1) Behavior story. Pick a behavior or action (breathing, talking, etc) and create a circuit that exhibits this. Use the switch/sensor and circuit building techniques we have been discussing in class. It should not be on a breadboard. //Play with the delay() – think back to what we did in class.
2) Tell a story about your object. What is it feeling? How might you display this through code?
3) Bring your sensors from the previous week.
Identification:
Favorite Tool:
Currently, My favorite tool is glue gun. It glues everything and lasts! It can easily add on different materials to my project, which gives my work different textures. It glues cloth, button, wool, feather, wood, plastic, stone, etc. Basically anything. There’s no smell and it is see-through! The only downside is that it can only be used indoor.
Learn a New Craft:
I’m a visual person. I learn better while someone is demonstrating how to do a craft instead of reading about how to do it. I think that is why I like crafts so much, because seeing how things are done with my eyes reflects in my brain better. My brain works faster with graphics. Just like the Economist E. F. Schumancher said “The human being … enjoys nothing more than to be creatively, usefully, productively engaged with both his hands and his brains.”. My hands and brains coordinate better with visual instructions.
I like making stuff. Using my hand to create things is very fulfilling. And each time I look at the things I’ve made, the memory flashes back. I feel happy and content to look at what I’ve accomplished.
Max
I’m a designer and engineer. I have an engineering degree in industrial design. I’m also a storyteller. I tell a story in every project. I think the story telling methods are very important in design projects. And I’m always finding new possibilities to tell stories.
My favorite tool is paper. The fastest way to organize my thoughts and ideas is writing them down. I also love doing simple sketches and folding paper, not only for the design process but also for fun.
I really love the way that several people get together and learn something new. It’s a lot of fun to figure things out together. I may never be willing to learn weaving by myself. But in my group I enjoyed the learning process. The demonstrations and hands-on activities in class are really helpful to give a quick taste of each craft. By trying a little bit of everything, I quickly found out I don’t quite like knitting and love needle felting. Showing others what I have learned was very satisfying. The only frustration is that after a few days I started to forget the skill. I believe it takes more repeats to get really familiar with it. Next time I would probably finish a small piece beforehand and show the final result before the hands-on activity.
Identify myself
Maker – My background is Architecture and because I had to do a lot of 3D models so that it made me like to make physical stuff. As well as I love to build thing by myself.
Designer – I think because I stay in the design field for many years then I can express myself as designer.
Learner – I am open and ready to learn a new thing also there are many new things happen everyday waiting for us to learn.
Hacker – Because something we cannot create something new and we have to look to other people works to make us understand the process. And it is a short cut to build something.
Craftsperson – I love to get my hand feel the texture and build a physical thing. Mostly I love to do wood, paper ad others except yarn. When I was young, we have a class that every student needed to do knitting but at the time I cannot do it, so my mom did that for me. From that moment I feel I am quite not get into yarn process.
My favorite tool is CUTTER because when I was studying undergrad, I had to do many architecture models and we don’t have a laser cut to do the pieces for us. So cutter is the most important tool for me. It is easy to use especially this brand, fit for my hand and very sharp. Also I still using it for almost 7 years.
Learning craft in class is very fun for me and because people in class teaching to each other, it make me into the process and not boring. If there is no this teaching process, I might not try to learn by myself for all of the crafts. The thing that frustrating me is we should have more time to learn about the process. It was a starting point to me to know many knows of handcraft that I will not going to learn by myself. I got the idea about each craft which is very good to me. And one more important thing that I gain from those process is if I have to do a serious project about those crafts, I will find someone to help me with that.
How do I classify myself?
When I first started to answer this question, I identified with nearly every role on this list. However, when I thought about it a bit more, I realized that I probably need to be more focused in my work. After some careful consideration, I chose to identify most with maker, learner, and coder.
I consider myself a maker because I have always enjoyed working with my hands. Sometimes the term “maker” can be analogous to the word “artist”, while other times it’s more akin to the term “designer.” It can even encompass the word “craftsperson.” So, for me, “maker” is the most appropriate term. It all depends on my intention and focus. I’m also not sure that distinctions between “artist,” “designer,” and “craftsperson” really matter and believe that these probably should be more fluid.
When I was a kid and would point out something I wanted my mom to get me at the store, she would just say “We can make it!” and then we’d wander over to the local craft or fabric store and do just that. When I was young, I explored knitting, sewing, metalworking, woodworking, weaving, pottery, wood-working, etc…. I think that making has always allowed me to be imaginative and creative.
I also think of myself as a learner. Making and learning go hand-in-hand. As a maker, I have constantly needed to learn new techniques to get the results I wanted. Making is all about solving problems, and the best way to do this is to learn.
I am so thankful to DT for helping me to really move forward with my understanding of code to really become a coder (or maybe just web developer/designer?). I discovered HTML during take-your-daughter-to-work day in 1998. I learned the basics of front-end web development and then spent hours and hours in front of the computer to build and maintain a number of pages on free websites like gURLpages.com and geocities.com. I remember learning tips from friends I made online and teaching my own html tricks to others as well.
Sharpie and Post-its
I’d probably say my favorite real-world tool is a sharpie and post-its. I think that conceptual stages of any project are the hardest for me. Sharpies allow me to get my thoughts down quickly. The ease at which I’m able to write with a sharpie allows me to quickly explore and discard ideas that may not work. Post-its allow me to move and reorganize my ideas so they work in a logical flow.
Teaching/Learning a New Craft Session
I really enjoyed learning and teaching needle felting last week. It’s a craft that I didn’t know much about, but see a lot of potential for. I am the type of person that really likes making small, inanimate little beings, however, in the context of physical computing, I see a lot of potential uses for it. I found the process to be somewhat soothing, even though it often resulted in pricking my fingers. I was surprised by the amount of control I seemed to have over the shape and overall product.
I also enjoyed thinking about the many other possibilities of crafts that I could incorporate into my own work, like crochet, weaving and woodworking. This activity also made me think about other, related processes that may not have been taught in class, but could potentially be useful things to look into, like wet felting and metalworking. The biggest takeaway for me was the ease at which we learned something new and that’s an important thing for me to remember!
I am a designer who loves sketching, drawing, making things, and conceptual thinking. My background is in graphic design, but I’ve always wanted to be an artist, and called myself an artist until I was an undergraduate. I know there is no strict boundary between art and design, but I think I became a designer because I had more opportunities to do practical designs in the aspect of business rather than expressing my feelings, emotions, and philosophy in design. I think I found that I enjoy doing practical designs to solve some problems or to create useful services, packaging, and products for people’s better life. I like helping people with creative designs. I believe that creative designs make people happy and help make their life better. That is why I love design and I identify as a designer.
My favorite tool is scissors because I can create anything that I didn’t expect, and it gives me a feeling of freedom and pressure at the same time. The reason I feel this way is because scissors are a very simple tool but it is never a easy tool because it is dangerous sometimes. The most interesting thing about scissors is that if I cut something with scissors, then I cannot go back to the beginning. It is a simple tool but should be used carefully. It makes me think twice about everything before doing something.
I really enjoyed learning a different craft last week. I think sharing skills by demonstrating and active hands-on was a very effective way to learn various new crafts quickly. I never knew there was a variety of fun hands-on crafting if I were not taking this class. It was fun and I also enjoyed taking orientation for wood working with my group. I wanted to try wood working before but I haven’t had the chance to do this because I mostly work with my laptop, even though I love making things, but thanks to this class I made it. Teaching what I’ve experienced was satisfying, but It was a shame that I couldn’t push more to do this for others because wood working was really fun. I liked active hands-on craft processes but the only thing I was frustrated about was that I couldn’t follow crocheting… I need more time practicing to get familiar with it.
I always find it hard when someone asks me to classify myself in a career field. I constantly see myself in several and often all these overlap each other. So I try to not pay too much attention on what category I am or to judge my work but always keep doing and let the viewer classify the work I do however they want to. I believe classifying the work is easier and more specific, instead of classifying the person. The person is so complex that whatever he or she is, there is always more to it. At this moment I would say that I identify myself as an artist. An artist who is a designer, maker, storyteller, researcher, who is learning how to code and to become an educator. I choose an artist as my main category due that to my past experience classifying myself like this has given me the more freedom to express myself and to let my work be whatever it wants to be.
My favorite tool at the moment is my burgundy mechanical pencil. I enjoy so much how precise and graceful it is. It gives me the sense that all my thoughts can come out easier through this pencil. Also, its strong point helps me open, bend and manipulate different materials whenever I don’t have any other tools!
Sometimes I am very impatient and whenever this is the case, learning a craft becomes very stressful. It doesn’t matter if I’m by myself or with other people. Somehow I get the idea that I “should” be able to learn a craft very easily and therefore when I’m not I do not enjoy the process. The times that I have been able to slow myself down and notice the details of the craft and my hands working with it, are the times that I’m not even paying attention about the final look of the product but at the process of it and it is when I enjoy my time and I learn so much more than I expected about the craft and about my abilities. I think teaching a craft to someone else takes time, patient, the ability to listen and understand the other person. It is very much like having a clear open communication with another person and it is not always easy. In order to teach a craft one does not have to assume anything about the person but come at it with an intent to pass information and enjoy the time together.