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Coil Gun

Improved Coil Gun & Visualization of Electromagnetic Response

Anpu Li

https://youtu.be/xb4wKKtDB-o

Description

We made two modifications on the coil aiming to make it more powerful. First, we bought a photoresistor, and plan to modify the circuit and add one more coil to have a two-stage acceleration. The second change is from a donut shape to a flat pie shape.

The coil gun can be really powerful — enough to send you into jail. However, we are tired of its encounter with hard objects. How would it behave if it meets a hard-yet-soft object: non-Newtonian fluid?

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.130.1
Working with electrons
Play/Games
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Let's Cook

If you're bored, come bake with me!

Nathalia Lin

https://s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/ima.nyu.edu/commlab/leon/nathalia/index.html

Description

After quarantine, I started doing activities that I didn't really have time to do. One of the pass time that I did was baking. Although I am not good at baking, I have been enjoying following different recipes and making my own food. To share this enjoyment, I have created a cook with me project that takes the user through a step-by-step baking process of a strawberry shortcake.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.120.7
Communications Lab
Play/Games
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The Life of Steve

A web-based, Minecraft-themed, interactive story.

Liyang Zhu

https://s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/ima.nyu.edu/commlab/leon/tom/index.html

Description

Minecraft is a very classic and popular sandbox game. It gives the player an extremely high degree of freedom. In the game, players can do anything and have a myriad of very different lives.

In this project, I produced a web-based interactive story and set the account in the context of Minecraft. To give users an immerse experience of Minecraft, the style of the web page is a parody of Minecraft, and all of the images are screenshots from Minecraft. Moreover, inheriting Mincraft's high degree of freedom, this interactive story allows players to make a variety of choices midway through the story and has more than one end, which means the story is not a fixed one! Furthermore, to make the experience more fun, I even added random factors, so that one specific choice may have different results.

The story told by this project can be seen as the story of a hero who becomes powerful step by step and eventually defeats a demon; it can also be seen as a typical development path for a player in Minecraft.

From a technical point of view, the project uses the concept of modules. While the page contains a lot of smooth transitions, all the animations are encapsulated and can be called up quickly. It allows me to add functionality and beautify the visuals while keeping the code neat.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.120.7
Communications Lab
Narrative/Storytelling,Play/Games
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Fortune

A web-based interactive divination project.

Sumner Feng

https://youtu.be/dM7PHJfr27E

Description

Fortune is a web-based interactive divination system, in which users can draw cards to get fortune-telling results. The project also adds diverse characters and stories to the divination process, which hopefully will provide unforgettable experiences for users. The ways of interaction include sound, music, card game. With multiple interactive functions, this project aims to engage users in the imagined world “the forgotten land”.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.135.1
Creative Coding Lab
Narrative/Storytelling,Play/Games
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Ubiquitous gaze

It's a project let you to be scared and have a deep thought.

Ran Xu

https://youtu.be/Rs_UJo7cXY0

Description

The project is in the room. When people go in, they will see the “eye wall” , which will let them feel scared. They will know that if they press the button under the eyes to open the flashlight, the eyes will close. Cause when people meet very hard light, they will close their eyes. Due to the scared of it, people will press the button. But the eyes will open faster and faster, and all the eyes will open finally. And then they will think ways to let eyes close. They will see a switch of the light. When they turn on the switch. All the eyes will open at the same time. And then it will the words that tell people the significance of this experience.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.101.1
Interaction Lab
Play/Games
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Untitled Rhythm Game

A simple and fun rhythm game.

Chaoyi Wang

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SBZWOA47HPwKYqX3fHdOOrngrWMYS9vu/view?usp=sharing

Description

This is a rhythm game created in Processing and can be played with four keys on a computer. It's my first attempt to create a computer game so it only has one half piece of music and the codes are messy. However, I still managed to realize as many rhythm game features as possible. For example, there are hit sounds and hit indications, combo number, score, grades, and the game reads the chart from a txt file. I will possibly continue this project in the future and eventually make it a mobile game for everyone to play.

*The “Learn more” below will take you to the files of this project so you can download them and play if you have Processing installed*

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.101.4
Interaction Lab
Play/Games
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The Rescue Arm

A virtual arm controlled by the physical arm, could be applied to complete certain task in difficult geography areas.

Ziqi Yan

https://youtu.be/NXBM4-gIrog

Description

This is a robot hand which can go through extreme geographical situations and rescue people or does other tough tasks which human are not able to get access in person.

To make the hand mimic the human biological movement, there will be a receiving arm ties to the user’s arm and send the joint move and the grip pressure to the computer. There will also be an acting arm made of special materials that can get through all kinds of tough situations and do the task on the scene. The acting arm will also and has a camera attached sending the real-time video to the computer. The computer will show the current scene of the acting arm to the user, the user can adjust their following movement according to the real-time reflection.

However, in this project, I am not going to build an acting arm, but I will show the corresponding scene by sketching it out by Processing.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.101.3
Interaction Lab
Play/Games,Wearables
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Star & Your Own Place

Star is a soft toy that brings people warmth and support, and tell kids what to do when they face sexual abuse.

Yayuan Zheng

https://wp.nyu.edu/joycezheng/2020/04/27/week-11-toy-design-prototyping-assignment/

Description

Star is a soft, bright yellow, a human-like star with a red heart. Star’s red soft heart can be opened, with a 3D-printed hard heart into it. Star also has a small, delicate small room, with a pillow, quilts, a book, a phone, a wood knife in it. So far she has two sets of clothes, one is a loose comfortable T-shirt and another is a sexy camisole & skirt. Players can choose to make beddings/clothes/scarves for Star by themselves. The big idea of my project is to create something for people, especially females that can make them feel warm, support, and independence. After communicating with Marcela, I also added some accessories about how to save yourself from sexual abuse to tell people how to protect themselves, so the toy is a combination of two parts. The ‘Empathy’ in the project first refers to the share feelings of warmth, support, independence, second refers to the knowledge share of reactions against sexual abuse. This concept comes from Li Xingxing, a 14-year-old girl who suffers from sexual abuse. The overall sense of purpose is to help people to live a better life, gaining mental strength and relief from the stuffed toy. After adding the accessories, there is also an educational purpose. Generally, the players can sleep with Star if they want, and they can place Star in its room when needed, they can also DIY clothes/accessories for Star if they want.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.238.1
Toy Design and Prototyping
Play/Games
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Bubble!

Bubble is a 3D-printed little cat who loves drinking bubble tea.

Yayuan Zheng

https://wp.nyu.edu/joycezheng/2020/04/04/blog-post-project-02/

Description

The toy is a ragdoll cat called Bubble, who has strong muscles and loves drinking bubble teas. I designed this for my friend Jasmine, who loves ragdoll cat and bubble teas so much. Bubble is strong because Jasmine is in our school’s volleyball team and always hits me as the strength that she thinks is small. I designed 4 back-up bubble teas in different favors based on the bubble teas we have had together, and Jasmine can switch the bubble tea in Bubble’s hat every day.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.238.1
Toy Design and Prototyping
Play/Games
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Magic Shadow Puppet

To create more interactive experiences based on the preservation of traditional Chinese culture.

Jiyan Wang

https://wp.nyu.edu/jiyanwilliamwang/2020/05/10/virtual-show-video-documentation/

Description

Shadow Puppetry is one of the intangible cultural heritages that has history of over thousands of years. My project is based on the performance of shadow puppet but put it in a more interact way that audience can control the whole performance themselves, which is different from the traditional counterpart that the controller has to be behind the scene.

I use the Ultrasonic Ranger to detect the distance from audience to the sensor so that the servo motor will move the shadow puppet as well. In this way we can see the performance of the shadow puppet and performance along with it as well. As for the set up, my project will be put in a dark room with only light on the puppet. We are able to see audience's shadow as well. Moreover, there will also be a background music and it can change its volume due to the movement of the audience.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.101.5
Interaction Lab
Culture,Play/Games