Project Development and Planning

To understand what to plan for, I would need to understand the nature of the project. As the task for completing a physical + mechanical project differed far from a virtual-screen-based project like games and visuals. There will be more restrictions in doing a physical project than virtual one due to the nature law of physic, material and cost.

Money Problems:

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During researching I came across this project who Laura Kampf the artist made this Happy Machine herself. It require an adult to cycle where the pivot point will cause the opposite carriage to turn. This simple mechanism I find it interesting that can be inspiration for my project.

However when I look in further, there are many issue such as safety Read more →

continuation from the previous post, part 3 (Initial Project Brief, Specification, Moodboard & Researches),

Project update since the previous post, I decided to shift my focus of the project from ” To build a set of robots that help our FYP Show” to “To build a system that help our FYP show”. The Basic direction and everything is still the Read more →

Research and more research:

Talks: Food Waste symposium at NTU

It was great timing that the school actually put together a symposium on food waste last Wednesday that invited social enterprises over for a 3-hour talk to give audiences insights as well as a panel discussion.

It was a public lecture where I found the attendees to be PHD students, bioscience students Read more →

Exploring the ways to showcase family through the use of sewing. Using the gathered stories and interpret it through sewing an abstract image. Each story will be put together to form a big picture which are different. When the audience goes closer or touch the embroidery, the voices of the different people will be heard through a headphone.

Inspired by the Read more →

After the research, I have I few direction where I can narrow and concentrate on.

In Singapore, a society that is shaped on the belief of meritocracy, the Ps – proving, pleasing, perfecting, performing are so overpowering that many of us land into the dark pit of self-doubt, a sense of not being good enough. Ever since infancy we’ve been trained to hide our natural expressions and also repress the negative but instead to put Read more →

More research!

Further research on food waste has been rather eye opening on this recurrent issue, as there seem to be quite an effort curbing the issue in Singapore.

Just recently on 28 March 2018, there was a Singapore community food festival ‘Feeding the 5000’ that took place at City Square mall. It aims to raise awareness for the 791,000 tonnes of Read more →

Of course I was greatly impressed, like everyone else was, with Matt Adam’s compressed account of Blast Theory’s journey and some future plans in the pipeline.

It is interesting to see the progression the group made over the years (in parallel to the advances we’ve had in digital technology). From the very much dramatically stage-driven performance of Read more →

After some serious thought on the topics i’ve presented on previously,  I decided to go with tackling the topics of Food Waste.

Give the topic a search and tons of articles start to appear from countries across the globe, indicating the seriousness of this social issue.

One might think of a food getting poured into the bin as their first thought of Read more →