The past Monday I went on a delightful stroll to Kenmore & Bowery, the street where all the light shops live apparently. One my trip, I tried to examine how the light fixtures were made and what materials were used. There were many shops to visit, so I will try to list them out in […]
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Energy Wk 3: Kinetic Project
Sukanya, Sid and I worked came up with many ideas. Below are some of the sketches – it was not easy for us to decide. After many different ideas and exploration, we decided to make a kinetic hammer. We were inspired by Professor David Rios’ kinetic pedal synth. See here for reference video: https://vimeo.com/66357163 So […]
Light Wk 2: Observations
Early Morning Exterior: Sunday, 02/10/19, 10:41 AM Midwood, Brookyln This is not that early morning and almost noon time as the shadows indicates. The shadows are slanted at around 4pm/ 5pm on a clock, which makes a lot of sense since this was taken near 11am morning. They are also crisp and create dark, cool […]
Light Wk 2: Candle
Code here Interaction: When you touch the circle “button”, the light will go to flickering state. If the button is pressed for 2 seconds, the light goes to “wild” flickering state. If the button is pressed for another 2 seconds, the light will go off. After 5 seconds of being off, the candle will light […]
Subtraction Wk 2: The Other Mill
Very exciting to use the The Other Mill! Again, I combined this with my light & interactivity class, and cut sensor and led holders for my candle enclosure. See final images and process for the candle here. I followed the step by step procedure on the ITP subtraction site. 1.) Made measurements of my parts […]
Energy Wk 2: Induction
Our kinetic energy group (Sukanya, Sid and I) tried out a few steps using the stepper motor. a.) We used the stepper motor, this is AC so we needed to add the diode rectifier to convert it to DC. We added a 470 µF capacitor, after the diode rectifier and before the LED in the […]
Energy Wk 1: Flash an LED with a Motor
Before realizing that we needed to power the led with either a magnet and coil or a dc motor, I looked into a couple of other different ways to power the led with kinetic energy. One of the more intriguing ideas I stumbled upon was the piezoelectric. I found this schematic online that I found […]
Light Wk 1: Interruptable LED Fade, Toaster Lamp
Code can be found on: github — a.) I tried to combine this fading led project with my subtraction assignment, which was to make this awkward circle with a cut through it. As I was looking at the diagram for the piece we needed to make, I realized it looked a lot like a toaster! So, I […]
Light Wk 1: Observations
Outdoor: Thursday, 1/31/19, 8:21 AM Broadway & 2nd St., New York City A white orb of a sun rises from the east. It is amazing how the sun looks when captured on camera. The sun itself is the whitest spot in this photo. If I used the eyedropper to determine the color of the sun, […]
Subtraction Wk 1: Hand Router
This is a fun tool to use! I followed along with the instructions on this page: https://itp.nyu.edu/fab/subtraction/week-1-intros/skill-builder-router/ I also used this opportunity to make an enclosure for my fading led for my Light & Interactivity class. a.) First, I printed out the instructions so it would be easy to follow along. Next I made measurements […]
Emily Lin 