Oh, the famous Arduino :) That was probably interesting. What was the best you've done with it? Just curious :) Many say that C++ is hard to learn, but I think it has the same difficulty as many others, hmmm. Have you ever tried assembly language? That's hard :-D Phyton is nice too, what are you using it for?
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The 3d graphics program I use is scripted in python and you can open up a code console within the program. I want to create an animation where I combine financial and biological systems together, creating cellular representations aspects of the financial markets.
I created a few projects with the arduino, the drawing machine was pretty tough as I was sticking together blocks of code that were way above my knowledge level. I think my rat sculpture was maybe the caziest although the code was pretty basic. I created a sculpture and installed several doors and a feeding system and trained 3 rats to open the electronically activated doors and feeding systems. It was all buttons which opened the doors and feeding systems. So the rat would press the button and this would activate the arduino which in turn would run a stepper motor script. I also made a UV light sculpture with the arduino.
I havent tried assembly and from what I hear I dont intend on learning ha. One language at a time ;)
Sounds like a great idea with the 3d graphics program. Looking forward to seeing the final results :-D
Wow you seem to have been pretty serious about coding and building stuff with Arduino! I've been playing with the Particle Photon (which has many similarities with Arduino) and making a few projects, but not as big as yours (not yet at least).
Wanted to make a drawing machine too, but got stuck in building it, not coding it hah... Do you have a post about the rat sculpture? That sounds pretty interesting :) I've also been in situations where the most simple lines of code with the least effort rewarded the most in functionality, while sometimes I'd spend days and days on a complicated code that just didn't want to work as I wanted.
What did the UV light sculpture do?
True. If you ever change your mind though, you should maybe see some videos about the old computers that are still very retro and used for demoshows today (amiga, commodore etc.). And if it seems interesting, assembly language would be great for learning on one of those old computers, it's really really fun and easy :-P I've only managed to make a few sounds and draw some lines on one of them, in BASIC language. Man that was fun! :-D
Ha that sounds fun, I always just pressumed that BASIC was very hard.
The light sculpture was made of several uv flourescent tubes and they all desperately blinked. There were patterns screen printed on the walls in uv ink so they appeared when the uv light was strongest. It didnt work as well in reality as it did in my head but it worked somewhat.
Ill upload a blocg post this evening with some images of the rat piece. ha Im sure people will love their tails.
BASIC is actually so easy, much much easier than assembly or C++. I totally recommend you try it :-D Maybe on a BBC Micro B simulator.
Interesting with the UV light :) At least you get to finish an idea. Until now I've started so many projects and didn't finish them, that it's almost frustrating.
Yep, saw the rat project, really nice! Tell me, is this part of university projects, or just your own?
Part of my own art research. I graduated in 2011 so Ive been making art and exhibiting it then. Its all self directed stuff so fun but challenging.
What about your work, is it part of a uni course or..?
Nice that you make exhibitions :) Self directed here too, but I haven't thought of exhibiting my work in any way, it feels as if it doesn't look good enough. I would really like to make a flower sculpture in the future, based on a Particle, gears, servos, and lights. Who knows, maybe I'll take you as an example and look for presenting it somewhere :)