Week 2 – Miri Park – In Class Circuit & HW Illustration Circuit

In class assignment: parallel circuit with different materials!

Homework: Illustration of a passage, integrating a circuit.

I chose to illustrate a stanza of a song, titled “Lost in Space” by Hyboid. Among the beautiful word choices and imageries that the song includes, the line that stands out to me most evokes an imagery of three distinct states or stages of life, which I interpret to be childhood, adult, and elderly. The “magic man” warns that your third cycle of life is the last cycle, after which there is nothing, only death. I felt it was appropriate to illustrate the three stages as three different colors, and symbolize life with light. The circular layout also fits in very well with how a circuit completes, and allows for freedom with conductive thread on the canvas fabric of the painting.

Parallel Circuit

Jessica

Complete the (circuit) City

I chose a quote from the book “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino. The book follows a conversation between traveler Marco Polo and emperor Kublai Khan. Khan asks Marco to tells him stories about the cities in his empire. Macro describes several cities, speaking about them in terms of memory, desires, signs and scale. (Spoiler alert) In the end you realize Marco is describing just one city from different perspectives and we understand the true complexity of place and memory.

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspective deceitful, and everything conceals something else” (pg.44)

I like the idea of changing perspective, and concealing systems and tried to bring these ideas into my circuit.

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Week 02 Assignment – Xinhe

Circuit Illustration

The idea comes from the animation Wall-E. And the sentence is simply a calling from robot Wall-E: Eve?

In-class Assignment – Parallel Circuit

Week 2 – Parallel

-Xiaofeng Lin

1. Ruler with a metal chip, copper, and magnet. 2. Conductive Ink.

Birce Ozkan -Yin Yang Necklace -Week2

Abhinyana is a Buddhist monk who provides the teachings of Buddha for everyone with the purpose of helping them get rid of their suffering and achieve happiness. The text below is a page from his book ” Just a Thought”. I think it is really important to understand our negative qualities, embrace them and generate some positive outcomes. So, i decided to make a YinYang necklace to make remember those moments to the user. Whenever the user experiences some unexpected negative moments, the necklace keeps remember the user to trust life and negative things can give a birth to unexpected beautiful new experiences. Also, the wearer can light up the necklace depending on how he/she feels and use the LED on the sides of Yin&Yang as a symbol to show his/her state of mind.

The other interesting thing I realized during the research about Yin Yang is that the circle represent the interaction of two energies, called “yin” (black) and “yang” (white), which cause everything to happen. They are not completely black or white, just as things in life are not completely black or white, and they cannot exist without each other. So, a circuit is a path that electrical current flows through. So, if there is no ground, there is no electrical flow and same for vice versa. We can use “Yin Yang” as a representation to show that the electrical flow cannot exist without each other

Starting from a building parallel circuit using 2 LEDS:

After that i decided to use conductive threads to build the circuit:

I cut the materials to give the circular shape of Yin Yang and cover the circle shaped circuits with circular shaped materials:

Also, i used conductive tape to create some switches depending on which side the wearer wants to light up:

And then i hot glued the yin yang circuit with a chain:

Also, one of my friends wore the necklace and pressed the right(Yang) and the left side(Yin) to light up her emotional states:

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Assignment 2 // Illustration Exercise

Quote //

” I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.” Dr. Seuss

Concept //

Creating something completely abstract to emphasize on the notion of nonsense and experimentation that awakens the brain. It is kind of showing the brain as a closed entity that is filled with potential.

Material //

2x 9″X12″ gray sketch paper

4x LED lights (2 blue, 2 white)

3x 3V coin batteris

Conductive thread

Conductive tape

Masking tape

Glue

Needle

Procedure //

I connected the LED to the conductive thread using conductive tape.

I stitched the LED through the sketching paper

I connected the thread to coin batteries in parallel. I covered the back of the sketching paper where the batteries and threads are with another sketching paper. I then folded and glued one pair of opposite edges together.

Week 2 Project

My inspiration was from Tom’s Midnight Garden. It’s one of my favorite stories of my childhood. I picked the iconic clock as the form of my soft circuit.

I used copper tape, 5 LEDs, and a 3V button battery. When you push the middle part which is the location of the battery. It will trigger the LEDs.

Materials + Processes @UW :: Encyclopedic Reference!

This is a great reference that gives an overview of many different types of processes and materials. Label mode makes it much easier to navigate.

Week 2 – In-class Practice and Quote Path – Grace

1. In-Class Parallel Circuity – Light up Apple’s Icon

Enjoy the “Right!” moment:

2. Illustration Practice – Chocolate Package Design

A chocolate package design that only when people unwrap the package that they are able to see the rest of the famous quote, which is “you never know what you gonna get”, just like the way this line shows.