For this week, I tried to do inlay acrylic pieces with The Other Mill machine. I decided to do groovy hair clips/ pins using the acrylic scraps from last week. The goal was to aim small and do something I would want to sport! Cut my scrap pieces from last week into more manageable sizes. […]
Category: Spring 2019
Light Wk 3: Time-Lapse Observation
Tuesday, 02/19/19, 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM NYU on Broadway This is the view from the 10th floor of a NYU building. The building faces south, so the window is showing the sun move from east to west. Because this was recorded when the sun has already risen, the change in the color of […]
Light Wk 3: Light Shops!
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 […]
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 […]
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