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I’m inspired by Scratch, a visual programming environment for kids that exists entirely in the browser. There is a community with over 3million projects, from animated stories and games to music, almost all produced by kids! You can “look inside” to see the code, and remix any project under a Creative Commons license. >> http://scratch.mit.edu/ Speaking […]
It has been a fun week of labs. At one point, I thought I fried my Arduino because it stopped responding, but a reset seemed to do the trick. I decided I like to put LED indicator lights on my breadboard. For example, I’ve been putting an LED after the Mouse On switch. First it’ll […]
This week, I wanted to experiment with a draw() animation that does something different depending on where your mouse is on the screen. I also just wanted to play with push/pop matrix, combining loops, mapping, variables, and sin/cos. Here’s the result! browser version | source code itp.jasonsigal.cc/icm/week2a/ The interface is not intuitive, but here’s how […]
A framed print of this iconic neon poster caught my eye earlier this year. For this assignment (to analyze a piece based on the Principles of Design), I did some research and found that it was printed in 1967 by the legendary Globe Poster in Baltimore, screenprinted on letterpress with Day-Glo ink (more info here). […]
Mitchel Resnick is the director of MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten Group. In a paper called All I Really Need to Know (About Creative Thinking) I Learned (By Studying How Children Learn) in Kindergarten, Resnick defines “Kindergarten-style learning” and explains why he believes it is essential for people of all ages—it even guides his own approach to designing educational […]
In his 1945 article “As We May Think,” Vannevar Bush basically envisioned the personal desktop computer, the internet, search engines, search history, scanners, and a whole lot more. It’s the end of WWII and he declares it’s time for the world’s scientists to stop focusing on making nukes, and to start thinking about ways to […]
I watched Microsoft’s 2011 Productivity Future Vision before reading Bret Victor’s “Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design.” The “Vision” video struck me because of the limited options these imagined systems seem to provide their users. They didn’t seem to allow for much in the way of individual expression because they relied so much on […]
For this week’s project, we were asked to make some static image like a self portrait using some basic shapes in Processing. I was inspired by the idea that Processing makes it possible to do things that aren’t possible in programs like Photoshop. I had been trying to use Photoshop to make lines that increase […]
Every year, a greater percentage of the world’s population moves to urban areas (source), where traffic is becoming a huge problem. Inspired by the situation in her hometown of Bangkok, Kate thought wouldn’t it be great to fly above the smog? So for our ‘Fantasy Device’ in today’s first session of Physical Computing, where we […]