Hey again, today we started working with Unity. We pretty much learned how to use the platform by importing the scenes we made in Blender last week, and playing around with textures and lighting. We also connected Unity to Virtual Studios so that we could use C# code to control how we moved in Unity. For example, one of our tasks was to find a way to move forwards, backwards, left, right, and turn (by rotation) using the W, A, S, D keys on the keyboard. I was able to get the basics working, but I still have some adjusting that I want to do because I don’t want to be able to go down under my scene when I move forward.

Right after we got off today at 5, Angelica, Harrison and I went to the gym for an arm and ab workout. My arms feel like jello now. 

This past Friday night, Ruby, Harrison and I tried to go out stargazing, but by the time we got out, we realized that the clouds were covering all the stars. We can blame Harrison for not checking the cloud cover report though…so anyways, we drove back to Freddie, and just layed out in the grass kinda behind our building. The weather was nice, and the stars did end up coming out a bit so it was still fun. 

On Saturday, all of us interns went to the farmers market in downtown Ames. It did sprinkle the whole time we were there, but it wasn’t too bad. I ended up gravitating towards the table covered in all sorts of tomatoes. The woman working the table had to point out the good ones because there were too many to choose from. They’ve all been yummy though. Harrison and I also ended up each getting a chocolate called the ‘strawberry popper’ from a chocolate vendor. I honestly can’t even remember what was in it besides the jalapeno pepper. Woo. I have absolutely no spice tolerance lol so the spice kinda ruined the flavor for me. 

Sunday was pretty much spent studying. I finished up my blender scene and spent a good amount of time understanding the BioSemi USB Trigger Interface system that we’ll be using to send triggers from Psychopy to the external device for data collection during the trivia game. I definitely understand how to use the device better, and also how to write and interpret the MatLab code that we’ll use to work with the collected data.