Jamie's Mad Scientist Lab

Posts By: Jamie

Crypto Drama: The Language of Light

“I won’t commit!!!” That’s all I keep hearing in my head and I’m trying to beat it down with a stick. Nothing strikes fear in my bones more than committing to an idea I’ve only had a short time to […]

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The Devil’s Code

The thing I’ve been thinking about most recently in regards to my projects for ITP is how to bring in storytelling. That is my first love and the reason I came to ITP. I want to marry storytelling and filmmaking […]

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Merry Midterm Fortunes

For the most part,  the serial communication labs from both last week and this week worked for me without too much of a hitch, but those involved connecting the Arduino to p5.js. For the midterm project, I was assigned to work […]

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Nightmare Before the Rainbow

I have always had a thing for spirals… And Tim Burton. Whenever I see a twirling font or an extravagant trim to a metal gate, I think of him. I’d like to believe my predilection came from myself, but I […]

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Serial Explosion

On one hand, I feel like on a rudimentary, logical basis, I understand serial communication, but after the labs and looking over the quiz, I’m not so sure. The labs took a lot more time than expected. The circuitry set […]

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Quincy Warhol

The past week my focus has been all about Java Script. In addition to my usual work for ICM, I began Code Academy tutorials and watched numerous amusing videos by the hilarious Dan Schiffman. So, not surprisingly, when the assignment […]

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What a drag Hackathon

This marks the first hackathon I have ever taken part in – exciting and terrifying all at once. Yan Zhao and I were paired up and given the task to build a simple application with a button on the Arduino […]

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The Flip Side

This assignment terrified me a bit. I have been thinking about how to brand myself during and post ITP for a while now. My background as a writer, filmmaker and director still earns me money and my years spent on […]

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Total Recode

This week I revisited “Don’t eat the poo!” with an eye at cleaning up the code, but I also wanted to change a few images. For one thing, I feared the pink color mixed with a tongue made it look […]

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The Big Box of Death…and Circuitry

There were many labs this week that helped me better understand programming the Arduino. The first was using photosensors to control the sound out of a speaker. After spending much time using the photosensor last week, it was the type […]

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