Creative Switch: Bvolta

Creative Switch: Flash Bang In this creative switch project, 30 green LEDs are activated when the cylindrical object is lowered onto a contact plate. The aesthetics of the piece are influenced by the film Blade Runner and the works of Matthew Barney in Drawing Restraint. The labor intensive act of raising and lowering the cylindrical weighted pipe produces…

Creative Switch: Gloves

This project demonstrates what I have done for the Creative Switch.  For this project, I used gloves to do high fives to make the LEDs light up.  The process of getting everything done was difficult, but the end result was very rewarding.  These are the wires I used for this project: And these are the…

Documentary, Purse.

For my wearable project, it did not come out as successful as I thought. I tried to make the piece work but I ran out of time and frustration got the best of me. The code is used for this project does work and the idea of this project is to make the purse light…

Jesse Schell Blog

I think that the “Living Skins” of buildings are both plausible and implausible for the future. They are plausible because they obviously already have made an appearance in society as the article showed in its examples. It is an interesting way to engage the public and make typical, commercial spaces more interesting and interactive. However,…

Final Coffee Cup

Paulina Zlahoda      My final project for this work turned out to to semi-successful. I had tried my best to improve on my first assignment, which turned out to be a good idea. In my first project for this class, I wanted to make a coffee cup based on my habit of twisting the…

Shining Legging

  This is my final porject which is a garment with LED strip that responses to the sound. It is kind of similiar to my last project. The differences between these two are the way they respone to the sound, the LED lights, and the circuit. My last project response to the sound with…