dance dance revolution

i've been busily working on my final new media project for this semester so i haven't posted here for a while. i also have to keep two blogs for some classes at university so i've gotten a bit confused as to what i'm posting where. anyways, this is what i've been doing with my time:

in case it isn't obvious (which is most likely the case), i'm building a machine that's going to turn peoples physical outputs that occur during dancing into real spin paintings. it's going to be presented as an arcade machine and i'm using an arduino to program the whole electronics/robotics aspect of the project.

i've been having a really good time woodworking these past few days, but i still don't understand the whole computer programming aspect of the whole thing and i don't know if i'll ever wrap my head around it - i really wish i could though! there are just so many possibilities to put this technology to use in my future installation work!

i'm not even sure i'm going to be able to finish the whole thing on time so things are quite stressful at the moment. it'll all be over in a week though - i have to keep repeating this in my head in order to keep myself up and running.

i hope to get back to you soon with more work,

alessa.