Ann E. Resnick

Here are a few photos of how things looked on April 27th ’round midnight…
Tangled up in…

Wall 1–in place temporarily

It’s not a bunny

Let’s see–we’re having a few technological glitches–something to do with the amplification of the sound (I think)–Josh has this under control and I don’t expect it to be a problem. The programming of the chip seems relatively simple since Invisible Drum guys posted their code. So, what remains–I have to build the wall–I looked at the space again last night and I would guess that the wall will be approximately 8′ x 12′–so, 3 sheets of foam (@22.00/sheet) and thousands of flowers–I think I have enough flowers (hope I do)—I’m anxious to begin–and I guess I will start by unsoldering the flowers I had already prepared–the wires seem to be touching–I can solve this by either shrink wrapping the wires before I insert them into the flowers–or even easier, just separate the wires and stick them directly into the foam–I’ll think about that some more.

The wall will look like this (if you imagine this many times larger):

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

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

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

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!