Living Wall — Still Dead
© 2011 Mi Cha El La. All rights reserved.
© 2011 Mi Cha El La. All rights reserved.
© 2011 Mi Cha El La. All rights reserved.
It had been quite some time since the old arduino has been at it again… For our class Rest of You. We were asked to connect to Processing via Arduino. I first started by doing a very simple lab. The … Continue reading
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Continued from… Part 1 and Part 2 [to see design intent see these two links] Coming into ITP my interest lie/lied in creating places from underutilized spaces. The city was/is thought of as a canvas albeit with many things already existing … Continue reading
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Additional sources of inspiration or things that seem to remind me of why, I, indeed am here and what my interest are in this program:
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For the final project I am building a surface/wall that is defensive bold or what have you… As a person nears it, it too challenges the user by getting closer to the user. It will be comprised of a set … Continue reading
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For our Observations Assignment I went to WholeFoods on 14th Street and sought out a seat by the windows overlooking the square. WholeFoods was packed as usual but I managed to find a seat and lugged myself onto a high … Continue reading
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Pousse Cafe finally came to an end about two weeks ago when Paragini Amin, Fred Truman and I, hashed over it and built the differing components to make what looked like an espresso retro machine that upon command provides the … Continue reading
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So the Oils were in-determinant… or rather uncontrollable much like our bubbles very early on in the media controller conception… so rather than fight the physical properties of these liquids we are now taking its inherent qualities and are on … Continue reading
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Here we are testing oil paint in oil, oil paint in vegetable oil, and then adding salt. The salt weighs down onto the oil and seems to attach itself and glop up the oil. We are not scientist… Despite looking … Continue reading
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So after some reading, some decisions, some emailing, and some going around town in search for materials… Here is a quick few test with differing viscous materials. These retain their integrity and do not mix. These also find their way … Continue reading
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So a few weeks ago after some wandering and wondering we decided to make a “lava lamp” of sorts… A graphical and physical output that was determined by the data that was pumped into a tank and fed from data … Continue reading
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So about two weeks ago we were asked to get together in groups and think about creating a media controller that would control some kind of medium in real time. The user would affect the medium via some kind of … Continue reading