hi this is Catherine and we're back here
at the cs50 fair right now I'm with one
student Paul if you want to introduce
yourself hi I'm Paul I'm doing an
architecture major and I'm a second year
in grad school and yeah I would like to
show you my project which is dancing
lights yeah so so how this works is
actually I try to map the LEDs to the
Xbox Kinect sensor so if I move my hand
in in front of the Xbox Kinect sensor
the LED lights actually corresponds to
the movement and the gesture of this so
it's kind of like an interactive design
where I'm trying to find application in
architecture and to expand this this
logic yeah to something that's bigger
and more interesting yeah where'd you
get the idea for this project I guess um
this I think actually came from like one
of my projects epstein online which is
like very big light installation but
they react to like music so I'm thinking
like what if like a human or like
someone is there physically in a space
and then interacting the lights would it
be like more interesting for me yeah
so what languages did you programmed
with this and what tools from cs50
taught you how to make so I programmed
this with Arduino and processing and the
language that is used is C++ and Java
yeah so what is what a blood in like
cs50 is really useful because it taught
me how to like write the coding logic
and also learning the syntax which makes
it really easy to like transfer between
like different languages yeah and it
makes coding a lot more fun and
interesting because I understand the
basics of elementals
can I try out your project robot so this
is your light sensor right so we connect
so do I put my hand over here so my
hands here so you put over here okay wow
that's really cool project
what like ideas do you have for this in
the future like to expand on your
project I guess it is possible to make
it slightly bigger scale so can I
imagine this like in a room that is
filled with different lights and
different size and a lot bigger and if
the person is able to walk through the
lights in between the lights he's able
to interact the lights in different ways
that I imagine yeah so like it's more of
like a sensual and like lighting design
to me did you have any seus experience
before coming into this class yeah I can
mean like not knowing anything but but
just through the process and learning
every single thing it's just awesome
it's like I felt like I've know so much
more than before and like like computing
sounds like seems to be so much more
interesting than I thought it would be
like it's not just dry coding but you
can do something really interactive and
like exciting and that that's what I
love about this course
yeah I'm so glad and congratulations on
finishing the course and wrap the end of
the semester and we're all very proud of
you and you're a really cool project so
thank you so much and I'm Katherine and
this was cs50
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