When I turn on my phone and go through Facebook, there is at least one photo like this: taken in a Starbucks, no character, cut-off background, catching the dim light of Beijing’s afternoon. The person who took the photo picked specifically the seat close to the window, some sunlight shines through the window on the surface of a coffee table.
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My grandfather used to have an old teapot which I thought was very unattractive. This teapot is little but chunky, with a short sprout and a narrow round handle, it is engraved with a poem but I never paid attention to what the poem is really about. It only holds two cups of tea, which means you have to fill it up for every 10 minutes.
Image the world without real mirrors, what could a magic mirror look like. San Francisco does not snow over the year, as a girl comes from northern part of the country, I really miss the white Christmas. This prototype is specifically made for Christmas in SF, associate with christmas tree with led light coded in Arduino program, and using camera to reflect the player, and player can catch the snow flakes on the screen to enjoy the White Christmas.
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To make a music box using processing and Arduino.
Trying to make a fun project, I connect Makey Makey and processing together to form a fruit band that people can play with.
It has a piano, a drum set, also light flashes depends on what keys the player is playing.
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If you ask a hundred people, what does the world look like, you probably will get a general idea that the world has a blue sky, and warm sunshine; that you can hear people talking around coffee shops, and children playing in the park. However if you ask individuals the same question, you probably will hear toys, sweets, balloons and McDonalds from a child; coffee, newspaper and the park from an old man; work, money, or a home loan and children from a parent.
“If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient
—or just plain happier—by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded.”
-(Henry Dreyfuss. Designing for people. 8 )
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