Today’s class includes the remaining three project presentations.

Warm-up

• Brief check-in.
• Any questions?

Announcements

In-Class Activities

Each remaining project group will present their work for critique.

Final Report

• The final report deadline will be 10AM on Monday May 17 to allow you to integrate any critique. We will not offer any extensions past this due date.

Today’s class includes one project presentation and other final interventions.

Warm-up

• Brief check-in.
• Any questions?

Announcements

• We will keep our Monday, May 10 (9:30AM – 11:30AM) exam window. All students will be expected to attend this session.
• Any group that would like to give a practice talk early on Monday (prior to the 9:30 session), please send us a note.

In-Class Activities

Private practice talk for the one group presenting today.

Work session for everyone else.

Near the end of class one group will present their work for critique.

Assignment 25

• Prepare for the final critique, including a draft of your final report post.
• The final report deadline will be 10AM on Monday May 17 to allow you to integrate any critique. We will not offer any extensions past this due date.

Today’s class is primarily devoted to final interventions.

Warm-up

• Brief check-in.
• Any questions?

Announcements

• We will keep our Monday, May 10 (9:30AM – 11:30AM) exam window. All students will be expected to attend this session.
• Any group that would like to present on Thursday, May 6 during class is welcome to do so. Those students presenting on 5/6 are expected to participate in the 5/10 critique, though they will not present their project on 5/10.

In-Class Activities

Quick progress review.

Have you tested your project telematically using the MQTT server?

How can we best help you finish?

Work session: we’ll answer questions as needed.

Assignment 24

• We’ll discuss individual objectives with each group.
• Please post a short blog post with a progress update.
• This is due Thursday, May 6 at the beginning of class.

Today’s class is primarily devoted to check-ins and hooking up air motors.

Warm-up

• Brief check-in.
• Any questions?

Announcements

• We will keep our Monday, May 10 (9:30AM – 11:30AM) exam window. All students will be expected to attend this session.
• Any group that would like to present on Thursday, May 5 during class is welcome to do so. Those students presenting on 5/5 are expected to participate in the 5/10 critique, though they will not present their project on 5/10.

In-Class Activities

Quick progress review.

Air Pumps Demo: during class Garth will give a demonstration on wiring up the electronic air pumps to the Circuit Playgrounds. Students using air pumps will participate and get their own air pumps going.

Work session: Students not using the air pumps will have a work session guided by a technique Olivia will introduce.

Assignment 23

• We’ll discuss individual objectives with each group.
• Please post a short blog post with a progress update.
• This is due Tuesday, May 4 at the beginning of class.

Today’s class is primarily devoted to check-ins and worktime.

Warm-up

• Brief check-in.
• Any questions?

Announcements

Clarification of final deadlines and the scheduled exam period.

In-Class Activities

Each student will receive a custom-made bite size assignment to complete during class. We will share out at the end of class.

Assignment 22

• We’ll discuss individual objectives with each group.
• Please post a short blog post with a progress update.
• This is due Thursday, April 29 at the beginning of class.

Today’s class is primarily devoted to presentation and discussion.

Warm-up

• Brief check-in.
• Any questions?

Announcements

In-Class Activities

Paired group breakouts to mutually discuss ideas.

Each group will share their idea for Project 2: Active Proxy Body with the whole class.

Brief individual group meetings to discuss near-term objectives.

Assignment 21

• We’ll discuss individual objectives with each group.
• Please post a short blog post with a progress update.
• This is due Tuesday, April 27 at the beginning of class.

Today’s class is primarily devoted to presentation and discussion.

Warm-up

• Brief check-in.
• Any questions?

Announcements

In-Class Activities

Each group will share their idea for Project 2: Active Proxy Body with the whole class.

Paired group breakouts to mutually discuss ideas.

Presentation of new motor pump technology. (see videos below)

Brief individual group meetings to discuss near-term objectives.

Assignment 20

• We’ll discuss individual objectives with each group.
• Please post a short blog post with a progress update.
• This is due Thursday, April 22 at the beginning of class.

Air Pump Inflatable Videos

Videos of pumps with different inflatables:

Video of a tour of pump, wires and tubes:

Today’s class is primarily devoted to presentation and discussion.

Warm-up

• Brief check-in.
• Any questions?

Announcements

In-Class Activities

Introduce Project 2: Active Proxy Body

Share examples (see below)

Research activity.

Assignment 19

• Connect with your partner to develop your ideas for Project 2. Brainstorm to find an idea that you both are excited about. Create one wordpress post to share your proposed idea. This post should include:
  • drawings of the ideas
  • writing about the project that thinks through the following topics: identifying the behaviors and sensing modalities, working within a telematic framework, concisely states the concept within the idea
  • a list of materials and technologies you propose to use
• This will be a collaborative assignment.
• This is due Tuesday, April 20 at the beginning of class.

Inspirations

Conflict Kitchen

Subtela: Black Touchpad Dress and Wearable Absence

LEE BLALOCK, ‘I SING THE BODY CYBERNETIC’

Sara Malinarich

Slideshow of some inspirations

Today’s class is primarily devoted to presentation and discussion.

Warm-up

• Brief check-in.
• Any questions?

Announcements

In-Class Activities

Discussion about approaches to critique.

Project presentations.

No Assignment Today

Today’s class is primarily devoted to discussion and review.

Warm-up

• Brief check-in.
• Any questions?

Announcements

• Soft Technologies Office Hours: Wednesdays, 7-8pm at this zoom link
  • with Professors Olivia Robinson, Chris Atkeson (RI), Melisa Orta Martinez (RI), and Jim McCann (CS).
• Illuminate: Randy Pausch Bridge Light-Up Night 2021
  • Did anyone go? How did it go?

In-Class Activities

More precedent work (see below).

Anyone have any particular updates they would like to share with the class?

Individual group breakout sessions. Garth and Olivia will move from group to group to consult.

Assignment 18

Due: Thursday, April 8 (Day 19).

Your Project 1 is due for our next class. In this final stretch of the project you should work to resolve any elements of your project. Thursday’s class will be “show time”. Your main focus should be looking at what is working well in your project and then documenting your project well.

If your project is fully working, focus on creating compelling documentation that tells the narrative of your work. If your project is not fully realized how you have planned, take a close look at it and ask, what is working? Focus on finding and finishing what is working. Find an underlining authentic elements that are working. Then use documentation to tell the story of the part that is working.

Documenting the narrative of the work means observing the work and describing what the work is actually doing. It is not the story of the process (we have already done that with all the other posts), it is now the story of the finished work. It is often very hard to see a work separate from what we had hoped it would become. This is the time to challenge yourself to the work for itself.

What series of photos and/or videos will tell the best story? How can you direct our focus with your documentation? How can your title or your writing help us see what you are seeing?

• For Thursday, April 8, create a blog post with documentation of Project 1.
• Come prepared to share your documentation of your project in the class.

Videos

3D printed textiles

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/defextiles/overview/

Self Assembly Labs

https://selfassemblylab.mit.edu/

Documentation Examples

• https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/16-375/f2018/work/2018/12/13/anti-drawing-machine-final/
• https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/99-361/s2019a/push-pull-part-1-julia-nishizaki/
• Woven Skin: https://vimeo.com/437672751