The spine of scapula is a LED decorative lamp is a handcrafted, unique product that combines electronic technology with old style and simple paper cuts. Relaxing colorful combination of LED lights scrolls up towards its elongated shape, and creates a dreamy relaxing atmosphere. The lamp might be used vertically on the wall or be displayed horizontally on the desk.
Cookies Monster is an implementation project of IR sensor, speaker and Arduino board. AS long as the IR sensor is covered there is no sound. Don’t touch the cookies!
Momi is an interactive, plush toy designed for young children age 3-6.”Momi” makes the temperature reading process more pleasant and educational. Momi has a mechanic arm that moves up when the kid puts the real thermometer in his mouth, then red LEDs inside of Momi’s body lightening up accordingly to the kid’s body temperature.
Implementation prototype: In this implementation I have tried to test the circuit and the code by using a POT. Further the POT will be replaced by temperature sensor.
#1) Where are the beats? All I hear is an Atari tone generator.
#2) So you put photo-resistor in a bag of chips (or not necessarily in
a bag of chips considering someone was doing it with a
sandwich)...maybe a better explanation is in order.
#3) Your title is way misleading.
I think It's actually a very constractive comment, thank youDecepticon, you defiently right I need to post a better explanation.
When I started to sketch my ideas I realized that I will have to find ways to simplify the concept and the toy. More simple it will be- more effectively it will work. Then I started to look for the hardware solutions for it, this is actually what helped me to redefine my project.
I spent a LOT of time trying to solve the code and the hardware issues. Eventually, for the latest prototype I used the code and the hardware connections that I made before (with a few improvements).
Some of the code exp. that I was working on:
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/* sheep */
int inPin = 7; // the number of the input pin int outPin = 13; // the number of the output pin
int state = HIGH; // the current state of the output pin int reading; // the current reading from the input pin int previous = LOW; // the previous reading from the input pin
// the follow variables are long's because the time, measured in miliseconds, // will quickly become a bigger number than can be stored in an int. long time = 0; // the last time the output pin was toggled long debounce = 200; // the debounce time, increase if the output flickers
// if we just pressed the button (i.e. the input went from LOW to HIGH), // and we've waited long enough since the last press to ignore any noise... if (b1Reading == HIGH && lastb1Reading == LOW && millis() - time > debounce) { alpha = HIGH; // ... and remember when the last button press was time = millis(); }
if (b2Reading == HIGH && lastb2Reading == LOW && millis() - time > debounce) { alpha = LOW; beta = HIGH; // ... and remember when the last button press was time = millis(); }
if (b3Reading == HIGH && lastb3Reading == LOW && millis() - time > debounce) { alpha = LOW; beta = LOW; // ... and remember when the last button press was time = millis(); }
if (alpha == HIGH) { ddddddd } else if (alpha == LOW) { if (beta = HIGH) { } else if (beta = LOW) { } }
*************************************************** *************************************************** // Made with Pablo Ripollés *************************************************** int pins[] = {3, 5, 6, 9, 10}; int numPins = 5;
for (int i=numPins-1; i>=0; i--) // from last group to first group { for (int t=0; t<=Deltat/2; t+=5) // fade-in { value = minValue + 2*t*(maxValue - minValue)/Deltat; analogWrite(pins[i], value); delay(10); } for (int t=Deltat/2; t<=Deltat; t+=5) // fade-out { value = minValue - 2*(t - Deltat)*(maxValue - minValue)/Deltat; analogWrite(pins[i], value); delay(10); } }
for (int i=1; i<=numPins-2; i++) { for (int t=0; t<=Deltat/2; t+=5) // fade-in { value = minValue + 2*t*(maxValue - minValue)/Deltat; analogWrite(pins[i], value); delay(10); } for (int t=Deltat/2; t<=Deltat; t+=5) // fade-out { value = minValue - 2*(t - Deltat)*(maxValue - minValue)/Deltat; analogWrite(pins[i], value); delay(10); } } }
1. Katy is 27 years old, she lives in New York and works as art director in an advertising company.
As an art director Katy's friends always expect from her to be a unique and creative, especially when it's coming to getting a present from her. Katy is looking for a birthday present for her friend Monica. Katy knows Monica well, and she remembered that Monica was complaining lately that she has problems to fall asleep.
The "counting sheep" night lamp is a great solution for a present for Monica! It is a unique , decorative night lamp and it will help Monica with her problem to fall asleep.
2. Rita is 38 years old and she works till 8pm every day. Rita has a 9 years old daughter Maggy. It takes to Maggy a very long time to fall asleep and Rita has to seat with her for a very long time, since Maggy afraid of the dark but she cant fall asleep with the lights on. Rita stays with her for hours in the dark room and has no time to her own stuff.
Rita got the "counting sheep" night lamp which provides a soft light in Maggy's room, helps her to relax and fall asleep faster. Rita now can just give Maggy a good night kiss and do her own stuff.
3. Rob is a single 25 years old man. He just moved to his new appartment. Rob cares a lot about the design of his new appartment and trys to give it a uniqe and relaxing style.
Rob got the "counting sheep" night lamp. Its design fits to his bedroom style and provides a relaxing soft light while he goes to sleep. Rob likes to change ocasionaly the appearance of his bedroom and he glad that he can use the "counting sheep" night lamp in different locaion and positions each time.
User Testing Feedback
I choose to test the last iteration of my prototype:
The feedback: - It's very pretty - fancy - maybe it should be made of fabric - pyjamas style fabric - It is something that I will put on my bedroom shelf - I will buy it as a present to a friend, like gadget thing - maybe it can be folded in different ways if I want it to - I didn't see that it sheep shape I thought that it is a cloud - very relaxing - I like the black color - if I will need to choose between an organic kind color and the black I will prefer the black. - Can I change the lights mode? - I like the paper idea - can it be made of more then 4 parts?
** An interesting observation: most of the tested users didn't try to play with it or to hold it, they automatically tried to put it on a flat surface, like a shelf or a desk, they tried to find their preferable static shape of it.
I find the way to make my counting sheep prototype as a more compact book. I worked mostly on the hardware part, tried to find the most efficient way to connect everything together. I just started to figure out how Arduino's programming language works, so I still need to work a lot on it. For the next prototype I will mostly concentrate on the code part, and I will try to finalize the overlook itself.
Still counting sheep as a time passage project, but I decided try a totally different iteration. I've tried to make it a book with sheep. The prototype came out a little bit to big that I wanted it to be, and doesn't really have a feeling of holding a book. I do like the paper patterns, it makes the blinking light more softer ( as I already did in my first iteration). The code is still the same one, for the next step I really need concentrate in the code and the hardware.
After a very long night of work and burned fingers I finally finished this new iteration. I've tried to create a group of sheep (3) and make them blink on count. It turned out much more complicated then I thought it might be. The problem was the arduino board, I really wanted to hide it. Originally I just wanted to have separate 3 sheep. But the arduino board is still there, maybe if there is a way to make it wireless... Eventually at 6:00am when it seemed to be finished, that is how my arduino board looked like:
I had so many wires and resistors, and they all got so messy, It was almost impossible to deal with.
So I decided to start over. I minimized the number of pins that I use on the arduino board by using a lot of serials connections. This is the final board:
And this is how my Counting Sheep Prototype looks for now:
What were the specific technical issues referring to wire and resistance, that presented the early telegraph to be wired directly, coast to coast. What solution finally worked? Illustrate how that works, allowing coast to coast telegraph communication.
The longer the wires, the more resistance they have. More resistance - less current flows. The usage of thicker wires or higher voltage lowers the resistance but it still was limited to a couple hundred of miles. The solution was a relay station; that uses electromagnet as a switch, which, activates by current and resends the message further (by an amplified current).
First of all the toy fair was amazing, I was so excited to be there. So many toys at the same place! Awesome! My favorite toy wasn't an interactive or even an electronic toy. Andi's Green, "WorryWoo Monsters" are stuffed, soft and very emotional monsters. There is something so real, unique and so sensitive about these monsters that I immediately felt in love.
Another toy that I find interesting, is the Smart-E-Bear from Intellitoys Team, is an interactive stuffed toy that interacts by music, stories and games. It can be connected to software and be customized.
Online Timepieces:
The "Art-O-Meter" by Marcelo Coelho. The piece found on "www.we-make-money-not-art.com".
The "Birth Clock" by Alexandra von Feldmann. The piece found on "www.we-make-money-not-art.com"
This piece is a nonfunctional clock in a very fragile glass container. To make the clock functional the user have to break the glass container. I like that work a lot, the user have make a decision if he prefer the shape or the function of the clock. http://www.alex-vf.com/portfolio/rca/time.html
Library Timepieces:
Francis Alys
Time Lapse, 2001
The image is from: http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/colfotografia/paginas/e03.html
During twelve hours, Francis Alys recorded people hiding from the
heat under the shadow of the flagpole in the "Zocalo" the famous
municipal square in downtown Mexico City.
After that he combined the photographs with astronomical data drawings that shows the path and angle of the sun.
"Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video", 2003
Vito Acconci
Watch, 1971 9 min, b&w, silent, Super 8 film on video
Video/Body art; this is a close up of Vito's face following the circulation of a watch, by doing that his face represents a watch.
My passage of time is a sheep counting night lamp. The idea is to visualize the sheep counting action and use the lights as another way to fall asleep. I used colored and white paper in which I made holes in different patterns.
I was born in Ukraine and when I was 10 my family and I immigrated to Israel, where I grew up, graduated school, served in the IDF and earned my B.Ed. in Design and Education from Haifa Nery Bloomfield Wizo Academy. Since graduation I was working mostly with print graphics and advertising.
But, the interactive media, installations and physical computing fascinated me. I missed a passion for creative challenges and innovation but most of all I was missing the feeling of creating things with my own hands and not just the computer. I found the combination of all it in the MFADT program at Parsons and immediately decided that I’m going to do it, even though it seemed like the most impossible fantasy at the time.
Computation – it is a big challenge for me, absolutely don’t have any programming background, but this is the reason for me being here. My biggest dream ever, was to make toys, but in a way it was impossible even to think about it. Now I’m totally obsessed with the idea to be able to develop and create my own interactive toys.
I love toys and mostly stuffed toys. My favorite childhood toys are still my favorite toys. When I came to New York I took many stuff out from my suitcases just to make room for some more stuffed toys. My favorite one, was a small, old, fluffy dog that was named “Bulka”, but unfortunately he mysteriously disappeared 14 years ago. I found this picture in the Internet, which reminds him a lot.
