Looking back over the whole term, I’m happy to end the Idesign course with the project Aerolithe. I pulled out almost all of my abilities: hand sewing wing patterns and embellishments, programming LED strips with positional variations that change with dance movements, communicating with others, and even schoolmates who have graduated, and also a newfound…

◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ Decorate wings Finally came the last week. I have to say how wise it was to leave a tolerable week in the original plan. While the assembly part wasn’t difficult, in did take quite a bit of time. This tells us always have a good self regulation.  Firstly the assembly of…

I’ve spent a lot of time this week refining my code. It’s like I’m back to square one, the beginning of the semester – I’m finding and rebalancing my mindset, because code can be infinitely refined, but it’s a challenge to capture the equilibrium of needs and expectations. First of all, there was the fundamental…

In class the week coming up to Thanksgiving, we gave the Psychology Department (or was it Education?) students an initial presentation of our progress. I got a lot of valid feedback. One of the big ones was that “CPB is so advanced, can’t the difficulty make more interesting tricks?” For example, a gradient rainbow. I…

After confirming all the plans and getting all the materials in the first week (Shein was really slow! But I’m very happy with the texture of all the cloth and stuff), I decided to start by making a rough shape of the wings as planned.  First, I needed to figure out how big the wings…

For the last project, I want to look back to my starting point – the butterfly project. For this time, I want to combine the beauty, elegance, and fluidity of wings and fins and the rhythm of the dance movement, which has a deeper interaction between the user and the product. Hence I want to…

Sweet golden-yellow, that is the pumpkin; Dark grey-blue, that is the cloud… HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! At the end of October, Edlyn, Sophia and I worked as a group and started to plan a project from the beginning. Before the pitch, we tested the Velostat as the demo and all thought it was so useful to build…

This week, we finished the doorbell project. At the inception of designing how “a person can activate the doorbell” and “how someone on the other side can be notified when the doorbell is activated,” I employed step-by-step programming techniques I had learned during my introduction to the circuit playground, continuously refining my approach throughout the…

This week we need to combine both woodworking and the Circuit Playground Express. It is so cool that brings me the sense of cross-linking between two distinct subjects and I was welcomed and belonged to a new technology! Honestly, I quickly decided what I wanted to do. Since it is a “cross” project, I want my…

The music box project is the first project that combines programmed LED and music appliances. In the first part of the design, I had already built a general idea of “magic box”: including the music of the famous magic girl transformation in the anime: and the beautiful pink patterns: Hence during the coding, I self-regulated…