The final thing

This is our movie and the final thing!

The Beamograph

/The group

The End, Ola part 2

Hello

The module is coming to an end. We made a good movie which felt like a good way to end up the project. Yesterday we had the exhibition day. I was sick but came to school an hour to fix some tech problems. As I was told everything seems to work smoothly after I went home to bed.

In general I’m satisfied with what we achieved. I overcame some fear for technology. That’s good I guess. I also think it’s a lot of thing we could have made better as well. Better communication between us, more distinct goals during the project, having someone who made the project management.

Something that’s really cool is our prototype. It’s awesome indeed. If you really want to check it out, try to find our video. It’s on youtube. The link will be here soon enough. ‘Til then. Have a nice weekend.

Cheers from Ola

Thank you and bye bye!

FINALLY! Exhibition over, and everything worked out good! It's been an awesome day!
When we came here this morning our project didn't work but after fixing and testing we got it together and the exhibition could start.
There were not many people on the morning exhibition but that was alright because we had some trouble with the sound at the beginning. Ola, who is sick today, came to school to fix it and then he left again. We had a break for 2 hours and 30 minutes and then the exhibition started again. This time it came a lot more people and it was fun!

What surprised us most was the reactions we got when people tried our turntable, they all found it fun and cool and some even came back to try again! Since we've been working with this project for three weeks we didn't think it was anything special but that was just what we thought! We are all happy how this day went and wouldn't have done it different. We did have more plans but since we didn't have time we couldn't do it.

When exhibition time was over Petter Wärnsberg (the module leader) had a short lecture. This was the first time we met him, when he had his first lecture at the beginning of this module it was a Skype lecture live from London.

After three week of hard work, a lot new experience and a bigger knowledge about all this it's done and it worked out just good! Tomorrow we have to do a information movie about our project, we are going to do a stop-motion movie in After Effects with a touch of the 70's (which was our main design). It's going to be awesome!

Well, thanks for your interest and for following our project. If having any questions, all of us has our own personal blog and the links is on the right side! Don't hesitate to contact us!
Pictures from the exhibition

Group 2
Madonna
Gustaf
Fannie
Ola
Martin

Exhibition time: Gustaf/Part 2

Happiness all around, we’re done! There was a small chaos in my brain this morning when I tried to connect the prototype to a new computer. I had to download all the software to my laptop since Ola was home sick and we have been using his computer in the development phase.

I couldn’t get it to work! So I called Ola, who was so sleepy I hardly understood what he said. But he made me wiser and i realised i had forgotten to load everything into Max/MSP. I got it to work but more panic arose. The light was different! after an hour of trying to fix it We had to call Ola in. He arrived fairly quick and got it to work around 11:00.

The day ended quite well and we have received many kind words about our prototype which is great. There was even one guy who came back twice to play with it. All in all it’s been a great experience with both highs and lows.

Were done, and it feels great. now I'm of to yoga class.

Peace!
/Gustaf

2 days of brain chaos.. Gustaf/Part_01

2 days of chaos to an end. Ola has been sick but worked as well as he’s been able to and managed to finish the Max/MSP program. I’ve been really stressed out and cranky and been concentrating on constructing the prototype. On Tuesday I decided I wasn’t allowed to go home before I was done, but around 00:30 I really had to go so I could get home. At least I was mostly done. I had soldered practically everything that needed soldering and today I only had to put it into the record player, which was fairly easy.

Around lunch Madonna and Fannie went to the city to pick up the piece of glass we had ordered. Ola also had to get a way for an hour or so since he’d forgotten the switches for the prototype. While they where away I sat around fixing with the prototype whilst being crankier than ever and Martin was working on the magazine article.

Madonna, Fannie and Martin worked on finishing the article and I was tweaking the prototype and added a knob to it as well. Fannie was great and did a record which we ended up not using, to bad. Madonna and Fannie cleaned up the final record and taped it to the piece of glass we bought.

When I left Madonna was working on a logo/presentation for our exhibition.

Bom shakalack!
/Gustaf

tomorrow is the exhibition day!

We have been working hard during the week. Monday and Tuesday we buyed all the material that we required. Me and Madonna were all over the town buying things like painting colures, a table, nails and other stuff that we needed.

I brought two things to school, from my home. A very cool lamp and a red chair.
So now you can sit on the chair and scratch on the turn table! The lamp is very good because the turn table needs lights to play all the different sounds!

We painted the table that the turn table will be on, in colures that match the lamp and the chair, we did a pattern of flowers and then we sprayed the color on the pattern!

Today we hade alot to do because of the deadline, everything had to be finished at five in the afternoon.
Our glass plate that we ordered in the beginning of the week were finished today, then we wrote on the magazine article and we all worked hard to finish the project in time!

Tomorrow is the exhibition day!
Byebye Fannie

Day before D day.

Tomorrow it's the big D-day, deadline! literally deadline.. We have exhibition on thursday, all day. In the morning it's going to be a private exhibition for invited people and after lunch (13-17) anyone who want can come.
And to bad for us if the prototype doesn't work. All this hard work for nothing! BUT HEY! It's going to work, and it's going to rock the sh*t.

Today Madonna and Fannie was out almost all day on a mission to buy things for the prototype and exhibition. They also visited schools to tell about the exhibition. Anyway they bought color to paint with, nails and sandpaper to the wood and then they found a table which they carried through the whole city to school.

Meanwhile Gustaf, Martin and Ola was at school fixing with the arduino board, MAX/MSP and the turntable.

Later Madonna and Fannie redecorated the table they bought and Gustaf continued to work with the turntable. Ola felt sick so he went home and worked from there, did testdriving to MAX/MSP and Martin did some changes in the projectplan.

Today was a day filled with shopping, building and testing. Tomorrow will be the hard day filled with panic and stress. But after that we can all look back and smile, beacuse if it doesn't work it will at least look good, that's a promise.

Here's some pictures,
to be continued...

Our table on a journey

And then it was time to work..




And then we took a coffeebreak


/ The group.