Monthly Archives: September 2012

I chose to write about Brenda Laurel, because I believe her take on interactive media and gaming is a unique one. Brenda Laurel makes video games designed for girls, which is something that is rare. She believes the game industry … Continue reading →

Bill Verplank I chose to look at the interview of Bill Verplank. The reason is that it was very impressive when I watch the video of Bill Moggridge, there was a short clip of Bill Verplank drawing simple idea sketch … Continue reading →

I am taking a scene design class this semester, and this is a class that I have wanted to take for a long time, because I think that’s what I want to do. I really enjoy everything that has to … Continue reading →

I chose to look at Joy Mountford’s interview, because she seems to have one of the more interesting and varied backgrounds. She started her training at a company called Honeywell, which did a lot of work for the military. Her … Continue reading →

For this week’s journal entry, out of the many people involved in the Designing Interactions book, I chose to talk about Larry Tesler. The reason I picked Larry is because we are both programmers, even though we program different things, … Continue reading →

After scouring the web for ideas, I think I have a general idea of what I want to do and that is to create something robotic, possibly a robot spider. I am still not sure of how I want to … Continue reading →

Keeping up with this weeks assignment I decided to scour  the arduino playground (such an appropriate name for it) website for some stuff and things pertaining to my project which already implies that I have settled on an idea. I … Continue reading →

So for a couple of weeks now I have been thinking about gadgets and why hasn’t more of it become wearable. Pockets seem to be getting smaller and our phones are getting bigger it seems like the right time to … Continue reading →

I looked up a general tutorial on making music with Arduino, and found this very helpful link. People have been making all kinds of things to playback/create music, such as the drum machines and synthesizers on that page and the … Continue reading →