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README — John Mars

Name: John Mars
Status: Graduate Student
Program: Tangible Interaction Design
Background: Bachelors of Architecture, RISD

Homepage: http://M4R5.io
GitHub: https://github.com/marsman12019
Twitter: @john_a_mars

Example Project: Vox Proprius

Vox Proprius (source code) is an iPhone app that harmonizes with you while you sing. Running on the openFrameworks platform, it uses the ofxiOS addon combined with the ofxPd addon to generate sound and visuals.

All of the extra parts are generated live from your own voice using a pitch shifter in Pd. Songs can be written in any number of composition softwares (I used musescore), and exported as a musicXML file for import and synthesis in the app.

John Choi

14 Jan 2015

1)  BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO MYSELF:
My name is John Choi and I love building robots and video games!  I began learning simple game development a good while ago, and so I happen to know a lot of stuff on how to make games (art, programming, and the like).  I also began building robots about a year and a half ago, so I also happen to know quite a bit about Arduinos, servomotors, and the like.  I have but one objective for this course: build awesome stuff!

2)  A LINK TO MY TWITTER ACCOUNT:
https://twitter.com/johnchoi313

3)  A LINK TO MY GITHUB ACCOUNT:
https://github.com/johnchoi313

4)  CATEGORIZED AS “01-introduction”

5)  A DOCUMENTATION TO ONE OF MY PRIOR PROJECTS:
 Speaking of robots, here’s a funny little robot I built about a year ago:


Proudly made with the following:

HARDWARE:
-Samsung Galaxy S3
-HC-06 Bluetooth Module
-3 Standard Analog Servos
-2 Micro Analog Servos
-3D printed parts
-9V batteries
-Arduino
-Wires

SOFTWARE:
-Android SDK
-Processing 2.0.1
-Autodesk Maya
-Arduino
-GIMP

I think what I did successfully was combining fancy DIY technology with the latest in culture trends.  What was lacking is that the robot can sing only one song and every motion is hardcoded, rather than procedural.

By the way, here’s an image of a concept sketch:concept

 

mmontenegro

14 Jan 2015

Last semester I was the technical lead for a project called Marioneta! This project was made with one experience designer, one sound designer, one artist and two programmers (me being one of them).

Marioneta was a project for the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum to create a puppet gesture recognition and mirroring effect with the use of Microsoft Kinect v2. The projects main focus is to create an endless experience in which everything in the world will react to the users actions as they become and impersonate a puppet.

This installation is currently installed in the museum, you can go check it out! Other work I have done can be found in my homepage.

ST

14 Jan 2015

Hi all,

My name is Sam Ticknor. I am a senior who will be graduating in May 2015 with a BFA and minor in Computer Science. After graduating, I hope to work in an arts-related field in NYC.

I work primarily in traditional mediums. I am a drawer, printmaker, and animator. I have worked with new media in the past and I am looking forward to finding an exciting way to incorporate it into my current practice.

I am well-versed at cross-platform web development.

Last spring, I collaborated on a piece with a member of the exhibits team at The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. I developed the software for the Reflection Table, which can be seen here. The description of the piece, taken from the website, is as follows:

Visitors manipulate granulated material across an internally-lit sculpted landscape. As certain areas of the surface are uncovered, soothing sounds are emitted. When entirely covered, the sounds fade away and other areas and sounds are discovered within the table’s landscape.

The software translates a video feed into a soundscape using Processing. The piece is a part of the larger traveling exhibit XOXO: Love and Forgiveness.

About Alex Sciuto (Masters of Design)

Hi there, I’m Alex Sciuto. “Sciuto” is pronounced just like Proscuitto if you are a fan of cured meats. Before coming back to CMU to do a masters program, I was a self-taught designer, data visualizer, and computer programmer, and I still feel a lot of impostor syndrome about that. I really like the challenge of taking raw data and turning it into story worth telling or an experience worth interacting with. I have a lot of experience doing browser-based development, and I’d love this semester to learn about other development environments.

I’m pretty active on Twitter. I follow a lot of visual journalists and dataviz people. @SciutoAlex. I occasionally use GitHub. github.com/sciutoalex.

Space Activity Tracking Project

closeYou can read the full write-up of the project on my website.

I was curious how people use the studio where my program is located in. As part of the class, Gadgets, Sensors, and Human Activity, I created a series of Arduino IR sensors that recorded when there was movement in different parts of the studio space, these sensors then communicated back to a base station that visualized the data.

The project was successful because I had never created anything with Arduino before, and running the system for a day, people were intrigued by the project. It got people talking. It was lacking in its robustness. The sensors’ batteries died quickly, and there was no permanent storage. The visualization was kind of tacked on at the end and wasn’t part of the official assignment.

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Above is a shot of the sensors, I created three of them.

installation

The system in action. Actually a photo-shopped image of the system in action. Very bad lighting that day.