and is portrayed as a protector throughout the seris. He is shown many times in either a authoritative or fatherly role through his actions and expressions toward other charecters. Whether it’s at the beginning of the seris and he’s wearing his police uniform or with an over grown beard and a tired look .

Rorschach – Watchmen. Rorschach   is the definition of a vigilante, he literally goes around and deals out justice without remorse or pity. But, the artist implies that the character has much more depth by what he does with Rorschach’s mask. The artist draws Rorschach’s mask differently each time as if it were shifting and not completely stable or solid.

Ash Williams – Army of Darkness. Ash’s character is the typical sarcastic hero with a chainsaw for a hand. Ash’s face in particular gives off the classic hero vibe with his slicked back hair and cleft chin. However, with the addition of the chainsaw and his trusty ”boomstick” it turns him into a unique person instead of the same cookie cutter hero.

Project 4

Version 2

Version 1

Project 3-2

Project 3-1

Art Placement Experiment

With the yellow and red flashing lights that I constructed last class I made a little warning sign. The sign itself read "Caution: Possible Falling Objects", to the back of the sign I attached the battery and main components of the flashing lights. I then proceeded to make to small holes in the sign to allow the lights to poke through to the other side, creating a sign with flashing red and yellow lights. After I constructed this sign I had to come up with a good place to put it. So I decided that the door to a men's bathroom would be a suitable location. After attaching the tape to the door I found a spot adjacent to the bathroom to observe the results. I sat at that location for about an hour  and in that time period only a small handful of people interacted with the bathroom and the sign in that time period. The most common responses were that people either ignored the sign completely or stopped very briefly to examine the sign. In one case, however, one gentleman stopped at the door and examined the sign for a solid minute before finally deciding to use the restroom. Overall, I believe that the sign was effective on a small scale but I think that a larger scale sign would be more effective at giving people pause at entering a restroom.

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