Prototyping for Design¶
ROBOT Both theoretical and practical aspect about using a Robot. Completely new topic for me. A robot works in linear and in joint-movements. IaaC robot works in 7 dimensions.
BLENDER¶
Why using Blender? This is how the class started. The point that I agree the most with is that blender is built by a community and that’s why it has more potential, and also I think it has an horizontal communication and accessibility. Also, in Blender the priority is the design, not the profit and not just the design that we create but also the possibility to shape the design of the tool itself. Victor introduced us to Roosendaal, I knew the studio before but I didn’t know about the fact that he started and released Blender. When the propaganda was over (just kidding, it was a great ethical introduction on the software) we were introduced to the interface, the system, the properties and the personalisation (a complete new topic for me since that I’m used to Adobe…)
Playing with Suzanne
LIVE CODING AS HUMAN INTERFACES¶
with Xavi DomÃnguez
I really enjoyed this class because they managed to explain hard topic with the comparison with music. And they even suggested to go check a live coding party that was amazing!
https://github.com/hydra-synth/hydra
We tested Hydra to understand and test coding language: it’s a javascript based coding video, to make it simple that helps to visualize easily the coding, live.
Phyton and Blender First we connected one phone to blender in order to rotate Suzanne, poor monkey, by the movement of our phones. The signal was sent by wifi connection. the code for making suzanne rotating by rotating the (andrid)phone. Important is to change the host and prt accrdingly.
import bpy import socket
Setup UDP socket¶
host = ‘192.168.0.12’ # The same address of your computer port = 5555 s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1) s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BROADCAST, 1) s.bind((host, port)) s.settimeout(1)
Receive data¶
try: message, address = self.s.recvfrom(8192)
# Check if the data is complete (sometimes the app sends only some of the sensors)
if len(message.split(b',')) == 17:
x = float(message.split(b',')[-2]) * 0.01745
y = float(message.split(b',')[-1]) * 0.01745
z = float(message.split(b',')[-3]) * 0.01745
# print(x,y,z)
context.object.rotation_euler.x = x
context.object.rotation_euler.y = y
context.object.rotation_euler.z = z
except: # Stop if no more data is received self.cancel(context) return {‘CANCELLED’}
def execute(self, context): wm = context.window_manager self._timer = wm.event_timer_add(0.001, window=context.window) wm.modal_handler_add(self) return {‘RUNNING_MODAL’}
Then we also used Arduino in order to give light to a LED string:
include ¶
define PIN 12¶
define NUMPIXELS 60¶
Adafruit_NeoPixel pixels(NUMPIXELS, PIN, NEO_GRB + NEO_KHZ800);
int value = 0;
void setup() { Serial.begin(115200); pixels.begin(); }
void loop() {
if (Serial.available()) value = Serial.parseInt(); while (Serial.available()) Serial.read();
for(int i=0; i<NUMPIXELS; i++) { if (i == value) { pixels.setPixelColor(i, pixels.Color(0, 250, 0)); } else if (abs(i - value) == 1) { pixels.setPixelColor(i, pixels.Color(0,15, 0)); } else if (abs(i - value) == 2) { pixels.setPixelColor(i, pixels.Color(0, 1, 0)); } else { pixels.setPixelColor(i, pixels.Color(0, 0, 0)); } pixels.show(); }
delay(20); }
