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YesYesBOT is a robot commissioned by Intel to introduce its brand new board based on Arduino: Intel® Galileo. “Galileo is a micro-controller board based on the Intel® Quark SoC X1000 Application Processor, a 32-bit Intel Pentium-class system on a chip.” (see more here)

The robot inspired on Japanese robots from the 80’s, is commanded from a phone app which communicates with the board through wi-fi signal, to make the robot move around, make sounds and give away candies. I worked on the physical construction, designing the look, 3D printing parts and using old electronics junk to give the robot a retro aspect. Also, I designed the mechanism for the dispenser inside, which works with a servo motor activated from the phone app.

The whole process had to be done within 3 weeks, to be exhibited in the Maker Faire Rome 2013, where Intel CEO Brian Krzanich first announced Galileo, demonstrating with YesYesBOT on stage, an application that can be performed using this type of micro-controller.

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Elle

This is a personal project inspired by all every day electronic devices and the speed with which they are discarded nowadays. Since I live in USA, I am surprised by how quickly multiple objects are considered garbage and you can easily find them on the streets every day. I have collected objects many times to reuse them in projects or for personal use. This is because they are generally discarded for a better, a nicer or a newer one, and not because its useful life is over.

As a graduate student, particularly electronic waste called my attention, and all those pieces that I can easily find here in contrast to Chile. I started this project trying to find a new use for these items, rescuing and transforming many of them into an object that can be used in our daily life with a new meaning, now as an ornament and not as a secondary element.

So far, I have created a collection of necklaces, but in the future I would like to explore new objects with this duality between functionality and aesthetics , recovering electronic materials pursuing to contribute a little bit taking care for the environment.

Model: Mimi Onuoha Photos: Michell Johanna Cardona and Manuela Donoso

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Elle

This is a personal project inspired by all every day electronic devices and the speed with which they are discarded nowadays. Since I live in USA, I am surprised by how quickly multiple objects are considered garbage and you can easily find them on the streets every day. I have collected objects many times to reuse them in projects or for personal use. This is because they are generally discarded for a better, a nicer or a newer one, and not because its useful life is over.

As a graduate student, particularly electronic waste called my attention, and all those pieces that I can easily find here in contrast to Chile. I started this project trying to find a new use for these items, rescuing and transforming many of them into an object that can be used in our daily life with a new meaning, now as an ornament and not as a secondary element.

So far, I have created a collection of necklaces, but in the future I would like to explore new objects with this duality between functionality and aesthetics , recovering electronic materials pursuing to contribute a little bit taking care for the environment.

Model: Mimi Onuoha Photos: Michell Johanna Cardona and Manuela Donoso

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Elle

This is a personal project inspired by all every day electronic devices and the speed with which they are discarded nowadays. Since I live in USA, I am surprised by how quickly multiple objects are considered garbage and you can easily find them on the streets every day. I have collected objects many times to reuse them in projects or for personal use. This is because they are generally discarded for a better, a nicer or a newer one, and not because its useful life is over.

As a graduate student, particularly electronic waste called my attention, and all those pieces that I can easily find here in contrast to Chile. I started this project trying to find a new use for these items, rescuing and transforming many of them into an object that can be used in our daily life with a new meaning, now as an ornament and not as a secondary element.

So far, I have created a collection of necklaces, but in the future I would like to explore new objects with this duality between functionality and aesthetics , recovering electronic materials pursuing to contribute a little bit taking care for the environment.

Model: Mimi Onuoha Photos: Michell Johanna Cardona and Manuela Donoso

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This project was commissioned to YesYesNo for a Star Wars theme wedding. The robot needed to be real scale and remote controlled to move it the way it looks in the movie. I was in charge of all related with the physical design, including mechanisms and considering the inclusion of electronic parts such as sensors, speakers, lights, batteries and micro-controllers. The dimensions about 47″ high and 20″ diameter were taken from the official web of R2D2 builders Astromech, as well as all the drawings with which I was able to design 3D models of many parts using Rhinoceros , and then print them using the 3D printer Makerbot . The rest of the materials were mainly recycled from scratch, some parts were made ​​by hand and others using a laser cutter. The robot moves with a motor in each one of the rear feet, which are controlled with a smartphone app. Communication is possible through wifi using a Raspberry Pi . The phone application allows you to control the movements and also produce sounds. The LED’s and motors that control the movement of the eye of the robot are controlled by an Arduino. All the 3D files are free to download on Thingiverse web site.

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The Talking Shoe

This is a project of Google, YesYesNo and the ad agency 72andSunny. It was exhibited at the interactive festival SXSW 2013 in Austin, Texas, and also at the Cannes Lions Festival 2013 in France. The Talking Shoe is an interactive shoe designed to motivate its owner to move. It was developed as an experiment on how wearable technology could interact with the people and with the Internet. The shoe includes an accelerometer, gyroscope, three pressure sensors and Bluetooth capability to connect to a smartphone through an app. The electronics allow to measure movement in X, Y and Z axis, and the speaker tells the user pre-recorded phrases according to the activity detected.

My work in this project was to participate in everything related to the shoe design in the process of hacking it, along with developers of the electronic PCB’s and the phone application. In this process I was in charge of designing how to integrate electronics into the shoe, to protect them from damage due to movement and possible shocks. I designed and 3D modeled pieces that were 3D printed after. These pieces were mainly cases to cover and protect the electronics, and to amplify the sound, in the case of the speaker.

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Sigradi 2013

I designed the graphic identity for Sigradi 2013: Congress of Iberoamerican Society of Digital Design, that will take place in Valparaíso Chile. This work consisted in the design of a logo and animations. The logo was coded in Processing and the animations were made in After Effects.

See more information about Sigradi 2013 here:

http://sigradi2013.org/

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connecting light

” Connecting Light explores opposing ideas of borders and connection through landscape art installation, open-source electronic hardware and software, and networks. Hundreds of six-foot-in-diameter balloons, equipped with high-powered LEDs driven by radio devices, illuminate Britain’s greatest Roman monument: the Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site. Arrays of balloons are distributed among several Hadrian’s Wall viewing locations, creating a land-scale communications network transmitting audience-generated messages—represented as pulses of brightly colored light. Messages can be viewed on-site from Friday, August 31 through Saturday, September 1; remote audiences can personalize, transmit, and see messages via this Web site. “ via http://connectinglight.info

I worked as a part of the team of the collective YESYESNO, that included Zach Lieberman and Molmol Kuo. In this project I developed and calculated the physical part of the project, designing and fabricating 3D printed pieces, and making drawings, renders and instructions in order to explain the volunteers how to assemble around of 400 balloons used in this interactive installation.

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transformable architecture

  This project is the continuation of my final project in undergrad named FOLDFACE, and also is an application of what I learned in my master program ITP. In my opinion, using technology buildings should be organisms capable to transform and move as a result of the interaction with people and their practices that are constantly changing.

According to that, this study is a research to design and develop a modular, structural and active piece that can generate an interactive surface, something like a “kinetic brick”. Transformable architecture is a series of experiments exploring math, geometry, mechanisms and ways to generate a dynamic architecture.

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blah blah blobby

This is a series of experiments programming in Processing and making interactive graphic than potentially can be combined with Arduino to create some interactive physical project, but for now the interactivity is through the computer.

Some of this are experiments made in the class of Daniel Shiffman named Nature of Code, where the focus is on develop programming strategies and techniques simulating natural phenomenon using mathematics and physics concepts. The user can play moving the characters that also make expressions and sounds when they are falling down.

Tags: arduino, itp, nature of code, physical computing, processing, shiffman

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sonification

This project is a visualization of a data through music and through a performance of a puppet. I used the puppet that moves following commands from the computer, using arduino as a communicator between both. So as an irony I chose data about experiments with animals. The visualization shows the purposes to experiment with animals in UK in 2009, and also the kind of animals and the amount of them in every purpose, according to the data that i got in http://www.guardian.co.uk/.

The size of every circle indicates the amount of animals used in a purpose (tracks) and then, the fraction of colors indicate the kind of animals and the number of that kind of animals compared to the total amount used for a specific purpose (music notes).

The whole composition is a kind of album with songs, where every song is a human purpose to experiment with animals. In every track, the kind of animal is a specific prerecorded sound. The amount of animals compared with the total is related with the amount of loops of every sound and the kind of beat that the song has.

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voronoi bench

This project was made for the Digital Fabrication class, using a sketch of Processing to get a Voronoi drawing. I took a part of this polygons and then y gave the lines a thickness, rounding the edges to maintain the organic shape of the sketch. The material available it was plywood(2 sheets 3/4) and the machine to cut the material it was a 3 axis CNC. So i tried to maximize the material to give the chair a volume using parallels layers and taking away material following the shape of the big piece.

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Keyboard cat

This project is an exploration within interactivity, mechanics and animatronics, combining the technology and a handmade object.

Using Processing and Arduino the keyboard of the computer move two independent motors, one of them controls the horizontal movement of the hands, and the other one controls the vertical movement, also every key emits a pre-recorded sound. Therefore, the keyboards in the computer represent a keyboard in the piano, and every time the user press the keyboards on the computer, he/she is also making the cat plays the piano.

The mechanism is made with two servo motors and some pieces of legos.

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malleable screen

I was working in a project which creates a relationship between material and image. The project consists in a screen made of a material capable to be distorted, and at the same time to produce a distortion on the image that the user see on it.

According to this I made a screen using lycra, where I projected in real time the image of the people who is in front of it. To generate the distortion I started to programming based on a Processing code of an ITP alumni that using the position of the mouse generates a distortion on the image captured by the web cam of the laptop. The first prototype that I made was using foam and pressure sensors, then I changed the values of X and Y of the mouse by the values of the sensors to produce the change on the image.

The next step was starting to use the Kinect as a sensor to map the depth and the position where the material were distorted, also I used a webcam to capture the face of the user and project from behind over the screen at the same time that the kinect is mapping the distortion, using as a reference the plane of the screen when is not distorted.

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indoor tree

Seasonal toys.

Indoor Tree is a toy built by the sum of a unique piece which can be assembled and connected in multiple ways to generate an irregular 3D surface on the floor. Kids can play creating new shapes and spaces, and at the same time they learn about balance and how structures work.

This toy was made as a final project in the Toy Design class of the NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. The assignment consisted to create a toy based in a season, and I worked in the Summer group, and after many observations I thought this is the best season to play outside, so I decided not to make a toy to be used in the summer but a toy capable to bring the summer to another season.

I was observing different activities that kids do in the Summer, and I fixed my attention on climbing, specially climbing on trees, because I realized that kids tend to climb any diagonal or vertical surface, and trees are an excellent support for that. That’s why I had the idea to design some toy which allow kids to play in their rooms creating their own tree and playing in between branches and voids formed by it.

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Semirario del Territorio / Talca University Chile http://www.delterritorioaldetalle.cl/

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Mr. Bugson

In this project I worked with a Michaella Cardona who is also an architect, and we wanted to work in something that we would usually not make, so in this occasion we tried to make a kind of bug who was able to walk.

After a lot of attempts we based on Reuben Heyday Margolin mechanism to create Mr. Bugson who walks powered by two motors and a several of acrylics gears. After assembled all of his parts we realized that Mr. Bugson walks backwards, but we didn’t try to fix it, because we think this is his ability and makes different of others mechanic bugs.

“Michael Bug­son” is made of two DC geared motors, orange mat board, 3/16″ ply­wood, 3/16″ acrylic, metal wash­ers, hot glue, bind­ing post, elec­tri­cal wire and a cell­phone bat­tery.