slow design

The Old Wall, painted by Maria Woithofer, is a piece of art that fits with the Reflect principle out of the six Principles from Fuad-Lake’s Slow Design. In this painting, Maria draws a corner of an old house, in which the wall covering was fallen, and the red brick under it reveals in the air….

Interactive Assignment – Amelia Lozada

For my interactive project I chose to make an interactive coded song. First, I started off by choosing a snippet of a song I wanted and then converting it from an mp4 file to midi file. Then upload it to a site that converts the song into a code for Arduino. The outcome ended up…

Joanna Kim – Fuad-Lake’s Slow Design Principles

The anti-energy drink is a prime example of a design that would fit the parameters of two of the six slow design principles. This project consists of two glass bottles joined together in the middle to resemble an hourglass. The bottles are twisted apart to separate them into two portions. The drink that the bottle contains a…

Slow Design Blog Post

Slow Design Blog Post Artwork “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) Description of Work A pile of candy (ideally weighing the same as an adult male). Visitors take candy from the work. Image How does the project fit the principles Principle 3: Reflect is shown because this work is an allegory to the life of…

Interactive Assignment

Title: Pulsing Heart (prototype for final project) For my interactive project I made a pulsing heart. The idea is that when you cup it in your hand(s) the circuit will light up replicating a human heart beat. This version is different from what will be done in the final project, but here in order to…

“Communication” Assignment #4: Interactive Assignment

Title: Communication This project is a prototype for the final project. I was hoping to make it bigger, detachable, and take the lights from the circuit playground and onto the neopixel strip. Purpose: Nonverbal positive/negative expression of emotion between the main user and a secondary audience. Inspiration: I was inspired by the wearable project requirements…

Interactive Project Proposal

Student Name: Mackenzie Carlson Title: Set-Tracking Boxing Gloves Project or Assignment Summary: I’ve been doing MMA for years now and occasionally I can lose track of how many punches I’ve done in a set. I decided to make a solution for this by using the circuit playground express in tandem with my boxing gloves to track…

Interactive Project Proposal – Amelia Lozada

Student Name: Amelia Lozada Title (tentative): Music Box  Project or Assignment Summary: I will be recycling a suitcase record player that I no longer use in order to create a “music box”. On this record player there is an adjuster for speed that I thought would be fun to play with. I wanted to code…

Interactive Project Proposal – Cristian Barrera

Student Name: Cristian Barrera Title (tentative): Co-op Vest (Prototype) Project or Assignment Summary: My original idea for this project was to do a wearable controller that would control something, preferably a game of some type. After looking at some of the capabilities of the LED matrix, I thought of doing a wearable with the LED…

Interactive Assignment Proposal

student name : peter liang ban li title : air guitar glove Project or Assignment Summary:       I want to create a project with a circuits playground attach on a glove. With the hand movement the circuits playground will produce the sound in different frequency. And with a pressure sensor it can change the frequency…