Laser Cutter Workflow

We’re fortunate to have our own laser cutter in the ITP shop, the Epilog Mini Laser with a 12″x24″ cutting bed. Because students design on their personal laptops but must move these files to single PC terminal that is calibrated to control the machine, any project that requires any revisions after the first cut presents [...]

Projections From Above

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In the world of ITP hackery, you often want to get a projector off the table and projecting on a less convenient surface [...]

Eyes Wide Shut

If you could look at yourself with your eyes closed, what would you see? Usually, the only time we get to see our closed eyes is in photographs. I wondered, could we create an application that allows us to review the appearance of expressions when our eyes are closed in some kind of real-time experience?

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Mobile Web Homework #2

We were asked to play around with Firebug, a great little tool for watching changes to HTML and CSS markup languages change how webpages look on the fly. The tool is more elegant than my description suggests. Below, a before-and-after screenshot of some tomfoolery using Firebug on the PhoneGap test app code.

I [...]