Finally a full week of school! There was a lot happening in the shop, with Sophomores working to improve their 3D Printed Steam Engines, the Candy Sorter getting a motor upgrade, and continued improvements to the autonomous car.
This week’s Student Spotlight is Senior Alex Bress.
Alex’s latest blog post:
This week, I got as far as I could with the Christopher Nolan project, and moved on to a new one in the meantime.
On Monday, I continued Processing the movies and porting them onto the microSD card. I also spent some time making 3 new Processing script, so I could run up to 4 movies at once. Tis ended up saving a lot of time, since I would otherwise only be able to run 1 movie a day and it would take me several weeks.
On Tuesday, I only had Tenet and Oppenheimer left to do, so I set those up and had them run in the background. Those will be the last movies I run until November, when The Odyssey leaves theaters. Once I was done loading everything on to the microSD card, I was surprised to realize that the file size of all the movies combined was less than 1 GB. Because of how much space there is left, I might change the file type a bit to include audio, which had been left out before.
On Wednesday, I had to do some more component research, since I only focused on the main components last time. For the battery, I ended up choosing a 400mAH battery from Adafruit, since it fits neatly between the headers of the Adalogger. When it is running, it should be able to provide ~5 hours of playback, which should give about 2 movies while still being fairly small and lightweight.
On Thursday, I had to do a new project, since I had gotten as far as I could until the hardware arrives. I ended up deciding on a game similar to the neopixel pong Ben hasn’t fixed. I was inspired by the first ever video game, Tennis for Two, so it will use a servo rotating back and forth, like an upside down pendulum. I will continue working on this for next week and hopefully be done in not too long.
