MERL Pilot Workshop Kit The pilot workshop at MERL was based upon two main activities, both relating to sound. The first activity involved... 6 September 2013
Testing Session at MERL Ahead of the Autumn workshops planned with Reading College, Kate, Nick and I have planned a session with a... 2 September 2013
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... 22 August 2013
Ideas on Tangible Programming The projects examined in previous posts had a lot of interesting concepts and ideas- this is a condensed list of... 20 August 2013
3D printing Reading University has a 3D printer, which we planned to use for this project. It uses ABS, which is... 18 August 2013
MERL planning Kate and I are planning to hold a preliminary sensory session with a group from Mencap at MERL in... 9 August 2013
Selecting sounds A circuit has been designed around the ISD1820PY chips which allows up to 12 of them to be used... 7 August 2013
Interaction test Showing the sound quality and methods of recording/playback on the prototype. Still needs a better speaker and some batteries,... 6 August 2013
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... 1 August 2013
Sound Collector Module User Interaction The proposed user interaction model will enable the user to record, choose, listen and delete recorded sounds. The device... 31 July 2013
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... 30 July 2013
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... 27 July 2013