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Device of the week #1: Steel sky- by Christoph De Boeck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETEn52Kq5xI
The device that i want to talk about is the steel sky exhibition by Christoph De Boeck. This exhibition consists of a few steel plates suspended in the sky and rigged next to a high frequency reverb mechanism. The interface is then connected to a wifi headset that gathers 8 signals of brain signals from whoever is wearing it. Using Read more →
Device of the Week 1: Kuri, the Home Robot
Meet Kuri, the Home Robot also marketed as a robot nanny that serves both as a security camera and entertainment companion to the children in the house.
https://www.heykuri.com/living-with-a-personal-robot
Smart Homes are increasingly popular, with a great consumer demand for smart devices from smart TVs, home appliances and now, smart robot helpers. The development of Kuri is a huge step forward Read more →
Device of the Week #1 - DRING SMARTCANE
Company: Dring Alert System & Fayet, a French company specialising in handcrafted canes Technology: GSM and GPS network, accelerometers, gyroscopes
The Dring Smartcane is a walking cane with strategically-designed build-in smart technology around its handle. It is embedded with several motion sensors such as an accelerometer and a gyroscope, programmed to detect any signs of unusual activity from the user, such as Read more →
Device of the Week #01 - ALPHA - rotator
This alpha rotator was created by françois xavier saint georges, showcased in Amsterdam, Original Dampkring Gallery. The rotator are hung on the ceiling and has 6 arms, each with 26 holes that represents a alphabet. To interact with this device, user will place the pencil in each arms’s hole according to the word they wanted. Upon completion, user will need Read more →
Device of the week 1 - Pokemon Go Plus
Pokemon go plus is a small bluetooth device that allows the user to play the mobile game “Pokemon Go” even when not looking at the phone or while the phone is in the locked screen, it will notify the user about the events in the game in realtime like the appearance of Pokemon which the player could catch or the Read more →
Device of the week #1: Joseph Griffith's bicycle drawing machine
Joseph Griffith’s bicycle drawing machine
Materials: Felt-tip markers, exercise equipment, bicycle wheels, steel, aluminium, rope, rubber, timber, plastic, cement, found materials.
2009 Melbourne Fashion Festival
PENTHOUSE MOUSE The Capitol – Toorak Rd. South Yarra Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia
The project consists of a stationary bike, which when pedalled by a user becomes a tool for drawing on a canvas. the spinning front wheel of the bike Read more →
Project 1 - SkinnyMeter [Zi Feng, Bao, Isaac, Su Hwee]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyqrSwIfcZw&feature=youtu.be
The idea of this project is to abandon the perfect expected image that advertising has given us. We hope to reshape the conventional mindset of being skinny is good while advocating that having a balance is more important. Using the pressure sensor to send their weight at least 45kg will give them a different responds starting from scolding Read more →
[Interactive Devices] LED & Pressure Sensors II
LED & Pressure Sensors – Update By Hannah Kwah, Joan Li & Putri Dina
Serial Communication Continuing from last week’s progress, we managed to get the serial communication between MAX and Arduino to work using the following programming.
The additional message we put was the ‘255 R G B’ to send it to the serial communication. Using the code that LPD had given Read more →
[Interactive Devices] LED & Pressure Sensors I
LED & Pressure Sensors By Hannah Kwah, Joan Li & Putri Dina
About The main objective of this project is to create an interactive device by using any of the i-Cubex sensors and an LED strip provided. We are supposed to apply the sensing, computing and effecting methods for our devices to work.
Idea #1 – Light Trail There would be an Read more →
Documentation of project
Our group members consist of me, Maung Phyo Win Zaw, Goh Cher See, Nicholas Makoto and Xin Feng.
For this project, our concept was to create an alarm clock which relies on hand pressure to switch off. The harder one presses on the alarm clock, the less amount of additional snooze time will be Read more →