Still Pretend to be a fish. You know look through fish eye lens can give a quite different world. Home-made Fish Eye Len camera: Limited Leopard grain fish eye len camera. Setp.18.2011 One day life of a fish I found it was hard to focus …
September 2011 archive
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Sep 19
Makers Faire pick #2: Spinning drum machine 1
This system used a chip with pre-written MIDI drum samples. The way the MIDI sounds were triggered were determined by a light sensor: while it received no light, it would play the MIDI sample. To block the light, the maker used a plastic disc and a marker. By making different patterns on the disc using …
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Sep 19
Maker Faire pick #1: Game mashup by PaperKettle
This project consists of 4 different games and a physical controller that tweaks them: A ping pong game, Super Mario, a simulation of missile commanding system and tetris. The controller is built in a way that each knob can be assigned to different taks on the basis of what setting the controller has been put …
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Sep 19
Commentary on “The Computer Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet” by Alan Kay
So, I’m writing this as I’m listening to the talk for the second time, and I will probably need to watch it for the third time to be able to completely grasp the critical points in this talk, but here’s what really resonated with me. Firstly, I believe Kay’s talk evolved mainly around the notion …
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Sep 19
7in7 ＃4 LED light／Fluorescent Fish
This inspiration is from ocean. Some kinds of fish can be fluorescent in dark, deep in ocean, coz their squama holds chemical substance. I bought ULTRA-Green/Red Phosphor online try to make something can be see in dark. I also got an idea from a night lamp( You may see the picture below). The goal: a dancing fish in …
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Sep 19
The Computer Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
Alan C. Kay, redraws our perspective in this small introduction to the computer revolution. He points out every important, mayor shift instance, where the printing press was being adopted. The long stretches of time that it took for humans to develop more innovative technologies and ways of thinking. I want to hope that Moore’s law …
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Sep 19
Maker Faire !!!!!
Phone Charging Mailbox One of the first interfaces that caught my eye was in the radio shake area. They reused a mailroom mailbox set and turned it into a cell phone charging area. People can plug their phone in, lock the door, and leave without worrying about their phone. People always have problems with their …
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Sep 19
Commentary on the passage “Design of everyday things” by Donald Norman
I believe the main point made by Donal Norman in this passage dealt with “Intuitiveness”. He breaks open the notion of products and interfaces being “Intuitive” and puts it in the context of everyday use of objects. A very important remark made in the passage which was kind of an undertone, was the priority of …
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Sep 19
Maker Faire 3
Singing Car This was a project that immediately grabbed my attention and I just had to put it on here. It is taking the traditional interface of an object we use everyday and putting a spin on it, changing its purpose. I thought it was a good example of how we can start thinking about …
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Sep 19
Maker Faire 2
Vertical Theory Another project I was not surprisingly intrigued by was vertical farming. Coming from a landscape architecture background, vertical farming was an idea that would constantly pop up time and time again. There will come a point in time where this will be absolutely necessary – with the growing human population food is becoming …
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