Why WordPress

Hello everyone ,

Here is a list with reasons why I picked WordPress as a platform to save my ideas/work

• I have access anytime,anywhere just connected to the internet , even on my phone ,
• I can save each individual idea in is own post,
• I’m not having on my notebook Word documents to fill my HDD,
• I can share my work with other people and get a tip/advice,
• I am saving trees because I am not using paper .

Programming for the Visual Art with Processing

Introduction

I’ve been set a task to create a processing visual representation of the traffic lights.

Research

• I’ve research and I’ve seen most of the car traffic lights are circular and the pedestrian lighters
• The pedestrian lighters have most of the time a hand or a man sitting/walking to show us when is the right time to cross the street/sit
• Other traffic lights have a timer to show us how long we have left to cross the street
• The order of the traffic lights is : Red , Red and Amber , Green , Amber
• The RGB of the colors are : (45,201,55) , (231,180,22) , (204,50,50)
• Here are some examples of traffic lights from all around the world

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Planning

• I am thinking to create a special kind of traffic lights , but first I need to look for some .PNG images to make it easier and more interactive .
• I will try to make a rectangle traffic lights with some colored circles in the middle of each color and I’ll see how can I add some pictures to make it even easier for young people to understand it
• Then try to make everything interactive and make them work interactive

Development for the coding task

I’ve give it couple of tries then I finally got to a decent and stable point of my traffic lights

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I kinda mixed the traffic lights , the pedestrian ones with the car ones but I just want to make it circular to look like a real light and then I went to be a bit more challenging for me to make it with a picture in … I think I could add a car as well .

Coding Task Finished

Programming with Python

Introduction

I’ve been tasked to create a traffic lights sequence this time in Python , based on text and interactivity .

Research

• Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming.
• Python features a dynamic type system and automatic memory management.
• Support multiple programming paradigms,including object-oriented , imperative,functional and procedural , and has a large and comprehensive standard library.
• Has IDLE[integrated development environment]

Planning

• First I have to look for some tutorials to have an basic idea how the functions/variables/commands are over there
• Then I need to find the right sequence of code to write and to sort them in the right order
• I am trying to keep everything inside of Python and IDLE because most of the tutorials use Notepad++ or stuff like that
• I’ll ask some of my colleague which have an idea of how to use Python for some help
• In the worst scenario in case I can’t do any if these , I’ve seen there is a Python manuals

Development

• It wasn’t a good idea to make everything I write in Python to run it with Command Promt
• Then it needs some modifications because it shows always “please press enter…”

Coding Task Finished

I just had to take the command out of the loop .

Programming on Raspberry PI

Task:

• Connect LED’s to a Raspberry Pi (or use the traffic light ‘stick’) and write a traffic light program.

Research :

To make this works we would need the following :

• A Raspberry PI
• A power supply
• A Micro SD card to install you’r operating system on
• A set of traffic lights
• A USB mouse and keyboard
• A HDMI display and cable
• Python [IDLE]

Development :

I found a code for traffic lights on Raspberry PI which looks like that :

And I’ve been explained to arrange the Traffic Light Stick on the right pin’s (GPIO) on the Raspberry PI after this example :

Coding Task Finished:

Traffic Lights Sequence on Raspberry PI

Processing Map function

Introduction

Create programs in Processing that use the map() and translate() functions. The programs you write should have a creative / expressive outcome .

Research:

This is a rough description of the code I have to create for today …. to upload a picture into processing then to make curtains to be drawn.

Development :

Code Task Finished:

After few try , I managed and I finished the code with the map function and it still has an error , the curtain come from the right hand side to the left , instead from the left to the right …. but at least the code is done

Proof of code working

Importing Audio Files

Introduction

I have to import audio into Processing (and/or Python) and add this to your traffic light program.

Research

• To import audio into Processing I will need to import a library named Minim [this is the version with less bugs]

Development

In here I just have to combine the code with the traffic light[have a look at the top of the page to see the traffic lights code] ,  and I’ve researched about a new code to import audio files into the processing  that will look like

Code Task Finished

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and a video with the file working will be uploaded on YouTube soon !

This will lead to my project of creating a 2D game