Sep 30
This Saturday’s Workshop was about “Scrapyard Challenge”. My group, Sophie and Helen and I made an instrument that is called ‘Rainbow Monster’. As you can see in the pictures, we made it with junks such as a fan with a board from printer(maybe?) and straws and so on. At the first time, we tried to …
Sep 30
Me, Shu Yu Lin, Melanie Bossert found a huge paper with lots of dots. So, we thought that maybe we could make a twister game. However, we could not figure out how to connect our feet and hands to make different sounds. Than, we decided to change our idea to make a dance game. We …
Sep 29
My partners, Jimmy Tang and Yuchen Zhang, and I conceived the idea of creating a heavy metal pigeon. We used a paper mache piegeon with pieces of conductive tape that will play different notes when a conductive glove “plays” them, like a keyboard. The glove was made of mesh with wires …
Sep 29
Daniel, Gabor and I started the scrapyard challenge by first taking apart an old VCR and an NVIDIA GPU. We decided to dismount the fan from the GPU and attach it to a part from the VCR. We were able to remove the inside ejection mechanism from the VCR and powered it up with a …
Sep 29
[MUSIC I AM LISTENING TO: Nothin’ But A Good Time by POISON :P] TEAM: Vivi Yuwen Lee/ Erin Cen/ South Cool/ Tim Xiaofeng Lin PROJECT CONCEPT: Body As Interface/ Body As Metaphor/ Human vs Machine PERSONAL GOAL: I want to use material that is, at some level, soft, warm, and organic, as part of …
Sep 29
1. XLED – The Ultimate Sport Training App that connects you to your idol players. FEATURE: Syncing you and your star player’s training schedule, strengths and skills, which allows growth of both you and your player while you are working out. 2. Facebook vs Drug Effect
Sep 25
After I read feedback loop and built up a concept of feedback loop, I think feedback loop is really a kind of interesting invention that it gave a guidance to human’s behavior. However I have some doubt it when I mentioned that feedback loop is always working through a way to tracking people’s behavior. As …
Sep 24
See the Oregan Trail Map My digital-physical mashup is an imagining of how a real life competitive race of Oregon Trail would occur. The emphasis of the game would be on maintaining health for all teammates that compete. A unique feature would be cooperation amongst competing teams, when either needs a boost …
Sep 24
One device that I absolutely loved is called the Useless Machine. When you turn it on, all it does is turn itself off. It is absolutely wonderful in its uselessness. I had the great opportunity to hear AJ Jacobs’ lecture. He is a writer and editor at large at Esquire magazine and specialized in writing …
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