Course Review

Interactive Media Course is of the best courses I've took for this semester. This course is very important as it applies some of the techniques to work with processing and arduino that are useful to learn.

I have learned a lot from this course. During this course, I have learned the processing programming and also the arduino. Moreover, I have gained the knowledge of how to interactive both processing and arduino together. The processing part involves the technique on how to work with pictures, texts, the use of mouse and many other useful applications. The arduino part engages in working with the board such creating a Led Traffic Lights and a piano show.

However, my favorite homework in this course is the Image Animating Application. I really enjoy this homework because the image can be displayed as fade in and fade out; move horizontally and vertically; can be zoomed in and out. In addition, each effect can be controlled by the button so this is more fun than ever.

Finally, this course is said to be the best for me during this semester. I think Interactive Media Course should be taught for two semesters rather than one. This will give students more ideas about processing and arduino. Anyway, I've learned a lot on how to work with processing and arduino. On the other hand, the teacher is really nice as he interacts with students more often.

Interactive Media Project Show

This is the final project show done by Zongo and myself (McBush). It is about catching the drops and earn points. The program is done in the processing and use the board for the arduino to control the buttons which can be moved left and right respectively. The buttons can control the catcher to catch the drops and gain points. There is also a time to show users how much time they spent while playing this game.

The project is pretty simple and is more fun to play with it. 'Catching the Drops'

Homework 12: Arduino Piano Show

The Arduino Piano Show is about pressing the buttons in the button and sing a song. This show is really enjoyable because it is like playing a real keyboard. It gives a feeling of playing a song and play the keyboard. I really like this homework because it gives me more idea of how to create a simple keyboard.

Homework 11_02 Led Traffic Light

This homework is about creating different colors of the Led Traffic Lights. Different colors will blink at different time. It is more fun to work with this project because it is like simulating the real traffic lights. I enjoyed a lot during the show of the Led Traffic Lights.

Homework 7 - McBush, 95132013

http://ss24.mcu.edu.tw/~s5132013/mcbush/

This homework is about coordinate system translation. It's very interesting to use the translation and the rotate functions to move or spin the object like a fan. In addition, in this homework I have learned how to use the pie (PI) along with the rotate function. However, I found have some difficulties such as making the shape looks great and also when the objects spin were not that flexible but later I add smooth and change the background and everything was working well.

Homework 6 - McBush, 95132013

http://ss24.mcu.edu.tw/~s5132013/applet/

This homework seems to be more interesting because anybody can interect with the animating image effects more easily. The movement of the image makes lively. However, I encountered several problems such as moving the image from one end to another without a stop but later I fixed it and now the program is working well. I hope to practice more with this particular exercise before go on to our next homework exercise.

Homework 5 - McBush, 95132013

HW05

http://icac.no-ip.org/bush/hw05_1/applet/

This homework is basically for us to create an image browsing system. It is very interesting to work with the images by clicking prev and next to see both the back and front images. The image can be displayed at randomly. However, I found one funny mistake which was I forgot to change the name of the image file. Later I correct my mistake and now the program is working great.

Homework 4 - McBush, 95132013

HW04-1

HW04-2

http://icac.no-ip.org/bush/hw04/

This work homework is very interesting based on the materials such as to display texts on simple electronic drawing board. Also, after drawing the image or texts then the content can be directly save to the desired location of the file. However, I have found one thing challenging in this work and that is about saving a file. I made a mistake earlier on but somehow I manage to correct myself and now looking forward for the next assigning task.

Homework 3 - McBush, 95132013

HW03-1

Basically, this homework is the continuation from HW02-3 but it requires a bit of interaction with the mouse to move the inner circle. It is more interesting to move circles by clicking on the mouse. However, I have encountered some problems such as to know the locations of ellipse which are determined by mouseX, and mouseY. Overally, I learned a lot about interaction with mouse.

http://icac.no-ip.org/bush/hw03-1/

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HW03-2

This particular homework is focus more on how to use pmouseX, pmouseY and the buttons. I have encountered several problems about changing from color to another but later I tried my best to overcome this obstacle.

Homework 2 - McBush, 95132013

REMARKS ABOUT THIS HOMEWORK

This homework is basically about the Repetition and learn about the functions such as learn functions of setup(), draw(), loop(), random() and the nested loops. It is very interesting to learn about the random function. However, there are some difficulties such as finding the better suitable colors, and the for loops for better rectangle image.

Homework1 - McBush, 95132013

The first homework of this Interactive Media class was so fun and am so eager to learn more about the geometric painting and processing.

After searching through the geometric painting in the google, I chose my favorite picture as can be seen below:

Then I simulated the above picture using the painting tool in windows. I tried to make the exact copy of the original picture but the lines were a bit thin as can be seen from the picture below.

Finally, I used a processing program to simulate the original and the one designed with a painting tool. The processing program was so interesting to work with because there are a lot of functions which are really useful to design better geometric paintings. I used the functions such line, background, strokeWeight and color. The image can be demonstrated below.

However, working with the 'Processing Program' is a new challenge for me and it drives my attention to learn more about how to design proper images or pictures. I faced a lot of challenges at the beginning because finding the perfect functions such as background, colors, size, and many other functions require skills and practice.

Overally, I did enjoy the first class and hope to learn more about PROCESSING.