MERL Pilot Workshop Kit

The pilot workshop at MERL was based upon two main activities, both relating to sound. The first activity involved...

Testing Session at MERL

Ahead of the Autumn workshops planned with Reading College, Kate, Nick and I have planned a session with a...

Demos of Prototypes Smell Box and Sound Collection Modules

Nic showed us unit that could trigger smells which connects to Littlebits triggers. The box contained a strawberry its...

Ideas on Tangible Programming

The projects examined in previous posts had a lot of interesting concepts and ideas- this is a condensed list of...

3D printing

Reading University has a 3D printer, which we planned to use for this project. It uses ABS, which is...

MERL planning

Kate and I are planning to hold a preliminary sensory session with a group from Mencap at MERL in...

Selecting sounds

A circuit has been designed around the ISD1820PY chips which allows up to 12 of them to be used...

Interaction test

Showing the sound quality and methods of recording/playback on the prototype. Still needs a better speaker and some batteries,...

Testing Little Bits Extended Kit

Tested LittleBits Extended Kit with two brothers I know with Aspergers (Jacob, 15, Adam 9/10). Both are very able...

Sound Collector Module User Interaction

The proposed user interaction model will enable the user to record, choose, listen and delete recorded sounds. The device...

Developing tools to enable during prototyping workshops

The image above shows the white board as we discussed the process of collecting sounds at Speke Hall in...

Summary of Tangible Programming projects

TL; DR: A lot of the projects were for research and thus aren’t commercially available- cost has been estimated...
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