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Things I did this week

On saturday I participated in the scrapyard challenge. We essentially made a motorized flail and tried to use it to complete circuits, which consisted of square pieces of tinfoil, wired directly into the arduino board/box. Our goal was to make an instrument that leaned on the side of giving agency to the musician, instead of embracing …

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Scrapyard Challenge: Music Box

Team: Barbar, Lucy, Nour, & Crystal Concept: Used an old type write case and parts to construct a music box. We covered the original spool form the typewriter in aluminum (foil) and created one switch with wire that would be the power source. Then we connected 15 other separate wires to the typewriter casing that …

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Scrapyard Challenge: Interactive Dance Game

  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 …

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Mashups

Digital/Digital: One day Ny tour with Most Liked Instagram Photos I combined instagram and googlemap to create a daily Ny tour. As me, people who are out of NY can create their daily tour with instagram’s most liked photos. It’s a new adventure. Digital/Physical: NEWYORK DAILY MOOD   I combined Twitter and Brooklyn Bridge for …

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Maker Faire

1. Listen to a network When people play music together, they communicate with each other in complex,changing patterns. If one musician plays something different, the other musicians respond. It’s like a conversation among friends. You respond to their comments and tone of voice, and they respond to yours. The music network table simulates this exchange. …

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Reading Response: The Power of Feedback Loops

There are definitely a lot more to the power of feedback loops then I had initially thought. Thinking about the implications for how feedback loops can adjust the health industry is both interesting and exciting. When it comes to health I definitely think that showing people their behavior can play a huge part in helping …

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Maker Faire

At maker faire, hidden amongst the 3d printers and food trucks, there were three major interfaces that caught my eye as pushing forward in the direction that interactive technology seems to be heading. The first was at the Microsoft tent. I was drawn to the touchscreen technology they were demoing, originally because of how intuitive …

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Feedback loops reading response

This article is point the power of feedback loops, it could change people’s behavior to do better things, it is like design psychology, people need self-recognition in their spirit, feedback loop is like a mirror, to let yourself realize what you do, and what you should do. This theory is successful, and I really like …

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Mashups

Digital-Digital: My digital-digital mashup is about landmarks of New York City, it is useful for tourists or fresh man in NYC, let people understand why this city is amazing, and know more information about NYC. It is mashup with map, user could see clearly in the map that figure out where the landmarks are. I …

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Reading Response about Feedback Loop

The author used a modified traffic sign to cast an image of how feedback loops work from evidence – relevance – consequences – action. Also this example perfectly makes the point of how effective that feedback loop can affect a diver’s behavior. Before I read this article, feedback for me was just any platform that …

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