secret garden sample

March 30, 2006 at 12:30 am | In Art, Science | Leave a Comment

The wall will look like this (if you imagine this many times larger):
secret garden.jpg

In the upper left corner there’s a pink flower with a photosensor in the center–can’t see it, can you?

project begins

March 28, 2006 at 3:17 am | In Art, Science | Leave a Comment

Yesterday Josh and I got together and did a few of the mechanical chores necessary for this project (I should say Josh did the hard stuff)–recording more (and different) sounds on the chips, hiding the photosensors in flowers (I soldered leads on them today–still need to tape them)–then Josh figured out the wiring on the crazy, thrift store motherboard–pretty cool! Better than all of that, though–Josh plays a mean game of table tennis–now that’s exciting!

play ball

a little frustration

March 18, 2006 at 2:59 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

So yesterday was just a little frustrating because the recordings we made weren’t as good as the first ones–owing probably to inferior chips. Josh and I are going to work on Sunday and see if we can’t make some real progress.

Kansas City reviews

March 15, 2006 at 4:57 am | In Art | Leave a Comment

another cool lab day…

March 15, 2006 at 3:55 am | In Science | Leave a Comment

It doesn’t take much to get me excited in the lab–because I am such a simpleton when it comes to technology, every little thing looks like a miracle! We (today that meant John and Muaz) recorded more bird songs on my voice recorder chips and on the old ones that Tom found in the thrift store. Tom’s are 1416’s and mine are 1420’s so I guess the only difference is mine record for 20 seconds, his for 16–but it looks like I can use that whole thrift store find and save a bunch of time. Anyway–I also used a program called Audacity that I liked very much–think it will be useful in the future.

final project outline (begun)

March 14, 2006 at 10:31 pm | In Art, Science | Leave a Comment

Here is part one–Josh will do part two which will show a block diagram with parts info, etc.
secret garden

What we need…

March 8, 2006 at 5:07 am | In Art, Science | Leave a Comment

to make our piece–now retitled “Secret Garden”–I’m just guessing now because my meeting with Josh and Muaz would have been during class time on Thursday–I’m truly bummed to remember that I won’t be here for it–need to make a quick trip to Kansas City to pick up some art work–anyway–we need at least 5 voice recorder chips, several photosensors, a rheostat–and a computer, I think. How they’ll all go together remains to be seen!

lab

March 8, 2006 at 5:00 am | In Science | Leave a Comment

Yesterday’s lab proved quite fruitful for me–finally, after two years, I have a voice recording chip with recorded sound on it! Tom and John are to be congratulated–they really did all the work but hopefully I’ll get to the point where I can do it myself. Here’s what we recorded:
bird song

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