Week 3 - Snow Days and Guest Displays
Classes were cancelled due to snow this week, but I still had a lot to learn with Lab 3 and our guest lecture with Jean-Michael.
I honestly couldn't wait to do Lab 3: Digital Input. I was so excited that I had to actively choose to do my other homework first to make sure I got it done.
Using the diagram above, I was able to put the circuit together almost perfectly on my first try. My only mistake was my LED was one spot too low, resulting in an incomplete circuit. Once I fixed that issue and applied the code, it worked perfectly!
After the circuit worked, I tried to see if I could follow the code. Initially, I felt like I was following it okay, but the end of the code caused some confusion.
I understood that HIGH meant on and LOW meant off for the LED, but I misunderstood the first part of both if commands. I thought that LOW was also about the LED on/off, but it was about the position of the button. Once I realized that, everything made a lot more sense.
Despite the snow, on Thursday, January 23rd, we were still able to have our Zoom meeting with Jean-Michael Celerier, the lead developer of ossia score. This meeting definitely had a lot of useful information, but I don't know to what extent quite yet. I think the information we received will be more useful once I start using the program. Programs like Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects were used as examples to explain the timeline. That information makes me hopeful because I am professionally certified in Premiere and After Effects and I am hoping the familiar timeline set up will possibly help me understand the less familiar nature of the program.
Hearing about some of the things the program does, I made connections to how I can use it to help with one of my project ideas that I am most excited about. Although my board breaking idea might be better for Project 2, it is one I am very excited about. I want the volume of someone's yell to break a board, and during Jean-Michael's presentation, he showed how the program can track the volume of someone's voice. That tool would be perfect for what I need for this project as from what I understand, I could make the board break if someone's yell reaches a certain threshold.
Honestly, I think the most useful part of the guest lecture was just meeting Jean-Michael. I know that I can reach out to him and the rest of the team via Discord, but asking for help can cause me anxiety, especially with people I haven't spoken to before. Now that I have met him, I am hoping that I will be less afraid to reach out for help from him and others in the ossia Discord.
