For our final project, we (Dave and Slater) decided to make a time machine that takes you to what we believe the future will be like. Robots have been taking over people’s jobs, and some neural networks like GPT-3 can write text extremely convincingly while others perform accurate image recognition and voice synthesis. In the…
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Final Project Concept Sketch – THE FUTURE IS BAD
For our final project, we are planning to build a time machine that takes you into a bad time in the future, where robots have taken over the world. In the wasteland that follows climate change, only mechanical beings can survive. You enter the time machine, and dial in the desired year: 2199. You then…
Audio Input Sketch
For my audio input sketch, I chose to make a visualizer that takes the audio input and uses it to distort a video or image, which is then overlaid on top of another video or image. The distortion effect is created by a force applied on a field of particles, each colored and treated as…
Meme Remix Sketch – Crab Rave
For my meme remix sketch, I decided to remix Crab Rave. I made a control board using an Arduino and a potentiometer, so I could control the playback speed physically. I also chose a bunch of short sections to loop, each selected by pressing buttons on my keyboard.
Interactive Touch Project – Mindset Timeline (Update)
For my Interactive Touch Project, I chose to make scenes representing my mindset before and during the pandemic. Specifically, I chose a pre-Covid mindset of getting to hang out with friends, play board games, and basically be normal. Then, I made a scene from the start of the pandemic: before we knew how it spread…
Interactive Touch Input Sketch – Mindset Timeline
For the input component of my Interactive Touch project, I chose to make an analog timeline that you can slide your finger along. I used a force applied on the particles from my data project to visualize the input from the slider. To make it, I utilized an Arduino reading a voltage drop across the…
Interactive Touch Concept Sketch – Craving Social Interaction
For my interactive touch project, I am planning to represent one of the ways social interaction has changed since Covid. Before the pandemic, people would hang out in small or large groups, close together. I’m planning on having a scene with a group of people playing a board game sitting close together. Then, when the…
Makey Makey Audio Player Sketch – Hello, Gordon
For my audio player sketch, I chose to use voice lines from a great Youtube series my roommates and I have been watching, “Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware”. In order to sense the oven door, I used some tinfoil at the bottom that gets crushed to push the button when you open the…
Data Art – Air Quality Inequality
For my project, I wanted to illustrate the difference in air quality around the world, and how it can be harmful to those breathing it. I used foreboding clouds with spikes, inspired by asbestos, to represent the lasting damage that pollutants in the air can cause. Additionally, I used particles to represent PM2.5 and PM10…
Data Sketch – Air Quality Inequality
By Slater Campbell For my data sketch, I chose to draw attention to air quality inequality, and how many people living in big cities do not have access to clean or healthy air to breathe. I chose this topic because I am chronically allergic to airborne things and have been experimenting with air quality sensors…
Slater Campbell | Introduction
Hi! My name is Slater, and I’m a sophomore ECE major from Lincoln, Massachusetts. I really like designing electronics that are both aesthetically pleasing and interactive, which to me is art. I like them to be functional and interesting to use. I’m inspired by beautiful, often retro designs that are seen and interacted with on…