Projects and learnings
Open Kinetics are low cost kits that inspire learners of all ages to explore interactive technology through movement-based play. The aim of Open Kinetics kits is to create an affordable, accessible, and engaging platform that teachers can easily bring into their classrooms to foster technological agency in their students. Here’s my full thesis presentation!
I recently taught an hour long workshop on Scratch, a visual programming language built for fostering technical literacy in children. It’s a wonderful tool for teaching computational thinking and programming, one that I thought other ITP students would enjoy learning about, especially in the context of teaching. The full syllabus for the workshop can be … Continue reading Final: Scratching the Surface
I started this project interested in exploring B Corporations and Benefit Corporations, two similar for-profit business structures geared toward social good rather than simply profit maximization. Specifically, I wanted to investigate how sustainable these social business structures are in a capitalist system built around profit maximization and stockholder returns. First, a bit about B Corporations and … Continue reading Founder, The Game
When we got our first crash course on Wireshark two weeks ago I was understandably overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information the tool produces. After spending some time with it, I feel slightly more comfortable, but by no means less intimidated. As a total layman to network administration, I had to climb a steep … Continue reading Hunting for packets
Where is my web traffic sent when I surf the internet? What companies interact with my data as I bounce from one site to another? That’s what we set out to explore with our assignment this week. I focused my traces on three domains I visit every day from both my apartment and the ITP … Continue reading Physical Traces
Because my research topic is so broad, there are many systems that it may sit within or encompass. To keep things simple, I’ll focus on two big ones: the solar system, the capitalist economic system. Solar System Here I am focusing on the heliocentric model of the solar system, which was a paradigm shifting idea … Continue reading Systems of Paradigm Shifts
As the title of this post says, I’m finally using the 4 axis to mill aluminum! First step was to cut that massive bar of aluminum I had down to size. After cutting the bar, I measured and remeasured my material. 6″x2″x1.5″ each time. Great. I used a screw to bore a small hole into … Continue reading Subtraction Final: FINALly, Aluminum on the 4 Axis
You can find the Github repository for this project here. This week I wrote a Python script that was designed to take the transcript from Donald Trump’s first press conference as president, isolate any lines that contain the word “fake”, and print those lines. SOURCE TEXT I am using a New York Times transcript of … Continue reading Fake TRUMPS
This week we learned how to use Python to transform text. It took me a while to settle on a source text for this project, but I eventually settled on a Jack Underwood poem I found on the Poetry Foundation. Here is the full piece: I was mostly drawn to this poem because of the … Continue reading It Sat
What: A digital slingshot game that uses a real slingshot and motion tracking. How: A leap motion provides the motion tracking, while a SlingShot outfitted with a stretch sensor connected to an Arduino Uno initiates shots. The last time I posted about this project I was proposing it as my ICM final project after initially developing it … Continue reading ICM Final Project: SlingShot
