John Choi

14 Jan 2015

1)  BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO MYSELF:
My name is John Choi and I love building robots and video games!  I began learning simple game development a good while ago, and so I happen to know a lot of stuff on how to make games (art, programming, and the like).  I also began building robots about a year and a half ago, so I also happen to know quite a bit about Arduinos, servomotors, and the like.  I have but one objective for this course: build awesome stuff!

2)  A LINK TO MY TWITTER ACCOUNT:
https://twitter.com/johnchoi313

3)  A LINK TO MY GITHUB ACCOUNT:
https://github.com/johnchoi313

4)  CATEGORIZED AS “01-introduction”

5)  A DOCUMENTATION TO ONE OF MY PRIOR PROJECTS:
 Speaking of robots, here’s a funny little robot I built about a year ago:


Proudly made with the following:

HARDWARE:
-Samsung Galaxy S3
-HC-06 Bluetooth Module
-3 Standard Analog Servos
-2 Micro Analog Servos
-3D printed parts
-9V batteries
-Arduino
-Wires

SOFTWARE:
-Android SDK
-Processing 2.0.1
-Autodesk Maya
-Arduino
-GIMP

I think what I did successfully was combining fancy DIY technology with the latest in culture trends.  What was lacking is that the robot can sing only one song and every motion is hardcoded, rather than procedural.

By the way, here’s an image of a concept sketch:concept