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DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
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Yury Gitman
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Final deliverable: 3 projects
[ Project 1 ]: Cornelius Hoot
Cornelius Hoot is a plush, interactive owl night-light. He is the perfect bed-buddy or go-everywhere companion, with eyes that glow a soft, friendly green. He blinks on his own or on command with buttons in his ears controlling either eye. He goes to sleep if left alone for a half-hour.
Check out a video of Cornelius in action…
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[ Project 2] : The Blorb
The Blorb is an interactive toy mace, a foam weapon whose spikes trigger streams of digital noise upon striking its victim. An embedded infrared sensor reads the Blorb's surrounding environment, changing the persistence and speed of noise according to its distance from its target.
Here's a demo of the Blorb in action…
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[ Project 3 ]: Constellation Skirt
The constellation skirt contains LED circuits evoking the forms of ursa minor (the little dipper), Cassiopeia, and Cancer (the crab). A dark, voluminous outer layer enrobes an underlying layer of circuitry. The circuit representing each constellation is broken but is intermittently and fleetingly completed at random by the wearer's movements, causing momentary flashes of complete constellations.
Here's a demo of the Constellation Skirt:
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Latest prototype of the constellation skirt
Here's a view to the inside of the skirt. The conductive thread was encased in a tube of zigzag stitching for insulation purposes. The little purple pads are sewable lilypad LEDs.
Here's a demo of the intermittent light effect created by a weak connection:
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More prototyping – Constellation Skirt
This green circle is to be the electrical layer of the skirt:
Here is a map of how the 3 constellations will appear:
When they are connected:
Casseiopeia:
next steps
- add more breaks in the constellation circuits
- add Li+
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latest prototypes
The following photograph is the latest look and feel prototype (apologies for the crap grainyness of the photo). As planned, I went with a classic dirndl shape with a slightly sheer navy silk material, which ended up being a bit difficult to work with because of its slippery texture.
As for implementation prototype, I am toying with the idea of exploiting a weak connection between the LEDs and the power source, creating a twinkling effect when the intermittent connection is made and the circuit is completed. Here is the code for one instance in which the LEDs are programmed to "breathe" softly on and off. Here is the code for another instance, in which each of the three constellations is attached to a capacitance sensing star charm, and touching each triggers the illumination of a separate constellation.
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Constellation Skirt – Prototypes
< Look and Feel >
The style: classic dirndl skirt (gathered fabric with an elasticized waistband)
The fabric: outer skirt will be semi-sheer, thin navy blue china silk, low sheen; inner structure will be more structured cotton broadcloth for volume
< Implementation >
Casseiopeia
Cancer
Ursa Minorhere's the code
At the moment, the three circuits are incomplete and the constellations may be activated when the user's movements cause the components to fall into place and complete the circuit. I am also interested in using the Aruduino capSense library to use human touch to activate the constellations.
< Role in User's Life >
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blog postings
Link: Owl Night Light instructable
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Apr 15, 2009. 7:03 AMjessyratfink says: -
Yury Gitman
Unexpected things from design process
What unexpected things happened when you created your design files?
In reviewing the concepts that I proposed a few days ago I felt
somewhat intimidated by the timeline presented us for submitting a
final product. Two weeks seems a bit daunting as a time limit. Further, I guess after reviewing the concepts I originally thought about, I didn't feel like they were objects I would be spectacularly interested in implementing as a part of my life. They seemed more like things that would serve primarily as good intellectual exercises rather than objects I envisioned as practical pieces for everyday living. This seems to be a recurring challenge in the brains of designers, whether it is necessary to confine one's designs to the useful rather than just the intellectually piquant.In developing the Constellation Skirt concept it was surprisingly challenging to imagine a way in which one might embed clunky, hard technology into a soft garment. Further, what about washing? It certainly wouldn't be feasible to just dump the whole kit and kaboodle into the washing machine and call it a day. So I realized that I would need to spend some time thinking about how such a garment could be something people could actually use and abuse. I also struggled a little bit in thinking how I might conceal the technology portions that are indispensable and not able be "softened" or minimized further to the scale required by subtly used technology.
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Blueprint: Constellation Skirt
The following are some of the design sketches for a proposed constellation skirt. The constellation skirt comprises three layers:
1. outer skirt (dark matte silk, velcro)
2. electronic underskirt (stiff cotton muslin, conductive thread, sewable LEDs, velcro, arduino)
3. lining (acetate, sewn to outer skirt)
The overskirt is attached permanently to the lining, but the electrical layer is removable anchored to the outer skirt with velcro, for ease of cleaning if necessary.
None of the electronic/conductive components are meant to be attached to the middle layer, the electronic layer. I thought something like this disk could serve as a good star element as a button.
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Concept proposals for electro-plush experience
Concept 1:
a collection of soft switches in extremities of this headpiece turn LEDs encased in the headpiece in different sequences. the object on the right indicates the basal structure
Concept 2:
this dress is padded with buttons all over the back which control LEDs lighting the various panels. this piece invites touch in a medium where it is generally considered socially taboo to touch.
Concept 3:
flex sensors embedded in neoprene encasements at elbows and knees generate digital beats from small speakers.
Concept 4:
rug-like object with plush buttons. played like an instrument such that the user walks on it, in the style of DDR, to create music.
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blorb reworked
Alas, the blorb continues to misbehave. Here is it's current condition.
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where i’d like to show my work
blogs:
conferences:
- toy fair
- International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning
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Infrared sensor controlling blink speed and fading of LEDs
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