Today we posted the first messages on our Facebook and Instagram! The first message is short to let the people know who we are and where we are from. In the next messages we want to introduce all teammates. We have divided the team into 3 groups, namely promotion, building and technic. In pairs we will... Continue Reading →
So for the Facebook page I've heard that you can also schedule messages, so I looked this up. It was very easy, at the bottom of your written message is a tab with plans, click on it and then you can enter the desired date. You can then return all your planned messages under the... Continue Reading →
Now after we saw the prototype work with a song, some issues came up. We needed the samples to play as long as the user wants, and what we have currently allows the user to play a certain instrument only as long as they hold onto the cable dedicated to the certain instrument. Basically, it... Continue Reading →
It's time to update our progress for the last week. We did got some results to share. At the beginning of the week we didn't have much, and we saw that other teams started building already so we got a mini panic attack and decided that we can also start building the lower part for now... Continue Reading →
After successfully playing around and experimenting with the Neopixel, I got the hang of how it works. I now had to put it into use in our prototype. I cut out and resoldered three LEDs and connected them to digital pin 13. Then in the code I had to fix the number of the amount... Continue Reading →
Because we want to use music for our installation, we want to know how it goes with copyright. So i did some research about copyright and this is a summary of what i found. A copyright is an intellectual property right granted by a government that gives the owner exclusive right to use, with some limited exceptions,... Continue Reading →
We needed some feedback from the machine and something to make it look more shiny and bright. I asked Harry for a LED strip and he gave me the closeset package of them he had on his desk. It was a WS2812 model that required only connection to GND, 5V and a digital channel so... Continue Reading →
We found more interesting and fun tracks on the internet from Guitar Hero, Rockband and other games. We decided on a couple of them and we also received tracks from artists from Enschede like Synnys - one of our teachers, performing in the night time as a dj. The tracks we had were separated all... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow the client is going to come to our school to see how far we are in the process of making our installation, michelle and I have been mostly bussy with the promotion and the looks of the project. Tomorrow we want to show the things we made so far and tell them about our... Continue Reading →
For the exposition we want to make a big frame so visitors kan go on the picture with it. For now we made a smaller version. We painted the frame and are going to use it to make pictures of the whole team to introduce us on our social media pages.
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