My constraints for this piece was to use processing and the face tracker. I only gave myself 2 hours to do this piece as well.
September 20, 2011 archive
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Sep 20
DAY 7 7in7
For my last project I wrote a processing sketch that basically oscillates back and forth between pre loaded video footage and live captured footage. This sketch toggles the two video files based on frames per second, which can be modified to fit many different scenarios. this actually serves as the base for a larger project …
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Sep 20
7 in 7 Project #7: The Hush Box
Goal: The new space on 16th street, 12th floor is quite noisy during lecture hours, due to the fact that the old school ad agency concept for the space back fired… The Hush Box would control the amount of noise so no instructor should have to keep going outside and hushing everyone every 30 minutes. …
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Sep 20
7×7 6: Portable Night Light
Project 6: How To Not Be Afraid of The Dark Another strange, useless artifice, a portable night light. The idea for this object is to be towed behind someone as they are walking down a dark hallway in the middle of the night. In the video you will notice that there is a strange jump, …
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Sep 20
7 in 7 : cookie monster
I did not make this!! Source: http://www.doobybrain.com/2009/02/01/cookie-eating-cookie-monster-cupcake/ Yap, I am really hungry. Based on the spirit on the whole project “Do it by hand” I spent some time to finish the robot. It’s not hard since there is a instruction together with the toy. Put a new bag of cookies and push the button on …
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Sep 20
7×7 5: Kitchen Mixing Utensil
Project 5: How To Mix Your Ravioli This project proved to be very difficult, and in my opinion, failed. This needless object was supposed to rotate around the circumference of the pot. The spoon in the middle was meant to mix the pasta in the boiling water. First mistake was attaching the spoon to the …
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Sep 20
Week 3 Readings
Why We Need Things, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi With our own evolution comes an “increasing dependence on objects for survival and comfort” (Csikszentmihalyi, 1993). In this essay the author presents objects, which we often don’t even think about, as being dangerous. Although they are man-made, they are not necessarily under our control. They begin to take on …
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Sep 20
Day 7: 7-in-7
Day 7 (Yayyyy!): Digi-Wallet On this last day I was thinking of all the food and coffee that I buy in the city, and a possible way to map my spending. I came up with a digital wallet prototype that would tell you the amount of money you spent that day, and the amount remaining. …
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Sep 20
7 in 7 day 3
The day 3 project I tried to describe another emotion by MAX/MSP. This emotion is ‘Hesitance and division’. Sometimes we often encounter some hesitant moment or situation, when we have to make some choices we might feel hesitant. It is just like that there were many ‘ourselves’ in our mind to discuss which choice we …
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