{"id":3609,"date":"2012-02-16T20:49:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T00:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2012-02-16T20:49:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T00:49:25","slug":"thursday-night-senior-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/02\/16\/thursday-night-senior-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; senior moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was a good geek out night. 3 out of the 4 guys from the UVM senior capstone project team I&#8217;m mentoring came out to the house to work on their project. The team is made up of Colin, Bryan, Casey and Chris (couldn&#8217;t make it last night) They&#8217;re making great progress. he device is going to be an interactive light sculpture that will be displayed at the ECHO Center.. and with luck.. will go with us to Bonnaroo.<\/p>\n<p>The project will combine computer controlled lighting. water and computer controlled bubbles. The team is still experimenting with the mix of all of those elements. I love watching them all think things through. Much of this is new to them. .. but they&#8217;re proving to be very resourceful . Bryan had never programmed a microcontroller. now he&#8217;s a master of controlling our fancy LED strips.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1612\/IMG_1578.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1612\/IMG_1579.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colin and Casey have never worked with pneumatics, but they&#8217;ve managed to work out how to plumb clear pvc and control solenoid valves.. pretty impressive. Here are a few test runs with no liquid<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1612\/IMG_1570.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1612\/IMG_1574.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>here are some early bubble tests with clear liquid using a small tube (photos don&#8217;t do the effect justice.. beleive me)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1612\/IMG_1583.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>here are some tests with dispersive medium (ie. we added milk to the water.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1612\/IMG_1598.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1612\/IMG_1587.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1612\/IMG_1589.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1612\/IMG_1590.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1612\/IMG_1591.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Again.. pictures don&#8217;t show how amazing this is in person.. It will be so fun to watch this project evolve&#8230; I&#8217;ll keep you all posted..<\/p>\n<p>I love working with creative people like this\u00a0 !<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was a good geek out night. 3 out of the 4 guys from the UVM senior capstone project team I&#8217;m mentoring came out to the house to work on their project. The team is made up of Colin, Bryan, Casey and Chris (couldn&#8217;t make it last night) They&#8217;re making great progress. he device &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/02\/16\/thursday-night-senior-moment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; senior moment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[412],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-senior-moment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}