Today's work receives a solid "meh" out of "excellent" today. I felt like I did OK work, but it seemed as though I was straining to put out my best today.
Let me explain. When I woke up this morning, I felt motivated and ready to go. I showered, got dressed, got my stuff together, and headed out. I was all ready to go and put in work...and then I got to work.
Savannah and I did a lot of conceptual work today with the other uses of the MMCB. We realized that what we are developing is a board that can be reprogrammed to do really anything. I am reminded of when a friend of mine back in high school made a "ghetto iPad" (although not a great term to use) out of an old keyboard in order to play tic-tac-toe. The whole thing was cost effective and reprogrammable, just like the MMCB. However, the MMCB is built out of an entirely new apparatus rather than using a legitimate keyboard. We decided that the triggers should not have permanent labels. If someone reprograms the board, there should not be permanent labels that could impede the ease of use with a new program.
After Savannah left, Matt and I recorded the remainder of the piano and vocal samples for the triggers. The Fischer Recital Hall was so perfect for recording. The acoustics were excellent and recording took less time than anticipated. I was a little discouraged with my performance. My voice was giving me problems and my solfege was coming out like garbage. It took too many tries for me to get a take that both Matt and I thought was good. Matt and I messed around with the samples in his Logic software for a bit, and then resolved to go home and do some work.
As for the Scratch workshop...Today the assignment was to create an About Me page in Scratch that used most of the functions. The About Me project gave me a good refresher on Scratch. I had only played around with it once ever, and this little project helped me learn both new concepts and cement old concepts in my mind. It was kind of fun to be able to put a little project about myself up; it was fun and relatively easy to design, but not so easy that it was boring. The creative aspect of the project was definitely good for an introductory project, but only would work if the entire group being addressed had at least minimal Scratch experience. I feel as though my skills are probably not on par with the skills of a lot of other people in the course, but that may be one other purpose of the project: to analyze the average level of skill that the group is at.
The workshop still is giving me a weird vibe. I am not sure if I really like this style of learning as much as I thought I would. Oh well. Maybe tomorrow will be better.
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