Tricia Fuglestad's Blog

Emotional Robot Color Wheel Posters

1/24/2021

I turned my Emotional Robots showing a full range of feelings into a poster set for display in the classroom as a mood meter and a color wheel combined. They also are set up with augmented reality so the robots can express themselves even more through animation using the free AR app, Eyejack. The six poster set is available on TpT here.

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Expressive Robots

3/7/2019

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First graders were introduced to Rembrandt through a 15 minute portion of the Greatest Artists Video. We looked at how he painted people showing emotions. Then we used this handout below to see a simplified contour line drawing of a face and matched it to Rembrandts' faces by emotions.

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STEAM and Active Learning Workshop

9/29/2018

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Click the image to view my SMORE workshop flyer with links to all the resources

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Memoirs of a Robot

8/12/2018

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Early in the summer I received an email from a filmmaker, Mark Elias, who was about to launch a crowdfunding campaign for his next film, Memoirs of a Robot. He had come across a painting I had done of a robot a few years back and asked if I would like to donate a robot painting to his campaign as a perk for donors.

Well, I thought, why not? I hadn't painted robots in awhile, and I wanted to revisit the idea of making robots and animating them with my students. I have a post about my Make it and Move it idea here. So, I went ahead and made Annie Log and mailed it to Mark. I photographed her first and used that image to practice the animation technique I explain in the post.

Annie Log

Animated Annie Log

Do-Dad and Alumi-Mum on the cover of my AR Shutterfly book

Then, I began going bonkers over the idea of painting robots. I called it my robot phase (I might still be in it.) I painted Do-Dad and Alumi-Mum, Polly Phonic, and Anita Toonup. All of these robot paintings are showcased on this blog post. As you can see from the post, I animated each one of the robot paintings so that I would have plenty of examples to show my students when they try the technique this school year. THEN, I received a Shutterfly coupon in the mail. That's when I realized I had enough transdigital pieces of art to fill a Shutterfly book and practice using AR (augmented reality) to make the animations appear over the art. I've seen this technique recently at the ISTE conference and had it in the back of my mind. So, I designed the book, loaded it up with still images of art that I had or intended to animated, added a page with instructions for how to access the AR effects, and set it off to print. I went to HP Reveal studio to build my "auras" by setting the art as the "trigger image" and the animations as the "overlay". When the book arrived all I had to do was use the app to scan over the images and watch the magic.

The Indiegogo Campaign for Memoirs of a Robot will be offering posters of Annie Log as a perk for donations.
You can see Annie Log animate if you receive one of these posters. All you do is:

Download the HP Reveal app to your device
Follow my account Fuglefunart in the app
Use the app to scan the Annie Log Poster from and the animation will play right over Annie Log

Donate Today

A $100 donation to the movie project will get you a Limited Edition Poster of Annie Log
(that will move with augmented reality)

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Robot Paintings with Augmented Reality

7/10/2018

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I was asked to make a robot painting for an upcoming kickstarter as a gift to those who donate. If all works out, Annie Log will become a poster for 100 or so supporters. The instructions I received was to make a robot like the one I made a few years ago and connect it someway to the idea of "love" (hence the heart button).

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Fugleflick Art Bot

11/27/2017

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A group of young engineers, computer programers, and artists gathered in the art room during lunch recesses for a couple months to see what they could make using a Hyperduino, old computer, some cardboard, LEDs, touch pads, and creativity. The results of the collaboration is called a Fugleflick Art Bot. It is an interactive art piece that plays 5 different student-created, art-related movies when you touch a button on the computer screen in its belly with audio coming through the speaker (mouth). The lights are on a circuit made from copper wire and batteries connected to two LED lights behind 3-D glasses. The switch is built into the nose.

Below is a series of photos taken during the creation process. Since we were making discoveries, problem-solving, and working with limited resources, our design changed as we progressed. You'll see the original sketch was for an iPad in the robot belly but then we learned that the hyperduino needed to run in a browser. So, we adapted. The group also changed as we added artists after the engineers wired up the robot. They helped make the robot have a unified design with balanced colors with a brass brad motif.

Interview

We created a youtube playlist for the Fugleflick bot. You can explore the five Fugleflick movies that it is programed to play here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS4LIonCAPBfr0enREOu6HH9BQPf6JaGf
Explore all our Fugleflicks here.

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MAKE IT then MOVE IT: animated GIF

7/7/2017

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A long time ago I responded to Ian Sands on twitter asking for digital images of children's art that he could offer to his high school students to play with as they learn to animate. Some of his students selected my students "He Came with the Chair" paintings. The animations turned out SO adorable and inspiring-see example below or check them all out here. It has been one of my goals to figure out an elementary level lesson with a straightforward app that would give my students the experience of animating their own artwork in the same style. I think I might have figured it out. This technique isn't perfect, but, it will work.

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Cardboard Light up Moveable Robot

6/19/2017

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Paper Circuit Robot Digital Extension

1/10/2016

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My fifth graders are currently working on robots that will light up with a paper circuit designed to have a button in the robot design that closes the circuit. The other day I saw the latest cover of Newsweek magazine. It featured a couple of robots in an American Gothic Parody. My idea, though different, was inspired by this image and by my students' desire to explain all the cool things their robot "does". I thought they could share these ideas in a Newsweek Cover format and learn some graphic design tricks at the same time.

Lesson Resources:

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How to Make a Light Up Robot

12/7/2015

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So, if you've been following my posts lately you would notice that I've been working on an idea to incorporate paper circuits into an art-making experience for my students.
See my post where I discovered how to make a circuit & dreamt of a light up robot.
See my post where I made my prototype for a light up robot.
Now, watch my step-by-step video where I try to explain the process here or below.