User:Tbarovsk7950

My Portfolio.

Projects I have worked on in ENES - 100 at Howard Community College.

Illuminate Clothing Project

Week 1

I talked to the team about our design plan and the materials that we will need. Our design includes LEDs, EL wire, battery packs, sowing kits, hooded sweatshirt, and more. I created a material's list seen in the group Wikiversity page.

Week 2

I began researching reliable stores online to see where to find our supplies and compare prices. I found a website (elwiresource.com) that sells a variety of illuminated lightening products, including EL wire, inverters, kits, sequencers, connectors, and power supplies. However, Radioshack does not have EL wires or LEDs and the products on Amazon are at least twice more expensive than at elwiresource.com. The website is great because they have a large variety of color selection for EL wire and the website asks what length you would like to purchase of a particular color. On Amazon, the color selection is limited, and a 3 meter long wire costs approximately $10.00, not including shipping and handling. On ELWireSource, 5 ft of EL wire costs $5.00.

http://www.elwiresource.com

I will talk to the team to see what color EL wire we should implement into our design and the appropriate length.

Week 3

I began working on the EL design. I helped braid the EL wire together, however in the process one of the EL wires broke. The connecting piece torn off from the wire. I stripped the EL wire and the connecting wire, twisted them together and sealed with electrical tape. After testing the wire by plugging it into the battery pack, it still did not work. I unbraided the El wire and substituted a working EL wire into the braid.

Week 4

While attempting to test each of the individual EL wires in the braid, I discovered that the batteries in the battery pack died. I looked around in the engineering lab and asked the student assistant for some AA batteries, but no working ones could be found. I added batteries to the supply list.

I took pictures of the LED wires and posted them on the group Wikiversity. I wrote up the Story, Summary, Decision List, Material List, Software List, and Next Steps. I helped create the software images of the LEDs and uploaded them.

Interactive System

Week 1

Reseach and develop a materials list needed for this project. The following are the basic components that we need.

Hardware - Computer - Projector - Webcam or Xbox Kinect

Software: - Adobe Effects - PO Motion

I connected a camera and projector to the computer. Using the PO Motion software and scenes, I was able to project the scene on the wall. The camera was reactive to hand motion and transmitted it onto the scene. Because the camera provides limited range of motion sensory, need to research a substitute for the camera that will allow more flexibility with the software and a greate range of detection.

Based on research XBox Kinect can be used as a motion detector. It has great properties that can be used in the project.

I also need to research graphic designs software such as Adobe Effects. Adobe Effects is very advanced and has numerous features that can be used to make custom made graphics of any length.

Week 2

Because the Xbox Kinect is orginally designed to work with TVs and not computers, need to research how to manipulate Kinect to work with computers. The following software is needed to manipulate the Kinect.

Software needed to connect Kinect: - Kinect Drivers - OpenNI Binaries - OpenNI Compliant Middleware Binaries (NITE)

Week 3

I researched software that can be used to create a continuous graphic in motion. I could not find specific software that can be used to create such a graphic. Based on reliable sources, the following is a list I made of several software and their description. The future group can know what software to disregard and what software to use, or may be helpful

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard:

1. Photoshop CS5: image editing

2. Illustrator CS5: vector tool, drawing, different brushes

3. InDesign CS 5.5: design layouts for print and digital publishing

4. Acrobat X pro: tools to convert files into PDFs and more

5. Bridge CS 5.5: media manager with centralized access

6. Device Central CS 5: simplifies content fro mobile and electronic devices.

Week 4

This week, I will work on the group Wikiversity. Create an official Material's List, look for a poster, write the Problem Statement, and Summary.

I also created a final draft of a basic system's connection schematic using ClipArt from Word. The schematic represents how the systems are connected with each other. The systems include a person, or a subject, a computer, a projector, and a camera, or a Kinect. The schematic illustrates how the motion from the subject is picked up by the systems and is transferred to the computer where it is incorporated in the software.

Week 1

I continued working on the group Wikiversity. I find the picture for the Poster, wrote the Problem Statement, Story, Material's List briefly.

Week 2

Research for software that can be used to create an interactive graphic, however I couldn't find any software that could have been used. The software was either spam, or not applicable, or had to be bought. I also researched visual examples on youtube of interactive systems. I found a great youtube video called "Japan's Greatest Performance". I linked it in the group wikiversity so that future groups could have a "demo" of what the project should be once finished.

Week 3

I completed the software list for the Adobe applications. I talked to Jessica to make the software list that was used to "hack" into Kinect. I completed the Story. I did further research about software that could be used to make an interactive graphic.

Week 4

I provided information and links for download for the interactive graphic Sparkle Somantics on the group Wikiversity. I researched software to make sound interactive system. I found software called Wekinator. I provided information about how it works, the software it has, and where to download them. I researched ways on how to create a custom interactive graphic on Processing. org. I provided links and brief information on how to create the custom graphics, what software is needed, where to get the codes. I completed the group Wikiversity page including the Next Steps.