The TuneSash is complete! Unfortunately, I spent over six hours attempting to hack the iHome iH85, but in the end it just did not work. Instead, I created an audio amplifier out of an LM386 chip, and I have to say…it sounds awesome! Most of my day was spent taking apart the iH85 and resoldering [...]

day 1 – make t-shirt design / learn to use a sewing machine I decided to do a t-shirt design / learn to use a sewing machine on Day 1. Here are the materials I used: The material I used for the front was a nylon belt which was quite difficult to work with. I [...]

My project for 5-in-5 today was a system of software organisms that create drawings through behaviors. In the early spring I went to go see Casey Reas speak about his work. He referenced Sol LeWitt’s instruction based art works as a source for his work. LeWitt would send parameters and instructions to galleries to create [...]

My day 1 project was about an analogy between retro video games and printmaking. The Nintendo Entertainment System has a limited palette: of fifty-odd possible colors, only twenty-five can appear at any one time, and only four of those can be used in a single sprite. Games produced for the NES made careful use of [...]

I visited Japan two years ago and collected a lot of stuff. At an arcade in Hiroshima, I played a claw machine over and over again, winning many small toys (pictured below). I had wanted to do some sort of project with them for a while. The toys are overly cute, and the game was [...]

He’s new and improved, and now with Ironman colors! It’s ‘The Welcome Robot, 1.5′! On Day#1 of 5-in- 5, I made the ‘Welcome Robot, 1.5′ which greets ITPers with a friendly wave at times when Matt is not at the front desk. This is the latest version of the “Welcome Robot” which I started this [...]

I made a trip to the local thrift store today for some inspiration and tools. I had in mind that I wanted to use a television (I considered taking out the tube and modding it into a bookshelf) and came upon this really cool, old TV (1984). Wanting to stick with my idea of re-engineering [...]

Hi! So Stella Kim and I had talked about working on this as a midterm during the upcoming semester. Just this morning, I figured why not try it today. RootPoops gives you all the encouragement you’ll need while using the toilet. We could all use someone cheering us on! In one day, I aimed to [...]

So my partner, Stella who I planned to work together for the first project but had the horrible misfortune of losing her precious laptop (not her fault), so she had to drop out, which left me with a free day to come up with something new. I’ve struggled all Sunday night, trying to plan something [...]

Well, since labor day is right around the corner, and leaves will start falling soon after, Day 1′s project had to be Summer Mittens. I’m simply running out of time to wear them. Besides the ability to keep you cool, these mittens will satisfy to the OCD patient in you. I used a breathable jersey [...]

Today I will be making the TuneSash. It’s a sash that contains an audio ampllifier, a speaker, an input jack, and possibly some sort of pocket for holding an audio player. My initial intention was to make the TuneSash as generic as possible…meaning any audio player can be used. But since this is a one-off [...]

For my first day, I’m putting together a story, as told by my friends over voicemail. Last week, I asked two of my closest friends, Luis and Vitto to do something simple for me: call and leave voicemails about each other on my phone. I’ve wanted to do a narrative story using voicemails for a [...]

I’ve been growing very concerned about the dollar becoming devalued as of late. Therefore, I feel I can put some good old American Ingenuity towards the task of making us a new standard – one based in Gold (at least theoretically) like our last great currency! Here’s my intial design: