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• 05.08.07
  Social Bomb
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  www.socialbomb.net Social Bomb is a game about social circles and quantified reputation scores. The current version is designed to accommodate 15-20 players. Each player is awarded points for being near players with higher reputations, and penalized for being near players with lower reputations. Bonuses and penalties are applied according to overall social promiscuity and status. The player with the worst reputation score is the 'Social Bomb.' Their score will have the most negative impact on a social circle. Social Bomb is designed to be played in real-world social environments. Players are given small ...

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• 04.10.07
  Concrete Crickets
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  Graffiti is one of the most powerful and most personal displays in the urban experience, and can be used to make statements, tag territory, spread messages -- urban markup language in practice. However, the output is nearly always visual in nature, making this experience one-dimensional. Furthermore, rarely does the work have a brain of its own, and is usually incapable of reacting to anybody observing it. Concrete Crickets was created to address this deficit, creating small devices that will be aware of passers-by as well as other units of their kind. Each unit consists of a sound generator, amp, speaker and ...

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• 03.19.07
  Door Secure
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  This was something I'd worked on with my fellow ITPer Matt Burton, where we had spent three weeks working on this idea we'd had for harvesting the kinetic energy used to slide the doors on the ITP floor back and forth. As nearly all the classrooms on our floor have big glass sliding doors, we figured we'd be getting a good amount of energy from the effort and not be interfering with people's daily lives much if at all. We were half-right, overall: we managed to make a prototype that likely would have no noticible effect on ...

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• 02.03.07
  Oven Prototype
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  This started as an assignment for Designing for Constraints, where we were tasked to examine a digital appliance that we deal with, analyze its usability, and suggest improvements. The example we looked at in class was an alarm clock, but as I don't have one (I'm the cellphone alarm type), I started looking around at other things in my apartment that confound me on a daily basis. The one that stuck out, and for very similar reasons to the clock, was my oven. This sounds like a stupid idea: it's an oven, it just heats stuff, right? No. This is an oven with a digital interface (complete with clock) and it annoys the hell out of me. I can never figure out how to get it to time and cook and such. I work with technology all day. I'm getting a master's degree in technology. I should not be bested by a cooking appliance, but yet, here I am writing about my struggles with it. This is the beast in question:

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• 12.24.06
  ArborOptics
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  Having spent the entire second half of the semester focused on one single project for Physical Computing, it's very difficult to take a few steps back and try to recap the entire experience. However, as that's pretty much the whole point of presenting to an audience, let's give this a try, shall we? I started this with a very simple idea -- I wanted to bring a piece of the outdoors to the indoor space. The room in my apartment with all my pcomp and studio gear has no windows, and if one were to spend ...

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