Lucas, at one point in the class you said that we could just type up a bunch about our experience and it could count for credit because after all this is a writing course. I am freaking out right now because I’m not sure where I stand in this class and I would really really like to pass! I am not one to lie nor fabricate the truth and I hope you read this post you will understand that and have some mercy on my soul. If I wanted to cheat or take the easy way out I would have moved the Retro pi in the I hub to a separate television screen and passed it off as mine, but thats not the person I am and right about now Im starting to regret it. Initially when presented with the idea to take a raspberry pi assessment or to do something with it I thought it was a no brainer to take the assessment, but after have dosed off one class when present with the choice I decided to do something with the pi… how hard could it be?? Well hold on, because this is where the shit show begins. As for how hard could it be, I have no idea, I dont think that bad but I was never able to get there. There was always something in my way. I decided to go balls to wall and make this my best assignment yet on saturday, and so Sunday I drive to the I hub to get started woking on it and not in accordance to apple maps, the I hub is closed on sundays and so I go back after my class on monday and get started. Things aren’t bad at this point, I download NOOBS and think of ideas which took me about an hour and a half and then I go to your class. I have other exams and a project to work on so I dont get to work on it tuesday, but after my exam on wednesday I sprint back to the I hub (its 5:10pm at this point) to see if you can give me any assistance, but by the time i get there its too late. Luckily the student Ryan Moots allows me to borrow his pi so I can work on it. I leave for Rome with my family Thursday morning at 7, I still need to pack and get my things in order, but I go home and try to work on this Pi anyways… This is where shit gets bad.. I dont have a usb keyboard…. I naturally hit google and youtube looking for anyways to use my laptop keyboard for the pi but everything looks very complicated or dangerous to my computer so I decide to go to Rome and figure it out there. When I get to Rome and check in at the front desk I see that they have a USB keyboard and I get really excited. After exploring Rome for a bit we come home around 3pm est. and every body gets ready for bed. I start to get started on this assignment and realize I forgot an HDMI chord. The TV in our room doesnt have one, the tv in the lobby doest have one and the front desk is closed… Regardless, my grade is on the line and is driving me to do some desperate things. At this point my only hope is to convert my computer into a raspberry Pi. I start watching youtube videos telling me to use PuTTY and word press to re-write the code, My mom is screaming at me to go to bed because we have tours at 1:00 AM est. Naturally the anxiety hits me really hard and I stoop even lower. I wait till my moms asleep and I break into the front office of the hotel as a last resort. (not lying) to be honest its more trespassing than breaking in, but I was the only one there and clearly not supposed to be there, the front dest lady just forgot to lock it. but regardless, the monitor they use is one of dumb ones with the computer built into it. So after a good 5-7 hours of attempting to get anything done on this pi I am finally admitting defeat and I hope this post can make up for the writing component at least. I can post photos of this experience if that would help in any way.

I was pleasantly surprised with how the 3D print came out. In the process of creating the 3D print I had measured the diameter of the vile to extreme precision and was very excited to have a solution to the problems I was facing. After receiving some help on the actual 3d printing, when sending it to the 3d printer the machine had scaled my project from inches to millimeters… No big deal I thought, I multiplied the project by the conversion factor and was on my way. When I finally got my project I realized that had not fixed my problem and the actual holder was too small.. luckily I had a vial on me when I picked up the project and when I flipped the vial upside down it was a perfect fit! This was not exactly what I had intended, but perfectly solved my problem! So instead of wasting more time and resources I took it home and put that bad boy to work! Honestly I like the way it looks now better than the original design anyways.

I know this post is super late, buts since I had to do it anyways, I figured pennies on the dollar wasn’t so bad… When I started to think about how I was going to make a practical solution to my problem ( the chord on my blowdryer being all over the counter) I knocked over some of my cologne vials and realized the only practical solution to my hair dryer chord is for me to stop being lazy and just put it away.. As for the issues with my cologne, that could be solved with the easiest print of all time and would actually solve an issue I have. So thats what I did. I measured my vails with calipers and created a simple block with the appropriate holes that would eliminate the possibility of me knocking all of them over when I grab one out of my cabinet.

As my partner Bryce had mentioned, this project was not a great time. The work we did building and testing the project was quite enjoyable and rewarding, but just getting to that point was quite a pain. We spent 2 hours alone trying to transfer the project over and finally decided to give up and try something else in the morning. By the grace of god I was able to transfer all the work Bryce had done in the morning, and we were able to finish and test it. The assets used are listed in the Assets – Purpose format.

Demon – The two dancing demons at the entrance of the maze and flaming walls 

FreeMountain – the giant mountain backdrop 

Sandstone Wall Construction Kit – The sandstone wall outline of maze 

Standard assets – FP controller, water, grass

Attached is my partner Bryce’s blog which contains the pictures and video of our project

Virtual Reality Project (Journal Entry 12)

Im going to be completely honest…. I didn’t try working on this assignment in class. After seeing you complete the bowler hat and lamp shade in less than a minute apiece I didn’t think that this would be a difficult assignment…. but I was wrong. I didn’t even get to the bowler hat.. I tried following along with the lamp shade tutorial, but at step 2 “click attached canvas” there wasn’t an “attached canvas” button for me. I tried following along with just the regular “canvas” button but I couldn’t get the squiggly tool to work and thats where I gave up and accepted my fate..

An issue I have is my bathroom counter is cluttered with my hair dryer, brush, product, and other miscellaneous items. It would be cool to have a 3D printed “block”, for lack of better words, that would hide the cord to the dryer and tidy up the area.

(video is attached through canvas)

1 PVC Pipe

2 Egg

3 Floppy disk

4 Spoon

5 bowler hat

6 flask

7 aviators

Group G is coming along well. We are making a text based game where the objective is to escape a haunted house. So far we have completed the frame work for the game and just need to add in more artwork and “quests” to further improve the user experience. Everyone in the group has more or less taken on a role for themselves and things appear to be moving seamlessly. The specific role I’ve taken is scribe and organizer. Group G is very ambitious and full of fantastic ideas, but sometimes they need to reeled in a bit and have a more focused way of putting their ideas into creation. Specifically I take the ideas everyone has and create an outline of what the group has thought up. From there we fill in the blanks and, voilà, we have a clearly defined goal on how to build our app.

I wasn’t in class on Wednesday 5/22 due to family circumstances, but I attempted to use app inventor on my own. We were introduced to app inventor the Monday prior and although we quick introduction I still had a lot of trouble doing anything on app inventor. Despite my trouble with app inventor I struggled the most just getting to the actual application. I followed to into steps in the “getting started” link which had me download something leading to a 20 minute installation, my computer restarting, and me back at square one. At this point I’m already frustrated but little did I know the real frustration was yet to begin. I finally find out how access app inventor and try to create a random number generator or something like the magic 8 ball. I thought these would be simple projects as I do have a bit of experience coding, but that was not the case.

My name is John-Henry Moran, I’m a 22 year old senior majoring in actuarial science (it’s like a combination between math, statistics, and risk management). Putting my interest and hobbies out in public is a little weird for me, but here goes nothing… My favorite hobby of all time is drinking, cliche, but it is what is. Almost every Friday night you can find me at Township drinking my gin and tonic and booling with the boys. My other hobbies consist of golfing (capital city is the best course in town, I will fight you over this), traveling, video games, talking (phycology, philosophy, finance, and religion I find the most entertaining), and anything else that helps me make the best of another day! Finally, in fulfillment of the assignment heres a picture.