Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Once again I found myself asked to keep track of my activities in blog form for a class. I'm already a little behind, so here's me trying to make up for it.
My first go at Cyber Art class was to get into a group and do some circuit bending. That is, changing wires around in some sort of sound making electrical device so it makes different sounds. The concept was kinda cool but since I have absolutely no idea how to even look at the insides of these things people call "e-leck-tron-icks" I was completely lost the whole way through. This lead to my teammates leaving me behind with "Congratulations on opening up that child's calculator/cash register and figuring out the beeping noise". For the rest of the project I was just left to my own devices while they added nobs and buttons to a light up learning toy. It was kinda nice having all the work done for me, but I would have liked to be a little included. The toy gave me migraines though, so...not great for me. It was pretty and did what it was supposed to though. The nob they attached increased or decreased the speed of the lights and sounds. I'm not sure what the button did...
