learning the ropes

things I made at ITP and after: sketches, prototypes, and other documentation

Saturday, August 22, 2009

outside the blog

For the record: In addition to our blog, we have ongoing emails. The initial email might be about scheduling a meeting, and then grow to include questions and research about, well, anything. Here’s an example, after I told Michael I wanted to meet in the city so I could buy a projector, maybe at B&H.
Wendy, Here’s about an hours worth of searching.  I stumbled onto pico pocket projectors.  Let me know if you want me to back out to “normal” projectors and see about low cost.  My view is that the small projectors could be a good prototyping tool for you in the same way that the photo frames and the XActi camera are.  You may even be able to connect your XActi to one of these. Michael
(The email had an attached  PDF)
posted by wendy at 1:03 pm  

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Lists (a start)

Interactions:

  • Cranking
  • Sitting or standing (eg a switch, or weight)
  • Proximity
  • Motion detection
  • Pulling/pushing
  • Running (e.g. treadmill)
  • Color detection
  • Sound (e.g. of you clap, it turns something on)
  • Opening/closing (e.g. door, window, drawer)
  • Positional sensing
  • Hitting keys
  • etc…

Static Type:

  • Spray paint
  • Silk screen
  • etching
  • Letterpress
  • Stencil
  • Cut out
  • Scratch
  • Burn
  • Scribble
  • Sandblast
  • Woodblock
  • Magic marker
  • Pencil
  • Typewriter
  • Sewn/needlepoint
  • Neon
  • LED
  • etc…

Materials:

  • clay
  • Wood
  • Cardboard
  • Plastic
  • Styrofoam
  • Cloth
  • Paper
  • Glass
  • Metal
  • Rubber
  • Screen
  • Leather
  • Carpet
  • Grass
  • Sand
  • Food
  • Concrete
  • etc…

Typographic manipulations:

  • Letter spacing
  • Line spacing
  • Bigger/smaller
  • Fonts (reg, bold, italic, black, condensed, etc)
  • Color
  • Focus—in/out
  • Rotate
  • Distort
  • etc…
posted by wendy at 12:46 pm  

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