At the end of last class I did want to add more effects, but through feedback and the confusion that people had with the physical reactions. I decided to improve the signifiers and hide the wires into a larger better box. I really liked how this turned out and I am ready to bring this…
Author: Oliver
Final Project – Pet Connector
In this final connection project, I wanted to show the connection between a person and their animal by giving both the animal and person a controller to play with. This project uses a Makey Makey, an arduino, and the camera. I wanted to make an experience that is mysterious but fun to interact with. I…
Final Demo Sketch Alpha – The pet connector
For this project when I heard about connection I immediately thought of the unconditional love connection you can develop with a pet. The type that you can have the worst day ever, but coming back home and seeing your animal super excited to see you just makes your day better. For this project I wanted…
Arduino Sketch – Everything comes Together TV Edition
Since everything is wrapping up I wanted to practice bringing everything I had learned together into a fun Arduino experiment. I wanted to simulate an old TV static with bad service, such as a watching TV in the middle of nowhere vibe, but with a modern feel and smoother polish. This was fun finding the…
Computer Vision/Audio Sketch – The Party Pixel Clapper
For this mini project I was inspired by Not Tonight and Party Hard as well as modern retro games. I used the camera and mic to create a pixel tracker and a sound checker to switch the music. I used no copyright sounds because last time I got copyright claims for my meme remix which…
Meme Remix Sketch – DK Show
The DK Show was one of the very first Motion Capture TV show and it is weirdly written and forced songs are constantly popping up per episode. I decided to emphasis and exaggerate the random song transition by using random with counters. This show gives many mixed emotions which I tried to use a random…
Interactive Manic — Growth Mindset
Manic always dreamed of becoming a manikin for a spy organization, but through self doubts and feelings of never accomplishing their dream, Manic Caine joined the family business of being a crash test dummy. One bad rocket ship accident knocked their brain out, showing there was a fixated rock inside, now their brain is growing…
Interactive Input Sketch – Growth Mindset
Papier Mache took a day to dry but is finally ready for painting and integrating the makey makey. The top is the head opening where I am going to place objects in and remove the frame which was holding the mache. Somethings that have changed is I am focusing on how to acquire a growth…
Growth Mindset – Interactive Touch Concept Sketch
For the project I want to dive deep into a topic that I have seen was not widely accepted to me personally and it is growth mindset. Growth mindset is often compared to what is known as a fixated mindset, fixated mindset means that you believe that when you are not good at a task…
MakeyMakey Audio Sketch
This project I messed around with Audacity to edit creative sound effects I made around my house. I took to making a granite drawing and making the noise of what each hand I thought would have sounded like. The device is hooked up through a MakeyMakey through MAX and uses all of the six alligator…
Oliver Data Art – Importance of food waste.
From our critics I was given a lot of great feedback into how I could improve my work. One thing that changed was the metal lighting of the tubes and cage in order to give it a more solid robotic feel (I like robots). The people now are not represented as flies moving around but…
Data Sketch – Food Waste (not) For Hunger
Growing in many different environments and being in a farm and city situations I noticed not until recently that by examining farm behavior I noticed food that did not make the market was thrown away and food in the market were thrown away even though it was safe to eat. Going back to the city…
Oliver Rayner
Hey peoplekind! I was born in London but grew up most of my life in Providence, Rhode Island. I currently am living in Worcester full time, but I do a lot of moving in my spare time. In my current life I have been doing a lot of front-end development which for people who are…