The commuter ride a.k.a The spinning Machine – Daniel Barrera

If you’ve ever been to the museum of Science and Industry then most likely you have come across their giant miniature scale model of Chicago that comes with working model trains that go from the city to the countryside. If you travel to the city frequently like myself then most likely you have taken public transportation…

Slow design principles – Daniel Barrera

When I read over the 6 design principles I kept thinking back to the artist, Gabriel Orozco and his take on everyday objects. Orozco’s work focus on that fragile relationship with those everyday objects. one of those pieces is “Ping Pond Table”. It follows principle 2 which is “evolve” and principle 5 which is “participate”….

Creative Switch: Iron Man Hand Light by Daniel Barrera

Inspired by Iron Man, I wanted to make an Iron Man hand blaster. Not a blaster in a sense that it can destroy things but rather to blast light so basically a hand light. In the movies, Iron Man usually opens his hand to power up his hand blaster and then closes it to turn…

Assignment 1 (final) – Daniel Barrera

Here is my final version of Assignment 1. here i kept a lot of things the same but added more actions to the UFO. This time it shoots rays at the satellite as if drawing energy from it. Space is pretty big so the planets are in place but when moving around the mouse while…

Processing assignment 1 – Daniel Barrera

I knew I wanted to do something in space as soon as i saw what you can do with shapes in processing. here I have a blue planet, a sun, a black hole, a satellite, some UFOs (one of which can move around) and a lot of stars.  something that you cant see is that…