Today I stayed home and made empanadas. The idea behind doing this project for 4in4 was to make something that would freeze well and be easy to take to school with me during the semester. I used Mark Bittman’s recipe for empanada dough from How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, and I improvised on the fillings: [...]
Today Kate Hartman and I made recycled paper with simple circuits embedded in it. We created a slurry by blending shredded paper and water. Then we pressed circuits we made from conductive thread and surface mount LEDs into the slurry between two screens. Here’s what one of the circuits looked like when we tested it [...]
Today I made a tube out of 22 cashmere socks. I cut the feet and top edges off and sewed the remaining sections end to end. Sadly, I’m out of stuffing, and the tube is only about 3/4 full. This pillow just didn’t have enough batting: Hopefully I’ll find some t-shirts at home so that [...]
Next week I’ll be participating in 4in4 by completing four projects in four days. Here are the projects I’ll be working on: Data Scentualization– Hacking an array of electric air fresheners to work with Arduino, based on an article from Make. I have loose plans to trigger them with some sort of information event (e.g. [...]
4in4 is underway! Steven, Rob, and I hosted a DriveBy last night to get things started. For those who couldn’t make it to the meeting: 4in4 is an event during which ITP students, resident researchers, and faculty are invited to create four projects in four days. This event is based on two previous events: 5-in-5 [...]
I need to add a layer behind the screen to diffuse the LEDs, but the glowing looks amazing in a darkened room.
This is a short summary presentation I made to accompany my final project for PComp and ICM. Please download the PowerPoint file in order to view this presentation as it is intended. Unfortunately, SlideShare does not support slide animations, and it has some problems with formatting. I will upload images and code in the next [...]
I visited Rob Faludi‘s Crafting with Data class this week to talk about data sources available through NYU Libraries or via free government web sites. There is a list of suggested sources here.