previously: “sex ed mannequin: preshow documentation.” it’s taken a minute to get this up but here we go: photos and final video for the mannequin!
the concept: an interactive, educational installation inside a mannequin. users will open doors and manipulate sensors inside the mannequin to control a flow of information about sexual and reproductive health, presented in processing.
first of all, special thanks to tom igoe, alexandra olivier, and everyone in the ER and shop who were so encouraging of me while i was building these. i probably would have just said screw the whole thing and bought a mega had i not gotten the support that i did. so, i started out [...]
oh you know, just built some FULLY-FUNCTIONAL ARDUINOS. video and more documentation to come but this was too exciting not to post right away.
my first diy arduino has been assembled. testing to occur tonight. let’s hope i can program this to work like my real arduino! if this works, i2c communication is next on the list.
title: “sex ed mannequin” (temporary title) one-sentence summary: this is an interactive, educational sex ed exhibit aimed at girls and young women making decisions about sex, and hopefully can be used as a tool to give them more information in a fun, engaging way.
previously: we begin the mapping process and have a few breakthroughs. next up was the proximity sensor.
when atif, stefanie and i got together to first discuss our media controller project, we had a really hard time figuring out what to do. we knew we wanted to do something incorporating sound, since none of us had worked with it before, and initially we were thinking about incorporating visuals as well. but ultimately [...]
for this week’s observation assignment, i decided to study the self-checkout machines at cvs.
with the stupid pet trick out of the way, this weekend was the perfect time to catch up on the pcomp labs that i had neglected while putting my dissing doorbell together. below, the fruits of my labor: