Here's the info on the Chumby I mentioned in class. It's a portable wireless device that's open source and is generally embedded in what look like custom plushies. It's not for sale yet, but maybe someone can get a developer copy. I sent them an email but haven't heard back yet.
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- Yury Gitman
Instructor: Making Wireless Plush Toys, Design Technology Department - Caty Bartholomew
Instructor: Toy Concept Development and Design, Illustration Department
Students From Making Wireless Toys
Students from Toy Concept Design and Development
Taught At The Parsons New School for Design
December 2006
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- This blog documents the work of students in two separate Parsons classes and departments. MAKING WIRELESS PLUSH TOYS designs, sews, and solders interactive soft toys. MAKING WIRELESS PLUSH TOYS is a class in the CDT department, Communication Design Technology. TOY CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN deals with the fundamentals of ideation, development and design. TOY CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN is a class in the Illustration Department. These are two separate classes that take place in two separate departments and have two separate groups of students. The Professors decided to create one blog for the class to help promote the cross-fertilization of ideas and warm fuzzy feelings between departments.
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