Having problems uploading my videos, there are 3 i would have liked to include, 

My final presentation video

The one with Juliet getting stressed and lighting the LEDs up

Me talking about housing the arduio in a pair of trainers

Hopefully i will get help and be able to get these on my blog my the end of wednesday!

Review

I think am looking forwards to presenting my project, as i am really happy with how it has turned out. also i am happy with my improvement on the way i am working as well, in previous projects i feel i have spent to long pontificating before settling in on an idea and executing it where as i still brainstormed and developed lots of ideas for this project but i quickly forced myself to make a decision and stick with one idea. i have never done any electronics before and the creative coding and physical computing technical workshop was the first time i had ever done any programing or even really thought about coding before. i have learnt so much and have really got into how programing and coding works and it is something i would like to do more of. i did all the coding of my final program on my own and did the final wiring as well. obviously to house the sensor and the lights in a shoe would be fantastic, if i had more time i would transfer the program onto a smaller micro board and then take the components off the bread board and wire up a shoe with two large piece of conductive copper foil surrounding the inside of the shoe. 

Just finished editing my movie on imovie with a lot of help from its 'help' section! i have learnt how to do 'picture in apicture' which i think looks very affective! i don't know how to save it in a good quality format as when i saved it to my desktop and played it in itunes the quality was very poor even though i'd exported it as a large file. i think my best bet is to simply bring my laptop in on monday to present it! it is just around the 2 minute mark but i couldn't edit out any more of Emily's fantastic acting! 

VIDEO?!?!

I've never made a video before (only really short ones when i had my camera on the wrong setting when trying to take a photo) as am a little apprehensive and nervous. 


as i will shoot somebody getting stressed and being relaxed i will be in different rooms/environments and therefore likely to have very different lighting....this will make filming a stop animation hard and is likely not to look to good


so i think i will string together little snippets of film and then talk/play music over the top?!?! is that possible? i think i have imovie on my laptop, as i am going to shoot it on Sunday (leaving lots of time to edit and get help with it to hand in on Monday, humm)


content ideas....


somebody (relatively attractive, and wearing trainers) in a plausible, everyday situations gets gradually more and more stressed, setting off a string of events


explodes


then the trainer idea is presented


the first stressful thing happens and they realise they're stressed because of the ligths. go make themselves a cup of tea and lie down in the sun smiling


in between the shots portraying emotions there will be the lights from my bredboard, i will make a little card covering to hid the wires and resistors and also will have to thinking about lighting to get them to look striking.


all in a minute :) 

photos and videos!!!

LED LED LED LED LED !!!!!

 I decided to have FIVE lights so made full use of the colour range!



int green=13;
int yellow=12;
int orange=11;
int red=10;
int redflashing=9;


however i am having MASSIVE PROBLEMS AND ISSUES with pin 11 and 10, they work when programed 


digitalWrite(orange,HIGH) or digitalWrite(orange,LOW) but when i want them to come on with regards to input (from pin 0) ........ Aghhh!

who'da thought it

so far i have done all my coding for the flashing lights on my own with nothing copied from the internet or any help from others. 

I found a good way to repeat lines of coding for a flashing light when wanting to switch to another pin is to copy and paste into word and 'replace' one int name with another int name.

The wiring! using pins 13-9. separate reisitors for each LED from the pin but all linked to the same ground.
i used pin 0 for my input, and the 5v and ground.
on the breadboard also wired up is my sensor, with a 10k resistor and ceramic capacitor although i was using a slider in order to test the lights and to simulate an increased stress reading whist working (although i was a little stressed!)