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The Music Box

The Music Box is a project about music and abstract tangible interaction. Technology has moved into a 2D space filled with screens. Sure,...

Revisited: The Dream Turntable

Let's build up on top of the previous iteration of the Dream Turntable. Premise: Create a robust, tangible and unconventional interface t...

The Dream Turntable

Musicians know, either unconsciously or not, that the interface makes the music. What I mean by this is that the instrument you use to ma...

Ghost Loofah

So, long story short, Johnny the ghost lost his loofah in another dimension and we have to help him find it because he really misses taki...

A Colorful Etch A Sketch

Hardware Serial + P5.js is extremely interesting. It opens the possibility of connecting a tangible interface to the web world, allowing ...

A Safer Bicycle Handrail

For this week's project, I wanted to try a different tangible interface. I browsed the different Arduino libraries to get a sense of what...

Digital I/O Experiment

For last week's assignment, I tried to create a potentiometer from scratch. This time, I wanted to try and create something that would le...

Creating a Switch

For this week's assignment I wanted to explore to possibility of creating a cardboard-based potentiometer from scratch. The premise was s...

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