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 …
Category: Student Work
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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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Sep 19
maker faire report
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
DAY 6 7in7
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
Maker Faire
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
Makers Faire pick #3: Route detecting robots
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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Sep 19
7in7 # 5 Fish eye shooting
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 …
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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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