Tuesday, October 13, 2009




OK, week seven and we finally had a chance to see what everyone has been working on for the last few weeks.  The results? Kind of stunning, actually; I ran out of superlatives pretty early in the class.

For your edification (look it up!), I have included four basically random photos of projects. Can you guess what they are?

For a lot more photos of the twenty-or-so projects that were submitted, check the various individual blogs, where students document their builds, ideas, drawings, photos and other aspects of their work. These are linked to this page primariy as comments to the last week's entries, and as linkbacks. I will work to get these more organized in the near future to make finding this material a bit easier. In the meantime, though, check them out; some of the projects were too complex to prototype in this class, but the creativity, "failed" attempts, drawings, plans and explanations are amazing in many cases.

We are now on a well-deserved hiatus for a week, and then back at it. For this next part of the course, we will be looking at computation, simulations, games and systems. Hang on - this could get bumpy!



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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Week 6

Today was "work on your Tool / Toy project" day in the lab, and while the atmosphere was pretty relaxed and fun, people were WORKING, and I mean seriously, on getting their piece designed, documented and (somewhat) built.  The level of concentration in many instances was amazing.


This is really turning out to be an interesting project. Next week we will see the outcomes (both the builds and the documentation).