Hello everyone!
I’m Li Xi, Leecy is my English name which I made to share a similar pronunciation.
I have a background of digital arts. I love seeing beautiful things. That’s why I keep designing them!
My portfolio Site: http://www.leecyli.com
In my opinion, graphic design enables making cute projects, but it is physical computing that makes them awesome. That’s why I’m here:)
My favorite child toy is plasticine(sort of like this, but not this fancy back to 90s):
1) Post On Blog:
Short Bio 3-4 sentences
Why you are in the class.
Favorite Childhood toy (if Picture).
Headshot – in WordPress Author ID
2) Read Circuit 2 and 11.
3) Make 5 different sound effects that express an emotion. As you turn the POT, they play.
Emotions: Alert, Sadness, Happiness, Angry, Love
Hi there [DIGITAL NOD & HANDSHAKE], I am Xiaofeng from Morrisville, Pennsylvania. I got my AFA and BFA in graphic design, and my current interests are web development and physical computing. I love playing basketball (and all other kinds of sports), reading & writing, and cooking.
I’m in this class because I’m interested in how senses work and exploring the relationship between human, (computer) and object.
When I was a child, my favorite toy was…GAMEBOY maybe?
http://pective.com/m/nintendo-game-boy-pocket-3
Nice meeting you all!
For my final project I rebuilt my cactus from the midterm. This time I put it in a pot where I drilled a hole for the rangefinder and added an RGB led to the flower so you could tell who send the cactus dance. I was able to demo turning the cactus on and off wireless by tweeting either #dancecactusdance or #shutupcactus
From @Sarah
From @Lily
From @Paul
From @Helen
Pyramid Lifter + Range Finder + Servo
Midterm (it was supposed to be a tissue box with a little guy popping up and down)
My final was a sloth toy that dances Flamenco. The legs do the dance steps. As of now, the arms are stationary, but if I revisit this project in the future, I would like to make the arms move as well.
Video of it dancing -> https://vimeo.com/66965838
Below are the process photos. I used white presentation paper and colored it with markers afterwards.
My midterm was a cactus that dances with the concept behind it being that it would tweet when my mom was at her desk and then dance when me or any of my siblings tweeted back to it.
This was the second assignment where we had to embed the servo motor into our project and have the servo react to the range finder. For this I made a robot that rolls around until it comes across an obstacle and then it stops before it runs into it.
This was the first assignment of creating a paper automata and controlling the speed of the servo with the serial port. I chose to change the value of the servo speed by using a processing sketch I made with a normal dog and an angry dog button that when clicked changed the speed the cat ran.
I intended to make this a prank toy. Starbucksduck looks like a normal Tall Pike sitting on a table, until your friend two meters away begins controlling its lid via bluetooth from their iPhone to perform a rubber duck dance. In a real setting, the mechanics will be hidden under the table, leaving only the cup on.
Making this was really fun, I found this awesome software Pepakura Designer (http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/) that lets you take a 3D model and flatten it so you can print it, cut it and assemble it. It’s fairly easy to use, only problem is that is PC only!!!
The idea of the train was that it would work with the MTA live data, but right now they’re still in beta and the documentation is incomplete so I wasn’t able to actually use it.
Got everything working separately but when I assembled the mechanism with everything else, it didn’t work 😦 it was fun making it!
The flower will bloom (so that you can smell it better) when you get close enough.
Lion Dance:
I built this model several times using different weights of paper. At the end I had to tape the parts where it touches and trigger the gears, and then add a piece of foam to make the surface larger.
Code:
Using the SimpleControl for MAC code, I used a bluetooth shield to talk to my MAC so it could control the Servo and LED wirelessly.
The Gadgets of Lola
Youmna and I developed an interactive art installation that transports you into the life of a dreamy copywriter named Lola. She lives in a world where dreams and reality blend into each other.
She is an inventor, in order to deal with her everyday drab, black and white, life she experiments everyday at her cubicle, she invents fantastical artifacts for transporting her into magical worlds.
One of these fantastical artifacts that she has created is the Twirly. A device that looks like a gigantic camera, all made out of scraps she has found lying around her office (paper, cardboard, felt, pins) that when used transports you into a whimsical environment.
Lola uses it to record her dreams. The camera may sort of look like a “normal” one but it doesn’t function like one. The contrary. It takes the pictures and videos from the person who’s holding it and viewing through the lenses. Meaning that it works the opposite way. When one sees someone holding the camera as a regular one pointing to any direction, he/she is actually taking pictures of her/himself. It takes them from inside.
Later Lola realized that in order to watch her dreams that she recorded in the camera she needed another device. She invented the Eye – TV. An artifact that feeds wirelessly from the camera and plays all the pictures as a movie. The screen is very particular. It shoes a roll with all the pictures collaged. The experience of the narrative is surreal and non-linear.
For both objects we used materials such as: cardboard, felt, paper, tape, glue gun, pins, led’s, servo motors, foam board, elastic bands, acetate paper and arduino.
For this final I wanted to create a simple movement and play with the shape of the object itself. In the end, the construction of the object prove to be more work than I imagined leaving me with not enough time to explore that interest. However, the pig was succesfully controlled via bluetooth and through the Iphone I could control the direction ans speed of the flight of the pig.
I was not able to get my blue tooth to work. I am going to keep pushing forward with it though because I want to be able to control my dresses.
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