Category Archives: Soft Circuits

Circuits ~ hand-drawn guides for conductive thread

4-in-4 @ ITP ~ Thursday: Soft Circuit Prototype

Goal: Build a soft circuit before midnight Prototyping ~ Day Two On the last day of the 4-in-4, I worked with my collaborator, Anna Pinkas, to build a functioning soft circuit prototype for our interactive art piece, I stop somewhere, waiting for you. We prepared … Read More

Prototyping electronics ~ I stop somewhere

4-in-4 @ ITP ~ Wednesday: Building Circuits

Goal: Prototype a soft circuit project before midnight. Concept For the last two days of the 4-in-4, I’m collaborating with Anna Pinkas on a piece of visual art that investigates “technology for technology’s sake” and “art for art’s sake” — a postmodern circuit. Anna described … Read More

The Kiss

Interactive Letter Box ~ Progress Log and Prototype Demo for Final Project

Introduction to Physical Computing Professor Dan O’Sullivan Introduction to Computational Media Professor Danny Rozin Concept Inspired, in part, by a collection of letters my grandfather wrote my grandmother during World War Two, and the work of Janet Cardiff and Heidi Kumao, “Letter Box” explores the … Read More

A black and white image of a World-War-II-era telegram, handwritten letters, and photographs of a family

Interactive Letter Box ~ Technical Considerations for Final Project

Introduction to Physical Computing Professor Dan O’Sullivan Introduction to Computational Media Professor Danny Rozin User Experience: Proof of Concept Prototype You see a large, rectangular piece of paper on the table in front of you. A desk lamp shines light on the page, revealing three … Read More

Picture of sheets of notebook paper in orderly piles on which words have been written

Interactive Letter Box ~ Concept Development for Final Project

Introduction to Physical Computing Professor Dan O’Sullivan Introduction to Computational Media Professor Danny Rozin User Experience Imagine: A dim room. A light shining down on a closed cigar box decorated with stamps. You open it and find inside a jumble of letters, still in their … Read More