I used SMA to create a linear motion between 2 cut-out paper on a piece of cardboard (These illustrations aren’t mine! They are from freepik).

I had trouble increasing the wire’s movement but then I found out my battery was dying. With a new battery, the different levels of movement when I changed the number in analogWrite were pretty drastic. The video below features 3 different analogwrite:

Process:

Cut out the boy and the girl.

Cut out an area of the cardboard so that the figures can move toward each other. I later decided to lock the boy in one place so that only the girl moves.

And here’s the (not so pretty) back!

I wanted to show that there is pollution in the ocean. So I mixed blue ink with yellow thermo powder. Then I embroidered “OIL”, which is supposed to show when heated. With oil spills and toxic chemicals being thrown into the ocean daily, it’s no wonder our oceans are turning into polluted seas.

I was inspired by the film Spirited Away when Chihiro have to clean up the stinky spirit and that has turned the monster looking spirit to a majestic looking spirit.

I want to make a critique on pollution and how it’s affecting living things. That’s why I created “Pollupets”

I drew up the pets on paper first

and I mixed thermochromic pigment with transparent base in the ratio of 1:1 then painted on my illustrations.

After that, I put my pollupets in a box and make signs to make audience engage with them

After thinking about what I can do with thermochromic pigment, I see many possibilities I can experiment and have fun with.

This week I worked with thermochromic ink. I found it interesting but I realized its best to stay away from the acrylic ink in order to get my inks to work correctly.

Thermochromic ink is an interesting medium and I wanted to use it to reveal a hidden message to educate an often ignored issue. I remember a year ago when I talked to my parents about mental disorders, they were obviously not very comfortable. It’s not a subject that we discuss often at home but I never understood why. I would normally talked about something else but that time I lingered on the topic longer, only to find out that my parents didn’t understand what mental disorder really is. Misunderstanding, in their case, led to fear and avoidance.

For this week I created a poster that normally only has a face with two eyes (no mouth) and the words “is real.” When the thermochromic ink is activated, the hidden message revealed: “Depression is real” and the face now has a sad expression. However, when I tested the poster with 9V battery, it doesn’t work, even though it works when I blew into it.

For this week assignment, I made my speakers into patterns which are made by conductive tape on colorful cards.

This week I worked on making speakers using mylar and copper tape.

The speakers have a very simple design because while working with this new roll of copper tape I noticed the copper tape was very thin and flimsy compared to my previous roll of copper tape.