jay's Recent Projects

neri birthday

Happy Birthday Neri Use the arrow keys to try to catch all the love drops. the song is by my brother.

drawdio

draw an instrument with the pencil then pick up the hand to play the instrument (the closer you are to the pencil the higher the pitch will be.) note: the demo doesn't work the same as real drawdio, it's just an approximation. this is based on a prorject I am working on. See http://drawdio.com for more info.

Happy Birthday Joel

Happy Birthday Joel! We hope you enjoy this interactive jazzercise birthday card. Love, Jay, Jodi, and Bau

urban explor demo

this is an alpha version of a virtual demo of my thesis project. i will build this in physical hardware next month. You can read more about it here http://media.mit.edu/~silver/thesis/proposal_jay.pdf INSTRUCTIONS Drag out and connect inputs (W, S, H, L) to outputs (colored light, music). This makes a sensor that can sense sound, human motion, light or wind, and convert it to light or sound. Then bring one of the signals (human, sound, wind) close to the sensors by dragging it nearby with the mouse. PARTS Inputs (sensors) - wind - sound - human motion - light Ouputs - colored light - sound FUTURE DIRECTIONS What other toolkits could be built in Scratch?

3 Trampoline

INSTRUCTIONS Click the Green flag to start. Press arrow keys to do tricks. Each arrow key triggers a different trick. HOW I MADE THIS * The trampoline uses the fisheye effect to make it look like it is bending whenever it senses the girl * I blurred the background in Photoshop to make the foreground stand out

6 GlobalWarming

Driving Game - How fast should you go to win? INSTRUCTIONS Use the arrow keys: up - speed up, down - slow down left - go left to stay on the road right - go right to stay on the road THOUGHTS When I made this project, I was thinking about what was really important to me. One thing that really makes my life great is riding my bicycle. I often get mad when I'm driving a car. So my love of bicycles inspired me to make a statement.

2 GravityBlocks

Kind of like blocks in the real world but more bouncy -- and when you scream at them they fall down. INSTRUCTIONS Regular mode: Drag and drop blocks Make noise: Clap or scream to shake all the blocks (this won't work online) HOW I MADE THIS This project uses gravity. The building blocks fall down until they are touching the hot-pink color. They fall faster and faster once you let them go. If they hit hard enough, they make a sound. MORE IDEAS I would like to change the blocks into everyday real objects of some sort....then see what else comes to my mind.

5 BreakDance

I'm a b-boy and this is practically the first Scratch project I ever made. INSTRUCTIONS Click the boombox and then the other icons at the top of the screen. HOW I MADE THIS The boombox makes a beat and *broadcasts* messages to the dancer. The dancer responds by moving and whirling. I took pictures of myself doing k-kicks and ninja freezes and cut them out in photoshop. Then I made it so that when you click the icons at the top, the dancer busts out with a phat move. MORE IDEAS It would be fun to add other dancers that respond to the broadcasts. Then there'd be lots of dancers at the same time.

Drishya Example

INSTRUCTIONS * Use arrow keys to move the boy * Press space to spin * Touch the drum to make a sound * Touch the abacus to change locations ABOUT I am working on a local version of the image library (with Dipti and Evelyn) for Karnataka. This is an example of a project using the images. MORE IDEAS It's fun for me to create interactive environments. I like to change the costumes and then decide which buttons will make what happen.

happy birthday beau

Happy Birthday Beau Use the arrow keys to try to catch all the love drops. CREDITS I built this on top of Tammy's project. I changed images and added background music. The background song is one of my favorites (though I have many favorites) of my brother's original songs.

Spanish Text-to-Speech Beta version

INSTRUCTIONS - use the arrow keys to type a word in Spanish - click "talk" to make the computer try to say the word HOW I MADE IT I built on top of my word processor program http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/jay/21880 I recorded my voice saying most of the spanish phonemes (letter-sounds), and then I mapped each letter to the proper sound. FUTURE IDEAS There is lots of room for improvement. For one thing it doesn't pay attention to "ch" "ll" or other special letter combinations. Also, my Spanish phonemes aren't that good, so if someone who speaks good Spanish could re-record them that would be great. I hope to make it sound better in the future, or maybe someone else can. This project was partially inspired by wordo http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/emily3678/17318 FIXES Fixed bug should work smoothly (though not sounding smooth yet) for one full page (multipage still needs work)

word processor (multi page) 1.0

BASIC INSTRUCTIONS - use letter keys, space, and arrows to write MORE INSTRUCTIONS - there is no punctuation and no enter or return - you can change pages by filling up the first page, or by using the arrow keys to move up and down - when you change pages, you have to wait for it to render - If you download this, make sure to change the variable on website??? to 0 instead of 1 so that the array will work. - click backspace (suggested by Space_Marine) HOW IT WORKS It uses a letter version of the digit array project (link to project) to keep track of what was written on each page. It keeps track in the yellow box at the top right of the screen. If you look closely you will see that each letter is marked as a color in this box. MORE IDEAS - I am working on a Spanish text to speech generator. I will release a beta version soon. (okay text to speech released (link to project)) - Also, you could download this word processor, write something a few pages long, and upload it. Maybe you write a poem or something. Then other Scratchers could add on to your story or change your poem any way they want. MadLibs could be done this way too perhaps. - Now that I mention madlibs, I think someone should remake this project into a madlibs generator. I may do it, but if someone else wants to please do. I just found out that Dave911 made a similar project a few weeks ago (link to project)

digit array

INSTRUCTIONS (to see what it can do) 1) Choose a width and height 2) Click the start flag 3) Choose an "index" and a value "to store" and click "store" (make sure your index is less than your width*height) 4) Choose as many other "indexes" and "to stores" as you want and click "store" for each one 5) Go back to your first index and click "retrieve" to see the digit you stored 6) Go back to as many other indexes that you want (of the ones that you stored) and click "retrieve" 7) try clicking "test all" INSTRUCTIONS (to use it in your own project) 1) be aware of the "on website" variable, which must be set to 0 if in Scratch and 1 if on website 2) Export the "number array" sprite 3) Import the sprite into your project. 4) access the variables "index" and "to store" (for example by using the set blocks under the variable menu) and broadcast "store" to store each number you need to store for later. 5) Access the "index" variable and broadcast "retrieve" to get the numbers you stored back one at a time 6) Be careful not to let your other sprites cross the brown boundary around the array in the top right hand corner since that could corrupt your data while you're reading it. ABOUT This is a digit array that holds the numbers 0 through 9. It can hold about 50 Kilobytes of information. You can resize it between 1 digit and 10,000 (or up to ~150,000) digits. It's meant to be used in other projects by importing the "digit array" sprite. It's also meant as a proof of concept and a fun thought experiment. It "remembers" the digits by drawing colors with the pen, and then later reading the colors back with a lookup table. Google "arrays" to find out more or check out http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi30/242-30.pdf I hope this will make some projects more possible to make in Scratch which were previously very difficult. After making the program I found that Kevin Karplus had implemented a version of arrays for his Simon game as well as Roberth in <a href="/projects/Roberth/5184">(link to project)</a>. Mine is different in that it takes digits 0 through 9 and can hold many more bits of information. I've done things like this before in projects years ago such as Simulation of Life, <a href="/projects/jay/220">(link to project)</a> But this is the first reuseable implementation. I should mention too that it's about as compact as you can get without adding more colors. FUTURE IDEAS I'd like to see some complex projects build on top and especially a char array, word processor, and other such things that need lots of memory. (note 7/15/07 word processor now done http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/jay/21880)

fireworks 2

INSTRUCTIONS - click where you want a firework - click rapid and extreme for other modes CREDITS based on other scratch projects especially uncleclives' http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/uncleclives/11304

Happy Birthday Shayna!

This is a birthday greeting card I made for my sister Shayna INSTRUCTIONS: click on the cake decorations at the top MORE IDEAS: -You can delete the end credits if you want to send this greeting card to someone. -You can recolour objects. -You can add more decorations to the cake. Feel free to upload your version of this greeting card. :-D I modified this card from the original maker -- MyRedNeptune