Minecraft is a video game, which has become widely popular. I thought I would try create a laser-cut head based loosely on Steve’s head, the main Minecraft character. The joints of the pieces did not match up perfectly, but they do build a cube. So I had the idea of adding cutout pieces of a thin sheet of magnet material, which you can easily buy from eBay. I might try painting them, which might give them a different feel.
All the laser-cut plans have been cut and assembled, and my classmate wired up the LEDs for the light-box. Rocker switches were bought for the light-box to make it aesthetically pleasing to use and the results, especially for the light-box… were astonishing!
‘Processing’ was used to draw up the data visually in all cases. The bar chart and spiral representations were manipulated with Adobe Illustrator. We would have liked
read moreI left my classmate (Stephen Dunn) to attach one of the 20 pedometers to the heart rate monitor he was putting together. We were not able to obtain data from a group of volunteers in the end, due to time, but Stephen recorded the data of his activity over 24hours (A day per volunteer would have been spent, as there is only one Arduino). The Arduino needed
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