BEAUTIFUL

http://officesnapshots.com/2012/07/16/pixar-headquarters-and-the-legacy-of-steve-jobs/

Future office building, just saying.

Monsters U Technology

http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/24/the-making-of-pixars-latest-technological-marvel-monsters-university/

So if you go through these different articles, it's got so many cool things about the different things that Pixar did to create Monsters University and the short that goes along with it.

Pixar and their technology and their storytelling all just amaze me. Nothing is even close to what they do. End of story.

Geri's Game

Agh! Found a link to my fave Pixar short!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYRC7g2ICg

Christmas List?

I usually don't make these, but my mom needs one and some are tech related, so cool man.
I arranged them in a sort of price order to the best of my knowledge. 

1. A new sketchpad. 

I ran out of space in my other 3...whoops.

2. Ratatouille, Tangled, Alice in Wonderland (the original cartoon), or the Hunchback of Notre Dame on DVD 

I've been meaning to complete my collection, at least of the Pixar movies, and no matter how many times my dad says we do, we do not own Ratatouille.

3. Burning Hogwarts Sweatshirt 

http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/PopCulture/Movies/HarryPotter/Harry+Potter+Burning+Hogwarts+Girls+Pullover+Top-10226866.jsp

4. Alice in Wonderland sweatshirt 

http://search.hottopic.com/search?p=Q&ts=custom&lbc=hottopic&w=alice%20in%20wonderland%20sweatshirt

5. Slytherin sweatpants

House pride-and comfort! I'm sure they have them for cheaper somewhere, but like bro these are great.

http://www.harrypottershop.com/product/slytherin+crest+black+lounge+pants+hpbdpj05.do?sortby=ourPicks&refType=&from=fn


6. A TARDIS onesie. 

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/12df/


7. A new phone case (I love Kate Spade, but that's only if you're feeling particularly generous) 

http://www.katespade.com/accessories-tech/ks-accessories-tech,en_US,sc.html


8. Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making More Magic Real 

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/walt-disney-imagineering-the-imagineers/1120423343?ean=9781423107668

Is this not the most beautiful book you've ever seen? Like, just looking at it I teared up.


9. White high top Converse


10. An Arduino kit! 

http://www.amazon.com/Arduino-Ultimate-Starter-page-Instruction/dp/B00BT0NDB8/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1418151359&sr=1-1&keywords=arduino&pebp=1418151362125

Arduinos are my babies. I want to actually own one so maybe I can finally do all those projects I came up with.


11. A nice camera 

Definitely to share with the family. I've heard CanonT3I and Nikon 3200 are pretty good starter cameras.

So there is my Christmas list, however, I'd be happy with some tomato basil soup from La Madeleine and a nice hug. 

RAD

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/08/disney-invents-touchscreen-that-lets-you-feel-textures/

Disney is great...nuff said.

Verizon, you're doing it wrong.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/05/how-verizon-tests-and-tortures-every-phone-before-hitting-its-ne/

I mean this is the BORING option-I think it would be alot more fun to pay people to throw phones.

Cool Baby Arduino Kits

Look at these cool little Arduino kits! You can use them to build cute little touch screen watches and play Flappy Bird!


http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/03/superduino-is-a-tiny-arduino-board-with-a-built-in-touchscreen/

I failed Transfiguration...

Have you ever wanted to actually attend Hogwarts? Wellll you can do it here! You get a super cool letter of acceptance and everything. 

www.hogwartsishere.com

Mini Project

I've decided 2 things:

1. I'm very indecisive...

2. I want to make a TARDIS now-I found a link to one on thingiverse and I think it would be super cool to print.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:124033/#files

I think it would be so cool to put Arduino powered lights inside. Maybe also make a button so that it'll make sounds or play the theme song! (the old one, not Capaldi's new one)

Mini  3D printing  project yay!

Changing My Project?

Less of a change, more of an expansion, but I'm altering my project abit. Instead of making the show music on my Arduino, I'm going to make a 3D printed music box with an Arduino inside. Hopefully I can get it to play cute music.

Re-imaging

Word to the wise (so, not me...):

If you re-image your computer, make sure you've changed your passcode recently...as in less than a year ago...

I got locked out of everything. Literally. So trying to do homework was sort of interesting...(and traumatic, but you know).

arduiNO

This thing isn't working and it's quite frustrating. More later.

More Cool Arduino Music

Super Mario Bros theme:

http://youtu.be/odkb1mam7Gw?list=UUQUzaTpiWieLH9PDj9Zi9PA

My Heart Will Go On:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bINIJgBaFh0&list=UUQUzaTpiWieLH9PDj9Zi9PA&index=9

NYANNYANNYAN

http://youtu.be/8GCUAdg03Tg

"He's A Pirate" from Pirates of the Caribbean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8rc7bVaug8

StARDUINO WARS...well, I tried...

So, this is going to happen tomorrow somehow. Enjoy.

http://youtu.be/mBiq-eXGxb0

Love/Hate Relationships and Other News

So, sometimes, my Arduino loves to work and play music and do cool things. But other times, today being one of them, the little booger decides to not work. Or it'll work, give me hope of progress, then STOP WORKING AGAIN. It's a fickle device that I am not happy with at the moment. Hopefully tomorrow we'll have more success.

Like literally dude...you worked once, then just decided not to? I guess Mary Had A Little Lamb just wasn't good enough for ya.

Ser Mi ARDUINO

So, scratch the Maya stuff-I'm doing a new project. It's called.....(wait for it)................................................

SER MI ARDUINO

Named of course, after our marching band show, Ser Mi Amor. (Clever, huh?)

Basically I'm programming arduinos to play our marching show. It'll be a huge 8-bit of the show, and it'll be FREAKING AWESOME.

The biggest problem I've already seen in the programming is the order of the coding system for the notes. My basic plan right now is to assign a more efficient and understandable coding system to the notes. I'll code the arduino program to basically follow the notes on a piano keyboard. Notes follow a pattern of A-G, repeating for every octave. There are about 7 octaves on a keyboard. So for example, an A in the 5th octave would be A5.

Then the tricky part comes in-sharps and flats. Sharps and flats are basically notes that are half way between two of the main notes. Sharps are above the given note and flats are below. So, basically an A sharp is
halfway between A and B. These will probably be assigned letters starting with Z.

http://www.piano-keyboard-guide.com/images/88-key-piano-keyboard-layout.jpg

The challenge in all this is finding the correct frequencies to add into the coding system, but hey, Google's pretty great for these things.

So anyway, excuse my intense musical nerd moment, but I'm pretty sure this will be the coolest thing ever, especially if I could find enough arduinos for all the different parts in the ensemble.

I'm Learning Maya

I've been finding literal TONS of Maya tutorials for beginners, which makes me super happy. This one has a guy with a funny voice, so I like it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAcQK217YvE

Character Modeling starts Monday! 

grassLAND

We took the Mensa brain workout today, and I got a 60%. I'll assume that means I'm above average intelligence.
Anyway, here's a link if you would also like to hurt your brain and confuse yourself.
www.mensa.org/workout