The idle scene is a photo of the house with music playing in the background. The three animations:When the table is touched, a plate of cookies is quickly consumed. When the fireplace is touched, logs and flames appear inside it. When the piano is touched, a few chords are played. Question: I wanted to incorporate…

For my controller portion, I decided to incorporate my lizard character “Blep” as the controller for my final project. I had completely scrapped my initial interactive touch project and rewrote it. My project now includes a continuation of the story of “Blep”, as previously mentioned, and “Ece”. Ece is a faceless astronaut that is friends…

I’ve finished the physical component of my interactive object. The object is a cloth creation, using an old cardboard box as a canvas. The visual is a bit abstract and made of many pieces. This project has been a bit experimental in terms of style, as I allowed the piece have a loose, sketchy, look,…

As of now, the physical component of my project is complete! I now have to connect the Makey Makey to my laptop and start animating. My project is based around a dandelion, so I decided to create a model of a dandelion out of felt! The base of my object is made out of wood…

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…

So far, my project is functioning exactly as I intended- yay! I have attached a bunch of photos of what the moth-jar looks like below. I also caught a single moth last night but let him go just so that I could test and make sure the moths will repsond to light and trigger the…

I used the input sketch phase to do a sort of proof-of-concept for my idea. It’s just a prototype and I’m hoping to remake it to look cleaner, but for now it shows the general idea. I started making a more polished board that has a cleaner way to hold the MaKey MaKey, but I’m…

For my interactive touch project’s input, I decided to make five buttons out of some model magic that I picked up at the local art store. I wanted to continue my project’s minimalistic feel, and make it clear which buttons activate which animation, and I think I was able to do that successfully. Also, I…

This is the physical component of my interactive touch project. It’s the input device for a special kind of puzzle which will be shown on screen. The clips which are unattached or attached to the cardboard are mobile, but the clips attached to the Makey Makey must stay in place. The function of these clips…

So here are some images of my input device, which is a canvas I will eventually paint a background color. The input devices will be on the front of the canvas to be interacted with while the wiring itself will be hidden behind. I’ve included some short videos of me messing around with different aspects…

I have redesigned the interface for my Interactive Touch Project. To make the object more recognizable as being related to music, I tried my best to make the input device look similar to a keyboard. Each of the inputs are toggle switches that the user presses once to turn on, or off. As labeled, each…

If there’s one thing that I learned the value of this week, it’s physical constraints. I anticipated this issue when beginning the class, but now when I’m stripped of the convenience of my digital workspace, I get to truly experience an entirely new realm of improvisation and iteration. Initially, my concept had taken the form…

So I’ve decided to change my original idea and form pretty significantly. For my input instrument, I instead modeled it as a sort of Harp/ Lyre form. The instrument has 12 conductive strings each mapping to one of twelve possible keyboard inputs in the Makey Makey. Each of the twelve inputs will map to a…

Here is my input sketch! The materials are all held in aluminum foil cups so that they are conductive from all around, and the wires are all underneath. The cups have cotton balls, leaves, fabric, and water (which is kind of hard to see in the photo). To make the cotton balls and fabric conductive,…

I am thinking about masking the whole project with newspaper, in order to get rid of the glue and cardboard. However, I also like the way it looks because of how it looks more “industrial.” My question is should I use newspaper to cover some areas of the project?