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Tuesday, 29 March 2011


The Arduino board switch that i conducted and programmed from my computer to the components used then processing through the circuit board and the period through the LED light. I have used the switch where u press and hold the switch in order to keep the LED remaining on.
#define LED 13 //the pin for the LED
#define BUTTON 7 //the input pin where the pushbutton is connected
int val = 0; //val will be used to store the state of the input pin
int old_val = 0; //this variable stores the previous value of "val"
int state = 0; //0 = LED off while 1 = LED on

void setup () {
pinMode (LED, OUTPUT); //tell Arduino LED is an object
pinMode (BUTTON, INPUT); //and BUTTON is an input
}

void loop() {
val = digitalRead(BUTTON); //read input value and store it

//check whether the input is HIGH (button pressed)
//and change the state
if (val == HIGH) {
  state = 1 - state;
}

if (state == 1) {
digitalWrite(LED, HIGH); //turn LED ON
} else {
digitalWrite(LED, LOW);
}
}

Me and people from BCT attended an event that personally describes to me with a nature of technology having all these different professionals come up to present there work to encourage and inspire me to recognize the design terminology as a different aspect. This event was very affective in terms of me understanding the  nature and how Transmedia has travelled seen the time were it was developed. This event was very inspirational and encouraging to me and gives me a large amount of knowledge and good information to write into my journal.    

Saturday, 26 March 2011

This is the Jabbawockeez mask that I am imposing into costumes for when we are shooting footage whilst heisting something such as money or anything expensive.
http://connect.in.com/jabbawockeez-mask/photos-jabbawockeez-mask-c95f0ccabb2ed800.html

Jabbawockeez mask that i am considering on using for our hidden costume for when we are Heisting.  

Thursday, 17 March 2011

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Assessment

The pre assessment of our final design. The robot design went as planned and to programme. The operation of the robot moved smoothly in this process, but we had a situation with the design of the turning wheel used in the centre. Ever time the robot will turn, it will always catch on to the cardboard. For us to solve this obstacle, we created a new design were the robot will operate like a trolley for when it turns, the centre wheel direct its self to the direction where it is moving to. Over all the presentation went rather well and received good remarks from the judges. 

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

This is the development of our final design product that we have created. As recorded in the design process we added the Blue/Red pens to the robot. We changed the them from The sporting event from (Touch Rugby) to the game snake where the robot will leave its trail whilst moving.
This is our end product. The robot will have to separate coloured pens added to the motor which acts like a see-saw. The robot will detect yellow or red coloured cards and this will form the robot to react and zigzag acting as a representation of a touch rugby player. The characteristics of this robot seems to always rely on 2 wheels and a analog type, that has a ball in the centre that deceases the friction and increases the speed/rotation of the robot.  
Finalising what we were going to do with our robotic design, we are now creating a robot that can interact with either sound or touch. We were considering on having this drawing mechanism to be able to reflect against Yellow, Red cards. We came up with the theme where it will all relate to the game of touch rugby. The robot will  zigzag it way whilst drawing an image simultaneously. The robot will react to sound or touch. When the machine gets touched or hears sound, the robot will then react by zigzagging into a completely different route. We are still in the process of building and testing this machine.

Friday, 11 March 2011

The start and beginning of our concept design. Drawing robot. 

This image demonstrates our final design of Jester which is our chest board character that we created and designed. From our last design, we used wheels. The wheel concept in counted errors in the robot that made the situation difficult to operate with. Using Tracks in the new concept, we used tracks to give the robot more stability and balanced and also increased the traction of the design. 

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

 
This is the final concept of our robotic design. We add some extra tweaks to the construction.From the original design, we added tracks for stability and also for weight distribution to the work load. In the arm, we created it to operate in such a form for when it reaches a door......the arm then collapses down (comes down) the robot then pushes the letter underneath the door.

Monday, 7 March 2011

Robot Development



These Images briefly explain what our robot design (concept) looks like. We have changed the main concept to this final design. Reasons for this is because our group wanted to have a different structure in terms of design. We each contributed in creating this robot to the final design (image)

The Robot image that I have used from research influences me by the dominating structure that was conducted in this robot design.

Sunday, 6 March 2011

Reuben & Joseph's Circuit



These are the Images that were a=taken today 7/03/2011
This is Joseph, Ruebins completed circuit that we conducted manually. We used coding to direct and construct the flow of current of light flashes.