Here’s the final video for my wearble music visualizer! :D

I’m currently working on the portfolio page for it. It’s not quite finished yet, still needs a lot of info.. but if you are interested in creating your own I will be updating that page soon. :]

I’ve also been updating my portfolio page in general, so productive haha. I just wish there were more time in the day to do everything I need and want to hmm.. :c

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Engineering Open House has finally come (and is almost gone)! I’ve sunk around 50-100 hours on this corset, and the worst part is it wasn’t even for class so I had to find time outside of classes to get it done. D: So if you guys were wondering why I haven’t been blogging much at all lately… this was the reason. ^^;

But it’s done now!! One of the ribs doesn’t work but I’m still excited that it’s actually working. :]] I’ll try to get some better video with a different song, as well as some more photos.

Laaa~~~ I’ve been wired on iced tea for the past week, time to relax again soon, haha. But here’s another photo for now that my friend Poh took for me. :D

Here’s some technical info if anyone is interested~

Input: Live volume feed from an electret mic
Microcontroller: Arduino Lilypad, powered by 5V
Output: 10 series of 4-5 LEDS, in parallel, powered by 9V and switched on/off with NPN transitors

Does this top look familiar? It’s actually the same top I diy-ed with studs and sharpie paint pen last summer. ;p I never ended up finding an occasion to wear it so I found another use for it!

I found out that you can remove sharpie paint pen with nail polish remover. The paint still leaves a white residue though, so I painted over the pleather parts with black fabric paint and now it looks as good as new. :] Then I painted the skeleton design over it all.

Wanna know what I plan on doing with this top now? :D I’m trying to turn it into a music visualizer that will light up to the frequencies of live music/ambient noise. Kind of similar to my last project (a hanging wall visualizer) but with completely different wiring.

With some guidance from one of my professors (as well as a ton of mistakes and some burning myself with bad wiring) I was able to make a circuit to light 50 LEDs at the exact same time. It’s not a pretty circuit but it gets the job done.

Yesterday (or really this morning at 1:30am) was the first time I got to see my music visualizer in action! I’m so happy I finally got the chance to finish this, and super lucky I was able to convince my professor to let me use it as a final project (if it’s for class I have an excuse to spend time on it!).

I had the craving to make a large-scale wall music visualizer about a year ago, and came up with the idea to use soft circuits on the flight back from San Francisco this past summer. Using soft circuits meant that it could be flexible, light, easy to hang up and super easy to transport (compared to my original idea using plastic LED diffusing plates).

This was created using an Arduino microcontroller, and takes input from ambient noise in a room (not through a cable/mp3 player) using an electret mic circuit. It’s still not completely finished and I plan on making a new and improved one in the near future, but for now I am very very happy I got something done. c;

In case anyone has questions about it or wants to try and create their own, I have a wiki page (for class, haha) full of information and links. :] I would have included the information in this post but it would have ended up obnoxiously long.. If you have any additional questions I’d be happy to help~

Song in the video is Night by Night by Chromeo

I managed to convince my professor to let me use my unfinished summer project as my final project for ECE, haha.. finally got to spend time on it because it’s for class now.

After I turn in my final video project on monday I will be pretty much free for the rest of the semester. *o* I have two finals after that but they don’t really count because I have almost two weeks to study for them~

(Soon I will be back to normal blogging, and then winter blogging!! Winter means free time for all the projects I didn’t have time to do during the semester.)

Javascript Ghost Game

If you have nothing better to do you should play the javascript game I made a few weeks ago. :D

Click the image or go here to play~

(I think it only works in firefox though.. D: )