Sep 20
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
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
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
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 (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
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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Sep 19
There was soooo many cool projects to choose from, but here are my top few: Water Swing Conductive Paint by Bare Conductors Ember (kitchen arduino hack for sous vitae) Japanimo (3d object sensor) Not quite an interface, but extra bonus: Most Awesome 3-D printer!!! Prints resins, silicates, metals, enamels etc and CHOCOLATE! CHEESE! COOKIES! and …
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Sep 19
Three Videos: one two three As a whole the piece is still untitled. For day 6 I decided to create another video installation, and what I ended up with was three variations of the same piece to be displayed together on multiple tvs to be constructed in some way. Through this work certain other ideas …
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Sep 19
3 projects that I most interested in: One is: https://www.sifteo.com/ SIFTEO Many people were interested in this thing. Especially, children. At first sight, I thought it was a iPod Shuffle as the design and size. With physical touch, you can combine two or three, actually, there were 6 electronic boxes as a group, …
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Sep 19
This robot sent repeated IR beams and received them back, on the basis of which it calculated its next move. Hence, always staying on the path (the path being pre-drawn on the ground below it)
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