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10.02.09
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05.06.09Thermal Clock
We rely heavily on our vision to identify change. We see sand accumulating at the bottom of the hourglass. We see the minute hand rotate clockwise. How would our sense of time change if we cast time to another sense? Thermal Clock is a timepiece that positions heat along a bar over a 24 hour […]
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05.05.09Cinematic Timepiece
Time is our measure of a constant beat. We use seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, etc. But what if we measured time against rituals, chores, tasks, stories, and narratives? How can we use our memory, prediction, familiar and unfamiliar narratives to tell time? As a child, I remember using the length […]
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05.05.09
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05.05.09Counting to a Billion
As a child, I remember challenging myself to count to 1000, 1 million, or 1 billion. I don’t think I ever made it. Why do we aimlessly count? How long would it take to count to a billion? Counting to a Billion is a device created to fulfill the desire to count. The electronics consists […]
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03.21.091 Hour Sprocket Clock
How accurate does a clock need to be? Most household clocks display time with 3 mechanical movements; the hour, on a 12 hour cycle; minutes past the hour; and seconds past the minute. How crucial is it for us to know how many seconds are past the minute? Do we need to know the exact […]
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01.07.09
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12.11.0821st Century Confession Booth
The 21st Century Confession Booth is a service for anyone to anonymously unload the burden of a sin or secret. Confessions can be dropped off by entering them on the web at confessionbot.com , by calling 718-406-0483, or by finding one of our public confession microphones. Messages are anonymously transcribed and posted to twitter.com/confessionbot. Behind […]
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12.07.08
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11.25.08P.Life V2
plife at IAC from che-wei wang on Vimeo. P.Life is a large scale interactive screen designed for the IAC’s 120′ wide video wall. In the world of P.Life, Ps run across the 120′ screen frantically moving material from one house to another. Along the way, Ps exchange pleasantries (based on text message inputs) as they […]
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11.20.08Elevator P
Elevator P interprets random conversation in an elevator into poetry and publishes them immediately on twitter. Using a hidden microphone, Elevator P captures unexpected chatter, un-staged and raw. The interpreter elevates mundane elevator conversations into beautiful flowing poetry capturing the deep essence of each dialogue. Haiku Poetry. http://twitter.com/chatterbot
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11.07.08
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10.23.08
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10.16.08
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10.09.08
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10.02.08Tilt Sensor to Live Web
Tilting my laptop changes the background color of a div element on a webpage. [Live Tilt] An applet reads tilt sensor values from my laptop, posts them to sensorbase.org, then a webpage running ajax reads the sensor values and changes a background color. LIVE. It’s super slow right now because I can’t figure out how […]
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09.24.08P.Life
P.Life is a large scale interactive screen designed for the IAC’s 120′ wide video wall. In the world of P.Life, Ps run around growing, living, and dying, as the landscape continuously changes creating unexpected situations challenging their existence. Scenario Screen fades from black to dawn and rising sun along a horizon. The bottom third of […]
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08.09.08
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04.13.08Tetherlight
Tetherlight is a hand held light that perpetually points at its sibling. Two Tetherlights constantly point at each other, guiding one Tetherlight to the other with a beam of light. Tetherlight: Prototype 02 Rotation from che-wei wang on Vimeo. The devices are each equipped with a GPS module, a digital compass, and a wireless communication […]
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04.13.08Feedback Playback
FeedBack PlayBack is an interactive, dynamic film re-editing/viewing system that explores the link between media consumption and physiological arousal. This project uses galvanic skin response and pulse rate to create a dynamic film re-editing and veiwing system. The users’ physical state determines the rhythm and length of the cuts and the visceral quality of scenes […]
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04.13.08GSR Reader
Galvanic skin response readings are simply the measurement of electrical resistance through the body. Two leads are attached to two fingertips. One lead sends current while the other measures the difference. This setup measures GSR every 50 milliseconds. Each reading is graphed, while peaks are highlighted and an average is calculated to smooth out the […]
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04.08.08
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03.12.08Soft Pneumatic Exoskeleton : Ankle Support
The ankle support is a low profile sleeve around the foot and a strap at the heel to connect to the air muscle. A shorter 12″ muscle connects the ankle support to the calf. The calf attachment is now constructed out of a single piece of leather with nylon reinforcement at the top to prevent […]
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03.12.08Air Muscle Connection
The most common point of failure in all the test have been the connection at the collar around each end of the air muscles. The inflation of the muscle along with the tension force rip through the threads around the collar, so I’ve reinforced those points with rivets with some room to expand.
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03.12.08
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03.12.08Soft Pneumatic Exoskeleton : V 01 Test
After the first round of testing, I realized assisting jumping with pneumatics is nearly impossible. The size of the tubes and tank necessary to get a high enough cfm to actuate the air muscles at the speed of jumping seems too large for a lightweight wearable application. So, I’m going to concentrate on assisting walking. […]
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03.11.08Same Food Same Poison
So if the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention is somewhat true, is it simply the established economic ties between countries that prevent wars? How about the shared experience of eating the same food? Listening to the same music, watching the same movies, speaking the same language, wearing the same clothes? Could a globalized culture […]
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03.03.08With Other
How can we share our unmitigated desire for sex, eating, and drinking? Drooling, like blushing is often beyond our control. Good food, or just thinking of tasty food can make people drool. With Other is an amorphous teledrooling device. It comes in pairs, soft, and shaped like a smooth pebble. Each is equipped with a […]
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02.29.08Soft Pneumatic Suit : Prototype 01
\ I finally have a full assembly of all the major components sewn with thick canvas and leather. The small scuba tank provides the air pressure, controlled by an Arduino and solenoid valves. The basic operation of pneumatic muscle works. Air pressure at about 100psi inflates the muscle, creating a contracting motion of about 2 […]
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02.18.08Pneumatic Muscle : Solenoid Valve Test
I finally got the solenoid valve hooked up to an air compressor and and arduino board. Air pressure is regulated at 100 psi. It looks like I’m going to need bigger pipes to get more cfm for faster muscle actuation. The shorter muscle has an over sized braided sleeve, which I thought might help the […]
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02.11.08Trust Vision
((image manipulated from original by manitou2121, an interesting composite of faces from hotornot.com)) Why should I trust you? Because you sound trustworthy? Smell trustworthy? Look trustworthy? How do we measure trust? Trust Vision is a personally biased trust measuring video camera. As each frame is presented, a face or faces within the frame are superimposed […]
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02.06.08Window
Urban Computing : Window ((image: pmorgan )) Windows give a frame of reference, crops a view, magnifies a perspective. It filters and blocks. Window is the opening that mediates here from there. I would argue that windows are what give walls meaning. Without windows, there wouldn’t be a notion of “there” since the possibility of […]
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02.06.08Laser Tether : Sketch
Here’s a sketch of how the parts might fit to get the laser to freely point in any direction. 4 servo motors work in tandem to tilt the laser head. Batteries and the circuitry is stored in the bottom half of the cylinder. I was going to have a mechanical gyro to have it orient […]
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02.03.08TeleCursing
Video chat is great, but maybe I don’t want to see your face. Or more likely, I don’t want you to see me sitting at my computer in my underwear. A less intrusive channel of communication, like IM, is often desirable but we lose several modes of expression when we only communicate with text. Could […]
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02.01.08Pneumatic Muscle : Pressure Test
The first set of home brew pneumatic muscles actually work. There’s no leakage and it looks like it holds well over 60 psi. The tiny air reservoir barely holds enough air for 2 actuations, so it looks likes a small scuba tank or a tiny air compressor is going to be needed. Weight tests coming […]
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01.30.08Pneumatic Muscles
Here’s my first set homebrew pneumatic muscles. I’m not sure how strong these are going to be, but it looks promising. The compression fittings aren’t being used the way they were meant to be used, so it’s likely that connection will be the first point of failure when it goes under stress. As soon as […]
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01.30.08Laser Tether
The Laser Tether is a hand held laser pointer that perpetually points at its sibling. Two Laser Tethers constantly point at each other no matter where they are on the globe. If my cousin in Beijing had a Laser Tether and I turned on mine in New York City, our lasers would point towards our […]
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01.28.08Pneumatic Soft Exoskeleton
Pneumatic systems are clean, safe, lightweight, and reliable. In a pneumatic electronic hybrid system, electric components simply control the flow of air pressure, removing the burden of weight and kinetic actuation from electrical power to pneumatic power. The advantage is a lightweight low idle power system with high power kinetic impact. My initial encounter with […]
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01.27.08Talking Face to Face
Talking Face to Face is a networked communication system that detects the position of two users in relation to each other anywhere on the globe. Using a combination of GPS and a compass, the audio output is modified to create the sensation of the voice’s position and proximity to the listener. If Bob is in […]
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12.30.07
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12.25.07
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12.25.07
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12.23.07
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12.19.07
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12.18.07
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12.18.07
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11.22.07moMo : A Haptic Navigational Device
Momo is a haptic navigational device that requires only the sense of touch to guide a user. No maps, no text, no arrows, no lights. It sits on the palm of one’s hand and leans, vibrates and gravitates towards a preset location. Akin to someone pointing you in the right direction, there is no need […]
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11.19.07moMo : version 2
-new compass unit calcuates true north in relation to itself and waypoint (so it points in the right direction even if you spin it) -upgraded to 32 Channel!! ETek GPS module -4 AA batteries powers the entire circuit with 5.6V at 2700mha -a new skeleton ( to be outfitted with a flexible skin soon ) […]
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11.06.07
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10.31.07
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10.28.07
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10.26.07SlaHuRa : Slappable Huggable Radio
SlaHuRa or Slappable Huggable Radio is a FM and AM radio that uses an accelerometer (tilt sensor) to change volume and frequency. There are no buttons to press or dials to spin. Tilting the radio from side to side adjusts the frequency. Tilting it from front to back changes the volume.
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10.21.07
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10.19.07
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10.18.07
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10.15.07
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10.13.07M5 Sights and Sounds
Step on board. Metallic cocoon. Shielded space. Muffled noises. Is there less inside or outside? I’m here. Beep at me. Do you know I’m staring at you? Noises and patterns breed deafness and sameness. Roaring sounds from the back shifts its pitch up and down. Coughs, sneezes, whines, and screams. It’s quiet. Or am I […]
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10.11.07
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10.07.07
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10.03.07A Haptic Navigational Device
A haptic navigational device requires only the sense of touch to guide a user. No maps, no text, no arrows, no lights. HND sits on the palm of one’s hand and leans, vibrates and gravitates towards a preset location. Imagine an egg sitting on the palm of your hand, obeying its own gravitational force at […]
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10.03.07
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10.02.07
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09.17.07Observation: Crosswalk Button
At certain intersections, the city offers a push button at the pedestrian crosswalk with a sign that reads, “To cross street, push botton, wait for signal, wait for walk signal.” Hypothesis: People love to push buttons. It give us a sense of control. So, people push the crosswalk button. And perhaps they push it several […]
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09.06.07
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09.05.07Voltage Current Resistance
It seems like the prefered analogy for voltage, current and resistance uses water with pressured tanks, hoses, etc. The waterfall analogy was the easiest for me to understand. If we draw an analogy to a waterfall, the voltage would represent the height of the waterfall: the higher it is, the more potential energy the water […]