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Instead of incorporating humans literally…","frontmatter":{"date":"2014-03-08T20:40:15.000Z","path":"/notes/fungus-among-us-final-project-progress/","title":"Fungus Among Us: Final project progress"}}},{"node":{"id":"d025fef0-0ea3-59d7-8942-90ede56df7d7","excerpt":"Last weekend, Mike and I spoke with Derek Woods, a theoretical lichenologist. We discussed how the academic field of biology is not currently designed to answer the basic biological question “what is lichen?” and how theoretical lichenology…","frontmatter":{"date":"2014-03-04T17:12:10.000Z","path":"/notes/humungi/","title":"Humungi"}}},{"node":{"id":"f9c6df33-62dd-5302-a25d-bc7b239442d7","excerpt":"My thesis project continues to evolve as I explore the world of online adolescence. I rewrote my thesis proposal statement, originally posted here, to better address the “big ideas” I want to address. Here it is: Sarah suggested I use people’s old…","frontmatter":{"date":"2014-03-01T21:43:42.000Z","path":"/notes/thesis-progress-building-a-chatbot-a-day/","title":"Thesis Progress: Building a chatbot a day"}}},{"node":{"id":"957b633a-9fb0-5dd6-ba99-aeca6c38373c","excerpt":"Sam’s Amazing List is a web-based essay that, through expositions, interviews, videos and photographs, revisits and responds to an online journal I kept at age 14.Using web standards (HTML, CSS & JS), I will create an immersive online personal essay…","frontmatter":{"date":"2014-02-16T20:12:35.000Z","path":"/notes/sams-amazing-list-a-thesis-project-proposal/","title":"Sam’s Amazing List, a thesis project proposal"}}},{"node":{"id":"778d8bde-558e-5be8-949e-06d2a7e74a57","excerpt":"For Fungus Among Us, I’ve focused my research to lichen. Two aspects of lichen I find interesting are: They are a composite organism, a fungus and a photosynthesizer (algae or cyanobacteria) living together as one. 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Being the second-ever and, at the time, reigning champion of my fantasy football league, I felt it would be appropriate to spend some time at ITP producing…","frontmatter":{"date":"2014-02-01T16:48:12.000Z","path":"/notes/making-the-worlds-first-internet-enabled-fantasy-football-trophy-part-1-fabrication/","title":"Making the world's first internet-enabled fantasy football trophy, part 1: Fabrication"}}},{"node":{"id":"300e83f0-b3ba-5141-b4d8-d7443910f051","excerpt":"BadFighter is a two-player fighting game created by myself and Mike Allison for the Interactive 3D workgroup at ITP. We built it using Three.js and Physijs. The source code is available on GitHub and I encourage you to go check it out and help make…","frontmatter":{"date":"2013-12-19T20:45:42.000Z","path":"/notes/badfighter-the-baddest-2-player-fighting-game-ever/","title":"BadFighter: The baddest 2-player fighting game ever"}}},{"node":{"id":"54222420-508c-5f4e-9d86-59239aee1242","excerpt":"Plant Pinball is a virtual pinball game designed to teach users about the role roots play in the livelihood of a plant and the special qualities they have developed that enables them to survive. The project was done for the class Playful…","frontmatter":{"date":"2013-07-04T03:25:16.000Z","path":"/notes/plant-pinball/","title":"Plant Pinball"}}},{"node":{"id":"598143e7-0673-52e9-bcf8-f8129e791a89","excerpt":"Purpose To explore how accurately the position of Mariah Carey’s hand during live performance reflects the pitch of the note she is singing. Hypothesis I hypothesize that Mariah’s hand is not a perfect representation of the pitch but will produce a…","frontmatter":{"date":"2013-06-22T18:15:10.000Z","path":"/notes/mariah-careys-hand/","title":"Mariah Carey’s Hand"}}},{"node":{"id":"e61737c0-2e86-5a8e-8b24-3f18c4b329b5","excerpt":"For our final project in Sculpting Data Into Everyday Objects, I worked with Ben Kauffman to visualize the cohort1 dropout rate for high schools in New York City using data from the city’s Department of Education.\nEach bead on the map represents one…","frontmatter":{"date":"2013-06-05T19:58:39.000Z","path":"/notes/nyc-high-school-dropouts/","title":"Visualizing NYC high school dropouts"}}},{"node":{"id":"e723ff4f-471c-502b-bbbf-19399f3d64f4","excerpt":"Instagram takes your photos and makes them look bad, because vintage is trendy. Instagramophone imagines what would happen if phone calls worked the same way. My final project for Redial, Instagramophone* is a service that lets a user choose from…","frontmatter":{"date":"2013-05-10T20:20:54.000Z","path":"/notes/instagramophone/","title":"Instagramophone"}}},{"node":{"id":"19b320ed-759d-51e7-9434-79800ce6ff79","excerpt":"For my Data Rep final, I am comparing the position of Mariah Carey’s hand to the note that she is singing and re-imagining her melodies as if played by an invisible theremin. See here for my initial post. Work has been coming along well. This past…","frontmatter":{"date":"2013-04-17T00:52:33.000Z","path":"/notes/progress-on-mariahs-hand/","title":"Progress on Mariah’s Hand"}}},{"node":{"id":"89601a14-42c1-5ba1-909f-dd96c91cee5e","excerpt":"My recent assignment for Redial, called “Il Telefono di Pavarotti” (add or remove Os as you wish), transforms the screams of us mere mortals into the rich tenor bellow of one Luciano Pavarotti. Just turn up your volume, visit the website and call…","frontmatter":{"date":"2013-04-17T00:05:42.000Z","path":"/notes/il-telefono-di-pavarott/","title":"Il Telefono di Pavarotti"}}},{"node":{"id":"9d0d8ba2-c0a3-53b5-b102-bb67bd34534d","excerpt":"I have some serious, deep, issue-tackling projects nearing completion. This is not one of them. For my final project in Data Representation, I will answer the question “how does the position of Mariah Carey’s flailing hand relate to the pitch of her…","frontmatter":{"date":"2013-03-25T17:27:16.000Z","path":"/notes/data-rep-final-proposal-mariahs-hand/","title":"Data Rep Final Proposal: Mariah’s Hand"}}},{"node":{"id":"4de39dc2-f94b-535f-80ec-620bb4c642a0","excerpt":"Let me just give my old friend Liam Neeson a quick call and see what he’s – oh, hello? Liam? My midterm project for Redial is entitled “555-LIAM.” My computer runs a loop of that one scene that everyone knows from Taken, and at any time I feel like…","frontmatter":{"date":"2013-03-09T20:36:27.000Z","path":"/notes/555-liam/","title":"555-LIAM"}}},{"node":{"id":"1cb40b6f-1ba3-5a6a-9d7a-8ca89ad7fb34","excerpt":"Hey internet, watch out! I can now produce these:  I used TileMill to color the states according to their Civil War allegiances, and Processing with Unfolding to place the dots. That dot way off in Idaho (Washington Territory at the time) is the site…","frontmatter":{"date":"2013-03-08T05:13:28.000Z","path":"/notes/my-first-animated-gif-map/","title":"My first animated GIF map!"}}},{"node":{"id":"d4cfe30a-2cd6-5d8c-90a4-4aea46849970","excerpt":"This week in Data Rep, we are working with a database of 500,000 hotels around the globe. The assignment is to create different maps for hotel star ratings, to find the northernmost hotel and to find the most remote hotel. Split by Star Rating In…","frontmatter":{"date":"2013-03-03T00:03:52.000Z","path":"/notes/data-rep-500000-hotels/","title":"Data Rep: 500,000 hotels"}}},{"node":{"id":"dab3c287-17bb-5bf9-8039-16aede8ceab6","excerpt":"This week, Redial had me finally becoming familiar with Ruby. We used AGI (Asterisk Gateway Interface) to pull info from the web and have it do something over the phone. My application takes two zipcodes entered on the keypad and sends them to a web…","frontmatter":{"date":"2013-02-26T13:46:07.000Z","path":"/notes/redial-agi-and-ruby/","title":"Redial: AGI and Ruby"}}},{"node":{"id":"d9c6027f-7869-5002-a8d5-128f962bcab0","excerpt":"This week for Data Rep, we had to take a dataset from the Guardian’s Data Blog and represent it in two different ways – one “dry” and one specific to the data it represents. I chose the dataset titled “Pineapple Business Figures.” It contains a list…","frontmatter":{"date":"2013-02-25T03:17:43.000Z","path":"/notes/data-rep-pineapples/","title":"Data Rep: Pineapples"}}},{"node":{"id":"9950d9b6-57bc-581a-ab63-66b06733f3c1","excerpt":"In Redial, we’ve started working with Asterisk to create our own phone systems. In class, we share a common phone number and each have our own extension, which, when dialed, runs our code. After looking through the available Asterisk commands, I…","frontmatter":{"date":"2013-02-11T17:46:25.000Z","path":"/notes/intro-to-the-asterisk-dialplan-phoneoke/","title":"Intro to the Asterisk dialplan: Phoneoke"}}},{"node":{"id":"3b26011f-a920-50f6-9736-4e4f46eab584","excerpt":"My final project for Phys Comp is Cat Car, a “Feline Fitness Frenzy!” It was intended as a cat exercise toy, however ultimately the cats I tested it on didn’t really care much for it. But that’s not the point! I learned quite a bit about…","frontmatter":{"date":"2012-12-17T04:07:52.000Z","path":"/notes/cat-car/","title":"Cat Car"}}},{"node":{"id":"d1869184-e01a-5106-8f53-315e80dde720","excerpt":"I’m behind on sharing! Here’s “The Big Bang,” a sound-based galaxy maker, built with DD and Edward for our Phys Comp midterm.","frontmatter":{"date":"2012-12-08T04:45:55.000Z","path":"/notes/the-big-bang/","title":"The Big Bang"}}},{"node":{"id":"ce1f1d28-6732-5036-8b41-e3034d9e28da","excerpt":"Cat Car is a cat exercise device. Using a wireless steering wheel, you control a laser mounted on a servo (mounted on a cat). Steering wheel left, laser left, cat left. I’m using a MPU-6050 “6 degrees of freedom” accelerometer/gyroscope. I will write…","frontmatter":{"date":"2012-12-02T21:16:01.000Z","path":"/notes/tests-for-cat-car/","title":"Tests for Cat Car"}}},{"node":{"id":"859c52a5-463d-5738-a819-bcdf61a8f88a","excerpt":"See part 1. Quick update. Today I built an “enclosure” for my sound sensor. Behold: The microphone is set back because of how closely I initially soldered it to the PCB. This was impacting the microphone’s ability to capture sound, so after taking…","frontmatter":{"date":"2012-10-06T22:31:51.000Z","path":"/notes/tracking-street-noise-part-2/","title":"Tracking street noise, part 2"}}},{"node":{"id":"715f780e-768e-5f98-aa19-d2c478803ce7","excerpt":"The other day, I was talking with Jay about tracking street noise. I thought it would be neat to record a video of the street for however many hours and giving it away to anyone who wanted to extract data from it. Taxi frequency, direction of…","frontmatter":{"date":"2012-10-04T14:37:46.000Z","path":"/notes/tracking-street-noise/","title":"Tracking street noise"}}},{"node":{"id":"c7dce13b-8ae4-5203-a57f-8f49d68dfd8f","excerpt":"For the audio lab in PComp, I built the Drinking Buddy. He just wants to sing German drinking songs with you! And even though he probably thinks the more he drinks, the better he gets… that just isn’t true. As your breath alcohol increases, more…","frontmatter":{"date":"2012-09-30T19:54:55.000Z","path":"/notes/drinking-buddy/","title":"Drinking buddy"}}},{"node":{"id":"cc246cd7-709b-5cba-ab79-fa7960bc0282","excerpt":"Reading Tom Igoe’s “Greatest Hits” article reinforces the point that it isn’t so much about what form of interaction you choose, but the idea behind the interaction. Ideas give meaning to technology: they turn a bunch of pressure sensors on a glove…","frontmatter":{"date":"2012-09-30T17:35:02.000Z","path":"/notes/pcomp-hits-and-misses/","title":"Reaction to physical computing’s greatest hits (and misses)"}}},{"node":{"id":"a54d8cb0-48d6-562f-8dab-c95df8b5a8ca","excerpt":"This weekend I took a trip with some classmates to the excellent American Museum of Natural History here in New York. There were plenty of interactive components to exhibits, mostly in the (rather disappointing) Creatures of Light exhibit. One…","frontmatter":{"date":"2012-09-23T20:26:46.000Z","path":"/notes/observing-interaction/","title":"Observing interaction at the Museum of Natural History"}}},{"node":{"id":"f359292f-4dd8-56a4-a1a9-8898539d0ef1","excerpt":"The analog assignment was to recreate a “luv-o-meter,” as found in dive bars across the country. Instead of grip pressure, I used a sonar rangefinder to detect proximity. This triggered lights on an RGB LED Strip (as previously seen in “Windows 9…","frontmatter":{"date":"2012-09-21T13:09:35.000Z","path":"/notes/physical-computing-labs-analog-and-digital-inputs/","title":"Physical Computing labs: Analog and digital inputs"}}},{"node":{"id":"d677dea2-f02b-5139-8dc9-a3d04a28ffbe","excerpt":"Our assignment this week in Understanding Genomes: extract DNA from strawberries. The “common strawberry” is an octoploid, meaning each cell contains eight copies of each chromosome. This makes it a prime candidate for experimentation. Here's the…","frontmatter":{"date":"2012-09-18T16:55:03.000Z","path":"/notes/strawberry-dna-extraction/","title":"Strawberry DNA extraction"}}},{"node":{"id":"487da912-cb41-570c-90f8-83955e586eba","excerpt":"As part of our Applications presentation (see also: Dreamachine), I built Atmosfear, an atmospheric audio experience made possible by the laptops of our fellow classmates. Everyone was asked to visit the website and select a fear. Their computers…","frontmatter":{"date":"2012-09-13T20:30:16.000Z","path":"/notes/atmosfear/","title":"Atmosfear"}}},{"node":{"id":"aaf71ceb-472e-548b-b319-62b796a281d9","excerpt":"A group of classmates and I will be giving a presentation next week to our Applications class. It will be in response to a presentation we saw last week from Kevin Cunningham of 3-Legged Dog, a workspace and accompanying theater group that blends…","frontmatter":{"date":"2012-09-10T22:10:58.000Z","path":"/notes/building-a-dreamachine/","title":"Building a dreamachine"}}},{"node":{"id":"aabe90cb-7bb1-57eb-b06b-27b052068250","excerpt":"In a few weeks I will begin my time as a student in NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. It is my understanding that a blog will be required, and to that end I have set one up. More to come!","frontmatter":{"date":"2012-08-25T18:14:46.000Z","path":"/notes/back-to-the-blog/","title":"Back to the blog"}}}]}},"pageContext":{"category":"ITP"}}}