The Morse Code Keyboard, my thesis project, and the object of my attention for the past six months is finally complete. This device uses a touch-based slider interface to communicate with a computer as a standard USB keyboard. It works like a regular keyboard, except instead of typing letters you make gestures that get decoded [...]
Umweltforshöw: The 2006 ACE Graduation Show
The ACE second year graduating class (which includes me) is putting on its thesis show next week. If you will be in Southern California next week (or even if you won’t) and enjoy new media art, you should come and see what two years of blood, sweat, and tears can [...]
Bill Wasik at MOB #2 (June 17, 2003), courtesy satanslaundromat.com
This week’s edition of the excellent NPR program, On the Media, features an interview with the original creator of the Mob Project. The enigmatic creator of the flash mob phenomenon and Harper’s senior editor, Bill “Bill” Wasik, gives a good overview of the flash mob phenomenon [...]
So it took me a while to figure out what the Pixel Factory, designed by Kenichi Okada, actually did. Something about the documentation told me that it had to be an amazing idea, and it is.
It’s basically a 7×7 pixel, completely mechanical, moving image player. It seems to be made out of cardboard, plexi, and [...]
I completed an initial iteration of PushPad for the first-year ACE show: Eccentric Orbits. The project was a success in that it inflated, but that’s about it. I learned a lot of things from this project, mostly that sewing is hard, and that interaction design of something whose physical form I wouldn’t understand until it [...]