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SurveillAnts

Gal Nissim, Leslie E Ruckman

This project is created to evoke curiosity about non-human life, and wonder in emergent intelligence and systemic patterns.

Description

This collaboration is inspired by a deep interest in the way people perceive non-human animals and questioning the similarities that can be drawn between humans and all living creatures. The main theme of our project is seeing the unseen. We aim to communicate this in three different ways. First, through the structure we have built, we allow a view into the unseen, underground tunnels of ants. Second, through computer vision tracking and projection mapping, we visualize the chemical pheromone trails ants leave behind as they explore their space in real time. Third, we record and collect the paths of the ants in order visualize movements over time. Through the data collected, viewers are invited to explore the movement of the ants over time, revealing colorful drawings and potentially, unseen patterns in the daily activities of ants.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing, Introduction to Computational Media

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Roots

Isabel Paez

Technology can take us back to our Roots

Description

I have been doing a lot of work and research for the design of my Museum for Cabinets of Wonder. The Museum of Ancient Rituals where the visitors will be taken into an experience that will try to take them back to their roots and explain the importance of the knowledge our native ancestors had. For my Printing Code final I am designing a whole Typography with shapes of roots and for my Temporary Expert final I am creating the work I want to show in the ITP Winter Show. This project will be a painting/sculpture that will light up and play music when people stand in front to contemplate the piece. The roots will be divided into four different colors and materials; each one will represent an element (Air, Earth, Fire, Water). A musician is composing the music because each element has a specific instrument that represents it. When all the roots have been light up the shape of a human will appear with its legs as the

roots.

Th code is working perfectly I only have to finish the physical building aspect which is the easy part for me.

Classes

Cabinets of Wonder, Printing Code, The Temporary Expert: Research-based Art and Design Practice

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Minion Circuit

Tanya Campbell, Yining Shi

Learn some introductory circuit relationships by holding hands with this Minion.

http://www.tanyacampbell.org/category/live-web

Description

An introductory circuit learning experience that illustrates the differences between an open and closed circuit + a large resistance vs. small resistance.

When you hold the Minion’s hand, you complete his internal circuit and an LED lights up. When the Minion’s hands are left unheld, his LED will remain unlit.

The minion circuit is linked to a website that provides visual feedback when the circuit is open/closed. When the circuit is open, the Minion will frown, while on the other hand, if the circuit is closed, the Minion will smile.

As for resistance, we mapped a potentiometer to control the colors of an RGB LED. When the RGB LED is red, that means there is a high resistance present, which will result in a dim LED. When yellow, there is a medium amount of resistance present, and when green that means there’s a low amount of resistance present.

Stay tuned for more updates and videos on this topic.

Classes

Live Web

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Cheeks, Chin, Eyes, Nose, Lips and the rest of US

Ella Dagan Peled

an interactive deconstructing photobooth/image maker

http://www.ella-dagan.com/cheeks-chin-eyes-nose-lips-and-the-rest-of-us/

Description

an interactive portrait photo-booth like experience in which the face of the person who is using it deforms and dissolves with each click over time.

Eventually, if the person clicks enough times, the portrait will resemble all other portraits in it’s disintegration. Every mouse click on the canvas takes a picture and the more clicks, the more pieces the portrait divides into. When hovering over the canvas, the pieces change and exposed pieces from previous pictures. When pressing on the CONTROL key the sketch gets reload, and when pressing on the ENTER key the canvas is saved.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media

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The Clock Project

Zhuoxi Song

A beautiful website enlivened by gorgeous scenes from our beloved hometowns across the globe

http://theclockproject.net/

Description

The Clock Project is a website that reminds us of how far we've been aways from our beloved hometowns. With a clock showing current local time in a remote hometown, followed by videos consisted of hometown scenes that used to be easy to see but now thousands of miles away, viewers will feel the distance to beloved homes.

Classes

Art Strategies, Introduction to Computational Media

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Dhish

Denny George

Dhish is a musical instrument that captures universal percussive gestures like<br />
snapping and clapping to create music.

http://notes.abrain.in/digi-fab-proposal/

Description

I wish to create a novel electronic musical instrument that seems accessible and intuitive to audience.
I am using clapping as my focus for musical gesture.
I feel it is a universally understood gesture with musical connotations in Eastern Music (especially qawalli where its expected for performers AND audiences to clap to keep rhythm) and Western music where people often clap at concerts in rhythm.

There has been a history of using a glove like form for experimental electronic instrument but I feel never addressing the clapping capability of the hand is a missed opportunity. My project aims to explore that.

Eventually I wish to write and perform oral storytelling pieces with my instrument and also be able to give it as a MIDI instrument to other talented musicians to see where they go with it.

[Special Request] I am working on a comedy performance using this musical instrument. I would appreciate if I can get a small room for the ITP show. I remember there was a project by Kaini in Shawn's room last show. I wish to conduct 5 minute shows for 5,6 people one after the other all through the day. I feel it will really help me showcase my project and idea in the contex that I want.

Classes

Designing for Digital Fabrication, Homemade Hardware, New Interfaces for Musical Expression

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Educational 3D Lamps

Marcelo Cespedes

The Educational 3D Lamp is a 3D amazing optical Illusion loaded with low energy technology, with a life expectancy of 13.7 years!

http://www.marcesp.com/?p=377

Description

The “Holographic” Lamp is a combination of 3D amazing optical Illusion and low energy technology. The idea was to trick the mind into thinking it’s looking at a 3D “floating” wire-frame globe using a 2D design.

The light is conducted through the engravings made with the láser on a quarter inch plexiglass.

This lamps was meant to be placed next to the bed. It started as a midterm project but i keep making improvements on the design and in order to provide more functionality, i’m working on adding a iphone holder (with charger) and a USB port to charge any other USB device.

The base of the lamp made from 3 pieces of wood cut with a cnc router and stick together with glue. Almost every part of the lamp (wood, wires,light switch) was recycled.

Loaded with low energy technology, this lamp has a expectancy of 13.7 years!

Classes

Designing for Digital Fabrication

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A Flash in the Pan

Yiting Liu, Yue Hu

Grabbing the star and evoking magic effects.

Description

The basic idea of the project is to evoke lives by grabbing the falling stars and dragging them to the particular positions. The lives are in both virtual and physical world in several forms. To clarify, in virtual world, when gamers grab a star and put it on the tree, the flowers will blossomed. Another, when gamers drag the star to the stone in virtual world, the stone in physical world will be evoked as well.

Through this project, we would like to show that life is short, like the flash in the pan, the meteor shot across the sky. However, life is also infinite and powerful since it could be transformed into various forms and last forever.

In the project, leap motion was used to detect the hand positions and gestures. Moreover, we used Processing to code the virtual effects and Arduino to build the connection within the virtual and physical world.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing

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Poetic Journey

Nai-Chen Yang, Yan Zhao

An interactive installation using Tang Dynasty poetry to bring viewers traveling through the spiritual life of Ancient China.

http://www.ync616.com/2015/12/06/physical-computing-final-project/

Description

The Tang Dynasty is recognized as the Golden Age of Chinese poetry. Wen Ting-Yun’s poem “Setting Out Early from Mount Ding” exemplifies the Tang tradition in its 3rd and 4th sentences, only constiting of six nouns: 雞聲(rooster-crowing),茅店(thatched inn),月(moon), 人跡(track), 板橋(plank bridge), and 霜(frost). Even through these few words, Wen Ting-Yun vividly evokes a traveler’s mood via excellent inverted sentences and elegant parallel construction.

Our physical computing project is an installation showing the beauty of this Tang poem in an interactive way. It includes a screen, a scrolling mechanism (made by an RFID reader) and six stamps (made by RFID tags) with words. If the viewer stamps the words in order on the paper from the scrolling mechanism, they can rebuild the spot of the poem on the screen and witness the spiritual life of the Tang Dynasty. In the end, the viewer can keep the poem they recreate and take it away as a souvenir.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

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The ITP's Mind

Michelle Hessel

An interactive ITP brain sketch that will allow user to understand what moves/intrigues each of the 1st year student.

http://www.techaboom.com/theitpbrain/

Description

The “inQuery” is a project from ITP's Applications Class in which all the 1st year students must write a blog post about a topic that they are curious about. This is an opportunity in which we are invited to talk about anything that we feel passionated or indignant about. Throughout the semester I found myself very interested in what people were saying and because of that I made a javascript interactive screen visualization of this data. The sketch has the shape of a brain in which nodes move around. The idea is that user will be able to touch the brain nodes and discover each inquiry, its author's name and e-mail. User can also search for specific terms or names. My intention is for people to find interests in common, connect with each other and discuss more about it, whether the user is from ITP or not.

Classes

Applications, Introduction to Computational Media