Category Archives: Designing for Digital Fabrication

Reading, You

Allison Ye

A biodata composition generated in real time.

http://vimeo.com/allisonye

Description

A heart rate monitor connects to each musician and the serial data feeds into Max/MSP, signaling the chair light interface which acts as the composition for each musician to play.

Classes

New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Designing for Digital Fabrication

Sensing Auroras

Clara Juliana Santamaria Vargas

Mixing 3D printing, lights and feelings to help us encase things that we can't hold.

www.csantamariav.com

Description

Using light to communicate feelings, emotions and inner states trough beautifully design 3D printing objects inspired by intricate designs of traditional lanterns and knitting.

Classes

Appropriating Interaction Technologies, Appropriating Interaction Technologies, Designing for Digital Fabrication

[GL]: (aka Geo-Luminosity)

Chinazo Rena Anakwe

A Study of Sacred Geometry and Kinetic, Architectural Landscapes.

http://aspaceforsound.com/blog/itp-winter-show-2014-gl-geo-luminosity/

Description

[GL]: Geo Luminosity is a study of sacred geometry, light and layered space. In the form of four shadowboxes, the focus is to transform a space and through a user controlled interaction through the illumination of negative space. Internal gear systems allow users to alter patterns of light, through kinetic movement. Created with digitally fabricated designs and 3D rendering, ‘[GL]’ utilizes traditional, manual fabrication, the CNC router and the laser cutter to create layers of space and light.

Classes

Designing for Digital Fabrication

Igloo – Connected Lamp

Batu Sayici

A lamp that lets you know when someone is coming home.

http://http://batusayici.com/?p=506

Description

If your home could sense the physical proximity of those who live in it, how would it communicate this knowledge? Through which form would this knowledge be best represented in a way that is natural and enjoyable?

Light changes space more than anything. Light fills the space and its presence or lack thereof is impossible to ignore. The only thing that changes space as much is people. People and light complete a space in ways nothing else can.

Igloo is a lamp that connects to one or more persons' phone GPS and represents their proximity as light.

Classes

Designing for Digital Fabrication, 3D Printing Luxury

Mechanical Puppet

Dimelsa Medina

WHO IS PULLING THE STRINGS?<br />
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Create an interactive animatronic that reflects the interaction between the humans and the machines.

http://www.dimelsamedina.com/ITPBlog/project-development-studio-mechanical-puppet/

Description

I have always been captivated by the conversion of motion and power that takes place within a machine and the way all the autonomous mechanisms form a whole and work together. By using a Kinect, a webcam, and a series of motors, I would like to give “life” to a puppet, and study the interaction of the audience/user with this object.

Classes

Automata: Telling Stories with Machines, Designing for Digital Fabrication, Project Development Studio

Chasing Double Rainbows

Michelle Chandra

"Chasing Double Rainbows" visualizes the ephemeral phenomena known as double rainbows by mapping geo-tagged photographs posted to Instagram in the previous 24 hours (chasingdoublerainbows.com) .

http://www.chasingdoublerainbows.com/

Description

Chasing Double Rainbows (www.chasingdoublerainbows.com) visualizes the ephemeral phenomena known as double rainbows by mapping geo-tagged photographs posted to Instagram in the previous 24 hours. The visualization connects users who witnessed a double rainbow closest in time to each other by drawing a rainbow arc between each sequential sighting.

The visualization was inspired by a YouTube video by Paul “Bear” Vasquez whose effervescent euphoria for double rainbows captured the world. Today, Paul's video has over 40 million views. Chasing Double Rainbows is neither a scientific, nor serious visualization, but a facetious data art project celebrating the universal fascination created by the sighting of a double rainbow.

Instagram has over 350,000 public photographs tagged #doublerainbow. In a given 24-hour period, depending on rainy weather conditions world-wide and luck, Chasing Double Rainbows visualizes anywhere between 30 – 300 geo-tagged photographs.

A double rainbow is an optical illusion in which two rainbows are seen. The illusion is created by the reflection of two rainbows in a rain droplet.

A physical map visualizes real time data and was made using plexiglass, wood and cardboard. The continent where the most recent double rainbow was sighted is lit using neopixel leds.

The online visualization was built using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, D3.js, Instagram API, and the Google Geocoding API.

Classes

Creative Javascript, Designing for Digital Fabrication