Fontography


Project status: Ongoing

A pen and ink rendering of Geoffrey Tory's work (Champfleury) originally published in 1529.



Interactive3D Digital Pop-up Book Concept


The idea is to be able to interact with the digital pop-up characters of the story, much like with a paper pop-up book where you can pull, push, squeeze, drag, scale story scenes, objects, and characters by interacting with paper tabs. The drawings I made above aren't exactly 3D since at the time I didn't know how to made 3D models. I'll update them as I'm currently learning to use 3ds max and elaborate the concept and perhaps make it a reality :) 

Diablo 3 dog tag

My first experiment with a laser etching with help from Arthur P.






Festival of Learning 2012


Festival of Learning
Photo from the Festival of Learning photo stream on Flickr




Over the weekend of Jan 27-28, I participated in the Festival of Learning at the Media Lab. It was a student organized event in the spirit of the MIT Independant Activities PeriodI organized a session on MMOs with Joi Ito and we did a demo using Star Wars: The Old Republic as it is a new MMO. We tried to demo gameplay with other members of our guild but soon realized that it was difficult to demo "fun" by having people watch us play so we switched to letting people roll their own characters and playing themselves. This was the first MMO workshop I've helped organize and I hope to do plenty more.  


PushPop


Project status: Complete with working prototype


A programmable physical notification system that can be connected to your calendar, Facebook or any other online interface. The cylinders pop out when a notification pops up on your computer and you can push the cylinder back to get more details of the notification as well as to dismiss it. Prototype is working with Google calendar notifications. The colors of cylinders represent the categories of notifications and the degree to which the cylinder pops out represents urgency.

PushPop







Foggy+


Foggy+ is a concept design that uses fog on cold glass surfaces to send short messages to friends created during Fall 2011 in the Tangible Media class taught by Hiroshi Ishii.



Foggy+



Microcontrollers



First experiments with a microcontroller, copper tape and an led.