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Device of the week

Martin

Tuesday, Oct 04, 2016 - 03:45:04 pm

@ Katlagrottan

Musi is a interactive sequencer that allows the musician to interact with the shape through placing the cubes on different length from the musi. Its also modular and can be expanded with more than one shape at the time.

https://vimeo.com/156031039

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Idea of the week: ProPILOT chair

Cindy Chan

Tuesday, Oct 04, 2016 - 12:56:08 pm

@ C I N D Y

ProPILOT

Japanese automobile manufacturer Nissan has developed robotic self-driving chair to solve a truly first-world problem – having to stand in line and queue to get something you want.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP1KGwMAAe8

How?

The chairs are equipped with cameras that senses the chair in front, following it to the front of the line. When the person in front gets up to enter the restaurant, the Read more →

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Device of the week: Navly

Jane Bertheim

Tuesday, Oct 04, 2016 - 12:45:00 pm

@ Janes portfolio

In september this year an experimental free shuttle service featuring electric, driverless busses launched in Lyon, France, the first of its kind in the world! The bus transport 15 people at the same time and are run completely autonomously and don’t have pedals or a steering wheel, though for now each have a human operator on board.

It features a 1,350 meter (about Read more →

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Final Project Pitch - Wearable with lights

Cindy Chan

Tuesday, Oct 04, 2016 - 12:25:35 pm

@ C I N D Y

Inspiration:

Emoi’s Smart Lamp Speaker –  Speaker + Lamp + Speakerphone + Alarm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgbCm3KpkIs

Smart Lamp

With reference to Emoi’s Smart Lamp Speaker, I have decided to make an interactive DIY lamp for my Final Project.

The main objective of this lamp is to be able to react by changing colours or brightness and respond to sounds in response to its environment.

Some of the Read more →

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Final project pitch -Purifying wheels

Chou

Tuesday, Oct 04, 2016 - 11:15:56 am

@ Ting Chou

The objective is to create and experience serenity and practise meditation.

So I researched on a spiritual object, prayer wheels. In Tibet, It’s spun to send prayers out into the universe, cleanse the soul.  Prayer wheels are used for meritorious effect such as orally reciting the prayers without reciting the mantra.

Objective for my project: a device can help people to exercise meditation Read more →

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dotw5: Sensible Data

Yi Xian

Tuesday, Oct 04, 2016 - 09:53:33 am

@ The Forge

Martin Hertig’s Sensible Data is an art installation made out of 3 interactive devices. It invites participants to make a physical passport through 3 distinct steps. The devices are modified variants of Piccolo CNC (an open source machine which uses arduino) and a Raspberry Pi coordinates all 3 machines to create a seamless process.

First, the participant takes a selfie Read more →

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ume | project proposal

Yi Xian

Tuesday, Oct 04, 2016 - 02:28:18 am

@ The Forge

Updated Monday, 10 Oct 2016*

Context / Rationale In this modern era, we constantly receive a barrage of information from social media, instant messaging and telecommunication. Ironically, despite having more means of communication and being perpetually ‘online’, we are getting more detached and disconnected from one another. We’re bombarded with information and always aware of what our peers are doing, eating, watching, Read more →

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Device of the Week: LEB

Nat

Tuesday, Oct 04, 2016 - 01:57:23 am

@ GohNat

LEB (Light Emitting Ball) is a ball that is filled with LED strips and it reacts to sound and motion.

Inspired by TeamLabs Light Ball Orchestra, i tried to search for something similar but more compact and portable – which was the LEB.

Being able to grab it with your hand, there is the idea of portability and possibly engaging in Read more →

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Final Project Pitch: [un]controllable

Nat

Tuesday, Oct 04, 2016 - 12:45:17 am

@ GohNat

Overview: This project is about using 5 hourglasses as the device. When they are being turned over, each hourglass will produce different variation of a certain sound based on different sand levels.

Context: The idea behind this project is to engage people to play with the hourglasses to either see what sounds can be produced or to try and get the sound that Read more →

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Device of the week: Knocki

Viktor Sieger

Friday, Sep 30, 2016 - 12:34:37 pm

@ viktor.sieger

Make any surface in your home interactive with Knocki! Use simple patterns when knocking on the surface to control other devices. You can for example turn lights on or off, find your lost phone, set or snooze an alarm or brew coffee from the bed.

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