My animation

here is a link to my animation and a description:
http://youtu.be/GqPRddYuUnA

Description:

My animation is called “The furry one”. It is set in a hairdresser scene. My scene consists of 3 characters, Hairdresser, client and my character. My character was inspired by a kitten, how a kitten can be so curious and when he finds new things he explores them and then if he likes it, he will continue to do the same action. In this case my character sees hair dropping from a hairdresser cutting a client’s hair. The character is curious of what this object is and wants to explore it. Little did he know that it tastes good to him and he grows more hair after eating each ball of fur. He soon realises that he has gotten too big to move and gets caught by the hairdresser. The hairdresser just thinks it’s a ball of fur he just cut off from the client and then sweeps my character up and throws him away in the bin with the rest of the hair.

 

My video for Rc Car !

Here is my RC Car working with my program that I created. What I've done is I've used firmata and processing together so that I can use processing instead of using arduino. Using processing there are so many more advantages than arduino because in processing you can create a screen which you can put images and create so many things. I created a maze with buttons that could control the RC Car. But the maze doesn't work at the moment because I haven't figured out the code to keep the mouse inside the white lines that I made in photoshop. My next step is to get the Right an left functions working a lot better and also get the maze working with the "get()" function in processing.
Enjoy.

My video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BDOyN72Eog&feature=youtu.be

My 200 words for Project two.

RC Arduino

I’ve named my project RC Arduino because it’s an RC car powered by an arduino, go figure. I’ve made a program that can control the RC Car’s movements with button on the screen. Each button represents a movement for the Car, so the top button make the car go forward and the left button makes the car go left so on and so on. The Program has a maze built into it so that it’s not as simple as you thought with four easy buttons to press but now you have to navigate your way through the maze to control the car. This project has almost turned into a game. I have achieved my goals that I’d set for the project, which was to create a program that could control the RC Car via the computer and this time I need to make my project more functional and more presentable. RC Arduino is a functional RC Car that anyone can control and is really fun to play with, but it has a down side which is my Bluetooth chip didn’t arrive in the mail yet so now I have to buy an extension cable so my RC Car go move around more rather than using the standard USB cable.  

My four pictures and breadboard

 Here are some images of my final project! And also the breadboard.

update and problems..

Just had my RC Car to work with the program! But could only control the backward and left function on the car... This is an indication of a breadboard problem... Me wiring it up wrong... Also now im getting an error of "NullpointerException". Even though it was working fine before.

Alright just an add on I've fix the NullPointerException now it just wiring the board correctly then getting the maze to work.

Update

Here is just an update on my last project for 251. Creating an application to run my Rc Car via a maze in processing.

Im stuck with an error atm :

IllegalAccssError:
Exception in thread "Animation Thread" java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access class processing.core.PApplet$RegisteredMethods from class cc.arduino.Arduino$SerialProxy

at cc.arduino.Arduino$SerialProxy.<init>(Arduino.java:119)
at cc.arduino.Arduino.<init>(Arduino.java:168)
at code2_251.setup(code2_251.java:42)
at processing.core.PApplet.handleDraw(PApplet.java:2117)
at processing.core.PGraphicsJava2D.requestDraw(PGraphicsJava2D.java:193)
at processing.core.PApplet.run(PApplet.java:2020)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

But otherwise I have finished the maze: (don'y worry about the erased circle, just did that so it wouldn't show in my application since i've written ellipse in my code. These were just for reference)

Next step is to surpass this error and learn how to use the get() function so I can make the mouse avoid the white walls or stay inside them..

Almost done client and hairdresser stuffs

Progression, client in chair

trying to hook up RC Car to arduino..

somehow this is confusing me at the moment... hooking up the RC to arduino..
I've come up with 3 methods and only one way works but not the way I want it to.

My background for my program so far..

It simple at the moment, need to change it or maybe add arrows instead of plain circles...

My new RC Car.

Here is my upgraded RC Car for project two! This RC Car is still light dependent and the next step is to create a trailer for the RC Car so I can attach the P.O.V device to the back of it. Then have to program the P.O.V to say whatever I want.

Also a link for it working.. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw2b5XB8UmY&feature=youtu.be