14 Mar, 2021
Light week this week. Spent most of my side project time continuing my Experimental JavaScript course.
I completed a lesson using PIXI.js to play with WebGL. See demo of lesson over at https://tiny.kevinandersen.dk/project3/.
I also completed a lesson using matter.js to play with physics. See demo of lesson over at https://tiny.kevinandersen.dk/project2/.
As usual, I also wrote weekly tweets for @SunOfDenmark. I realized that this is the second to last week before going over to standard time, which ends the stream of tweets.
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7 Mar, 2021
Project Caramel I received components for Project Caramel this week:
STM32F411 Nucleo board (but ended up using a pyboard running MicroPython instead) Passive components (resistors, caps, diodes) LM358 opamp I followed a microphone amplifier guide and used MicroPython’s built-in ADC module.
Breadboard amplifier circuit and piezo disk connected to pyboard
I’m getting readouts, but it seems the amplifier circuit needs more work. For some reason there’s a high “ambient” value (noise?
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28 Feb, 2021
I spent most of my spare time this week working on this site - and publishing it! Also wrote more project pages, like Sun of Denmark and Wall Art.
I should have received components for Project Caramel, but since that didn’t happen there will not be any progress on that project this week.
Project Cocoa Instead, I started Project Cocoa. I thought the name would be appropriate since the idea is to design a heater cover for friends of mine that renovated their apartment recently.
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21 Feb, 2021
First week with this new site. I’ve spent a couple of evenings setting up the site, my github repo, and modifying the site theme and writing these articles.
Project Caramel The first side project I want to start writing about is Project Caramel. Why Caramel? Working on confidential projects in my dayjob, I’m used to working with codenames. Besides being a fun way to reference what you’re working on, I think it gives freedom to allow the thing you’re working on to develop independently of it’s name.
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17 Feb, 2021
Hi, welcome, you made it. And since that’s the case, so did I! I’m Kevin, and I work as an Interaction Designer at LEGO.
This isn’t my portfolio. This is where I display and blog about my side projects. Since leaving the Scratch Team and the Media Lab last summer to go back to Denmark, I miss being part of a community that’s interested in the intersection between art, design, and technology.
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