User:0900998

stephanie nieuwenhuisen // mail@stephanienieuwenhuisen.nl

-Image1: Any picture that fits under the title “ the moment I knew what I wanted to do” there is not one particular moment for me that made me know what i wanted to do; i still don't know exactly what i want to do. things that pushed me into a direction are exhibitions like dismaland, street art (in for exambple berlin), and several museum visits in different countries

-Image 2: What do you make? (Tell us in one image and three sentences about creative background)

as a graphic designer i generally prefer to make physical items like printed objects like books and posters. i prefer to see my practice more widely and also like to expand it to other practices, like photography, fine arts and audiovisual.

-Image 3: What is your topic of interest? Explain a past/current topic or what you wish to explore)

at the moment i am particularly interested in street art/contemporary art. i think the message they usually try to bring across is important and often presented in a clever way to have more impact

-Image 4: What is your medium? (Explain what materials and tools you wish to use)

i don't have one specific tool or material i use; i like to work with things i am not (yet) familiar with. for this practice i hope to use more electronic and mechanical materials/tools to familiarise myself with circuits in order to be able to for example create moving objects that make sounds.

circuit making class

keep-your-kid-in-bed-device

I want to create a device that keeps children from going out of bed at night.
The device will work as following; when a child steps out of bed, a motionsensor/touch sensor will send a trigger to the device.
Through the speaker the monster will warn the child in various ways that it should stay in bed; or else..
The eyes will light up and it will slightly move forward to scare the child back in bed.
It can also make sleeping sounds and register sound and parents could tell their child 'not to wake up the monster'



For the execution i will need;
- Toy car+remote
- Circuit or arduino
- Speaker
- Motion sensor/touch sensor(makeymakey?)
- Hairy fabric/a monster to put on the toy car
- LEDS as eyes

process > turn the device more into something playful

test with a light sensor, next step test with pir motion sensor


soldering plan with 4 pir sensors; the car/monster has a motion sensor on each side and will try to follow/turn towards the direction of the triggered sensor

re-soldering the connections on the remote with longer wires. unfortunately i didn't buy the female jumper cables for the pir-connections.
tried endlessly to solder them instead but it's just impossible. hope to be able to get them before the weekend!
using the posca markers for colourcoding the wires


trying to figure out how to code; it's starting to make more sense now!

connecting the pir sensors and burning the circuit

I was able to get the cables today, but unfortunately i burned the circuit of the controller by attaching a 9v instead of 2x 1,5v

new car

just got a new car, i hope i'm able to connect and get everything working in time

presentation

i didn't know the arduino could operate without the cable, so while doing the presentation i taped it onto the car with a 9 volt block so it could ride without the computer attached.

what i would do if i had more time

- obviously the project is only finished on the technical side.
- i would want to make a cover for the car, in the shape of a monster so the monster would follow you/you can play with it.
- the technical part should be built a bit better, with longer wires so it wouldnt be so hard to connect everything and keep it in the shape it needs for the pir sensors to stay in place without breaking anything.

- the code needs more finetuning so the car will drive shorter bits; i didn't have time for this yet before the presentation because i managed to make it work quite late

 sketch of the monster

idea of the material i could use for the monster. the pir sensors would function as eyes

what i learned from the project

- i didn't know a lot about making circuits yet; i understand the theory better now
- coding the arduino is quite hard. i will need to follow a lot more tutorials in order to understand what i'm actually changing or what i need to make something work
- never to connect a battery blindly to a circuit ;)
- soldering electronics securely is important

even though i didn't manage to finish the project in time, i had a lot of fun learning about it and creating it and i'm looking forward to follow digital crafts next year!