Category: Projects

  • Macropad, Custom Keyboard Using Arduino/Seeeduino XIAO

    Long story short, I have wandered far into the rabbit hole of custom and mechanical keyboards, and, while I really enjoy some of the compact keyboard layouts, I did find myself missing some of the extra keys in a full keyboard. Armed with a 3D printer and an old mechanical keyboard that I could cannibalize…

  • JW Media Player Clickable Transcript

    Context: This code controls the media player (http://www.jwplayer.com/) via javascript API.  The inspiration/idea came from Philip Hutchinson’s Easy Captions code (http://pipwerks.com/2010/06/07/for-your-reading-pleasure-easycaptions/) which provides an incredibly elegant solution to captions/transcripts embedded as html (instead of being dynamically loaded). This code basically serves as a remote control to find a specific spot of a video or audio file…

  • ICON Lab move, VOIP phone logistics, Getting the new building connected

    What’s keeping me busy this week? Finalizing the Immersive Construction Lab (ICON Lab) move details Transitioning phone service to VOIP in preparation to the move Getting equipment ready for Comcast to connect the new building (Building 661) Finalizing the Immersive Construction Lab (ICON Lab) move details We had our second meeting yesterday with Christie Digital…

  • CBEI and long overdue update

    My last post was January 2013 when I started working at my, then, new job at the EEB Hub. A lot has happened since. I have been here for 1.5 years and I can honestly say I could not have predicted that this job would shape into what it has become. First of all, we…

  • Multicam editing in Premiere Pro CS6 and its many quirks

    So we (World Campus Learning Design Multimedia Specialists: Brian Strauss, Pete Warren, and myself) went on a very interesting video shoot recently. This was for a psychology class modeling some simulated psychotherapy sessions; we were able to get students from the Penn State theater department to do an excellent job as patients and therapists. This…

  • CRIMJ 450W: Racial Percentages, Version 2

    The instructor requested some changes, so we revamped the look/feel as well as the functionality of this short self-assessment exercise. Original can be found at CRIMJ 450w Racial Percentages, Version 1. There’s been a change in Instructional Designer for the course, so now it’s Kristin Bittner. Feature added: Sliders instead of dropdown menus. Instead of…

  • Jar of Life – v. 0.2

    BA321 Spring 2009 ID: Lynne Johnson Issues/Lessons: Use smaller images when starting the Flash Project – compressing each image (under Library -> Properties for each bitmap) was time consuming and did not yield the best results.  I was still able to compress the swf down to 1.2MB from 4MB. The AS3 Garbage Collector is finicky…

  • Psych243, sp09, Modern View of Learning, GIF

    Animated GIF for Psych243 ID: Dong Li

  • Psych243, sp09, Traditional View of Learning

    FLV to Animated GIF conversion The original FLV was 1.5MB and was a very simple animation with no audio. It was produced with “Moyea Software” program. At some point, the FLV player wrapper got lost and we got complaints that it wasn’t working, so we decided to convert it to the simplest technology that will…

  • Psych 256, sp09, Short Term Memory, v. 0.1

    ID: Julie Laubach Concept: Jin Sung An and Brian Strauss Programmer/Designer: Jin Sung An Version: 0.1 (proof of concept, draft) Design Justification: The boxes were re-positioned so that the reader/student would start at the “Central Executive” box when reading up/down OR left/right. Some design cues/graphics are re-used from other animations in the same course for…