Here are some pictures of the final projects.

Please help me by adding some captions that include title, name, date, comments for your pix.

Congratulations to all and thanks for a great mini!

• Working circuit, software and parts for controlling at least 4 motors/lights independently with 4 photo-resistors; this must be prepared, assembled and ready to view at the beginning of class; there will be no time for problem-solving
• Sketches for “the stage” for your final project; the stage should help you fasten your components (motors/lights) and present your collected miniature objects.  Be prepared to share drawings, sketches, descriptions and reference images for how you will go about designing and making a “stage”.  Each student will be expected to give a 5 minute presentation on their research/ideas for how and why the objects she has collected will be displayed and animated.

Please complete the following:

• Add a comment to the blog post assigning “On Longing”, that includes: 1) Three ideas, responses, or questions about the assigned ready; each of the three should include at least two sentences (more is better), each should describe a reaction or thought to something in the text; note quotations from the text explicitly with page numbers.
• Download the in-class max patches from Jan. 30, 2012, open the patch named “04. max and our miniaturs.maxpat” which lists the list of applications of Max to the miniatures project.  Apply each list item to something(s) in your collection of miniatures by describing what you’d like to add movement to, what thoughts you have on controlled lighting, what sensors you wish to use and why, etc.
• Review the other Max patches from  in-class max patches from Jan. 30, 2012

Below, the list of necessary software for getting started with Max and the Arduino platform:

1. Read the Prologue and first chapter On longing by Susan Stewart (1984)
2. Conceive, collect and curate two miniature collections

1. Read Freud’s Uncanny
2. Compose, Stage and Photograph two miniature scenarios that are in conversation with one another; upload final images to Blackboard in jpg format, at or above 1024 x 768 resolution.