Longboard, processing, java and ...

Okay,

So first of all I kind of finished my Longboard! Aurora still had this beauty lying around at her parents house:

She told me I could use it to test the longboard until I have some money to buy my own trucks and wheels! So now I just took these:

So I drilled some holes where I thought they needed to be and I screwed on the Back wheels:

and the Front wheels:

So now it was time to test it, First a picture of the longboard as it isn't used, but enjoying it's first sunlight!

So then I had to test it and take pictures of course:

So all in all it kind of worked well. The wheels aren't really good so with one stroke you'll get about 10 meters, but it works well on the tarmac, really smooth. The deck bends a little too much, if you bounce a little the deck can hit the ground.... So I hope Aurora can maybe use it, maybe with some slight adjustments, like making it shorter...

So Now I need to wait till I have some Money and I can buy some wheels!!!! :)

I also progressed with Processing, though not really showable... I learned how to put text in a sketch and how to transform stuff... but I haven't really used it in an experiment, So I'll get back to that.

And I also found the sketch that got me into Processing in the first place:

Sketch site (You can chose the resolution!)

This guy has an awesome collection of sketches that are really good, and he also shows the source code so I hope I will learn a lot from him :)

I also started to learn Java, but again I can't show anything yet since the first Chapter was about why Java was developed, how it works and to make a little program that says "Hello World!" in Command prompt.... So that isn't really something to show off... but maybe later I will be able to show some stuff!

In the last Post I said that I wanted to write down some lessons that I learned about Designing, or which might help me, and to make awesome posters of these.... But I went ahead and I made a poster about this blog. The main thing that I wanted to be able to do with Arduino was to kind of create things that acted or seemed alive. So my first Poster is to remind me about that:

And that was it for this time,

Cheers!

frank