Squishy Circuits Before we get started, I just wanted to thank everyone for all the kind comments on my blog posts! I hope you had a nice last day of classes. <3 I had a few trial and error runs with my play-dough recipe. The first batch of conductive dough worked PERFECTLY. When it came […]
Maker Day Accessories
What moments stand out? When did a child surprise you, by doing something unexpected? I was really surprised when one child made a flashlight with the led and some red foam. I have no clue how he did it but I was really impressed. It just goes to show that our projects allowed kids to […]
Laser Cut Project
This project was more constrained than some of our other projects. You had a template to work with that determined the overall structure, you had to show 4 different sides of something/ using line art/illustrator and you had to incorporate programmed leds. How did these constraints help or hurt your creative process? To me, I […]
Darlene Farris La-Bar Extra Credit Talk
Here are some notes from the talk: La-Bar created a honey bee bag sculpture Water is a big factor in her work, she thinks of water as ever flowing and how it has no boundaries She got her inspiration for her work from Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka who created life like glass figures, La-Bar decided […]
Arduino Blog Post
For your Arduino blog post, address how this project is simillar/different from the circuit card project, particularly in regard to you sense of intrinisic motivation/ tolerance for overcoming difficulties. For the circuit card project, I definitely had motivation because I wanted to create something special for my mom. The arduino project was much harder, but I also wanted […]
Circuit Card
Focus Question: How can simple circuits add meaning to an image? I started with an image of me and my mother, and personalized it with a kitchen theme since we bond over cooking together. By adding the circuits, I was able to illuminate the project and further push the idea of a stovetop to symbolize the […]
Moving Pictures
Focus Question: How did the iterative design thinking process come into play in this activity? Ask: Sarah, Allison, Ashley and I all asked how we could make pictures move. Since there weren’t any models to go off of there was no way of seeing what people had done in the past. Our limitations were our […]
Drawing Bots
Focus Question: How did the iterative design thinking process come into play in this activity? Tell a story about your experience using a combination of words and images. Ask: Me and Kelsey asked how we could design a bot that would work properly. We had the limitations of the supplies in the room, and whatever […]
Marble Run Project
Marble Run Focus questions: 1) Compare/contrast marble run and glitch art I think the marble run required a more logistical approach to thinking and creating than the glitch art. You had to construct something sturdy and try to fill the requirements, but with the other art project it was your own experiment; there were no […]
Electric Origami Project
Electric Origami Focus question: How did your process reflect (or not) design thinking? Yes it did, First I asked myself how I would create origami that could support an LED light. My limits were trying not to tear the paper and dealing with its delicate structure. I then went online and looked at origami for […]