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Wanfang Diao

15 Jan 2014

Hello everyone! My name is Wanfang. My background is Electronic Engineering & minor in Industrial Design. Now I’m in the Master of Tangible Interaction Design program. I enjoy creating playful & interactive experience. Most of my work are building tangible smart things,  I have code experience but not much in visualization. The funny thing is that the initial motivation I taught myself Processing was  to build an application for visualizing Smith chart to help myself learning electromagnetic theory :p.  I guess now IACD is a great playground for me to use digital media to explore & create fun experience!!!

Twitter: @Wanfangd

Github: https://github.com/wfdiao

“Note cubes” is my solo project in Hybrid Instrument Building course.

Note Cubes from Wanfang Diao on Vimeo.

 

 

 

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Note Cubes is a set of tangible cubes designed for children to explore sound, notes and rhythm. By putting them a line or also stacking them (just like playing toy bricks), you can let cubes trigger their “neighbor cubes “( left or right & up & down) to play notes. Kids get a piece of sound or melody after a few time trials.

In this project, I want to build a very straight forward mapping between space (of cube) and  time (of the musical note) and give kids a playful experience of exploring rhythm & melody by some kind of “space sense”.

Nastassia Barber

14 Jan 2014

Hi!  I’m Nastassia and I’m a junior in mechanical engineering.  My interests are maybe even more separate and diverse than others here but like many other people, I hope to use this class to build some skills that will help me bridge the gap.  Gaining more skills in the software area will help me bring my interests together and maybe help me figure out how not to end up designing milling cutters for the rest of my life.  So far I’ve practiced/enjoyed building test apparatus, assembly lines, jewelry, paper lanterns, and silly Arduino projects.

I don’t have a lot of relevant experience, but I did a generative art project for my 15-112 term project.  It was a little thing where you could select one of two brushes to draw with and it would make stuff happen.  The icicle brush generated geometric icicle-type shapes based on how fast the mouse was moving, and the web brush generated webs between drawn lines.

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I liked the concept and I thought the drawing tools were pretty, but the color droplets in the web brush were buggy and I didn’t have time to fix them.  And wow, were my ‘save,’ ‘clear,’ etc. buttons terrible.  My main triumph here was that Kosbie told me my idea was un-gradable, but I did it anyway and got an A+.  The video was really not made for sharing other than for grading, so it’s pretty dull, but you can find it here.

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