December 18, 2011 archive

(Final) Twitter News Network

Materials: Samsung TV 1983 Model No. CT-505LD Made in Korea Polaroid TV/VGA Monitor TV static video file downloaded from Medialink Openframeworks V.007 This project was an opportunity to explore dead and lost technology. In this case, the term technology was applied to anything that was essential to our daily life. From handwriting and speech, to …

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rube goldberg experiment : final documentation

group members: Thom, Nate, Firm + Kate here is a video : Project description : Inputs + Outputs : Everything goes by super fast in the video, but to break things down here’s the flow: 1) The power gets activated. (Shown by pushing the ‘test’ button on the power supply) 2) Power activates the motor …

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(Final) Atari Blender

Materials: Dead tech: Atari 2600 Paddle control (1972) Osterizer Blender 8 speeds Purchased on or about 2002 For this project we had to repurpose a dead tech. Our deadline changed and I decided to do a hack that I could tackle. I don’t have much of a background on electronics, other than building very simple …

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Final Project – The Grammoshield

I was lucky enough to win a bet with a friend (something about the melting temperature of a plastic..) and got his superb grammaphone. Here’s what i wanted to do : i will place a woofer inside of the grammaphone’s horn, and connect it to an amplifier, an arduino and a computer. It will basically …

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Final Project : Taste of Email

Final project Lost Tech / Found Tech : Taste of Email  As we are in the digital age when everything is transformed in the screen. Hence we miss some other senses we had with objects as we used to have before. When I think of something ordinary that I do everyday like email, I would want to revive …

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Assignment 1: Low Tech / Rube Goldberg Machine

Assignment 1: Low Tech / Rube Goldberg Machine Balls by Parinot and WenChing Around two weeks before the presentation, we started a new project with a new group. I and WenChing started to pick up some trash from the 4th floor of 66 W building. We found an apple desktop and a power supply. We …

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