Final Project (+ Interactive post) – Snakey Vest

——– Interactive Project ——– For my project I wanted to prototype a game on the Arduino and make something interactive for people to enjoy. At first, I was going to do an installation where two people would play a game, but I wanted to do something a little different than a game on display. After…

Thinking Cap Creative Switch By: Tamae Douglas

For this creative switch project I decided to attempt making a thinking cap. By simply putting on  a pair of glasses an idea is formed, indicated by lights that appear on top of the hat. Materials Needed hot glue/tape glasses hat 2 white LED lights 6 voltage battery pack( 2 three voltage batetries) red and…

Kisai Keisan LED watch

This is an aluminum watch that displays the time (and date) using a series of colored LED lights. The numbers are displayed in four vertical columns that contain the appropriate numbers. If the number is too high (like 7), there will be two numbers in a column the wearer must add together (3+4). There is a clear…

A Semi-Practical LED Mod from AlterEGlow

AlterEGlow is a UK website that made this odd and somewhat useful LED-lit faucet that they have dubbed Glow Flow. Though completely unnecessary, they somehow installed LED lights inside a faucet and they turn the lights on when the water runs. In the dark, it brightens the entire sink with the color of the LED….

Crystal Blue Bawls Bottle

Crystal Blue Bawls Light! Wild LED Light Project! – The best video clips are right hereThis video shows the whole process that was made in order to make the LED Bottle. I find that the bottle looks really cool once it is finished, and it surprises me, how simple the video makes it all seem….

Jaume Plensa’s “The Crown Fountain” in Millenium Park

This is The Crown Fountain in Chicago’s own Millenium park. There are two 50 ft. glass towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool. Plensa took pictures of the faces of 1,000 Chicago residents, and they faces are displayed onto the LED screens. There is a water outlet giving the illusion that these faces…