December 22, 2008 @ 9:36 pm

Tikos Proposals

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December 11, 2008 @ 10:54 pm

Making Interactive Toys public presentations and playtesting

From Make Blog [link]

Yury Gitman teaches a class about incorporating electronics into toys, he calls it “Making Toys: Playful Experience Design Through Interactive and Wireless Techniques.” This semester they’re having a public open house to showcase (and play with) the toys they’ve created during the course. There’s RFID, Arduino, and included source code. If you’re in New York, head over to Parsons for the fun:

Making Interactive Toys Presentations and Playtesting
Dec 16th, 2008
Formal Critique 6:30-7:30pm
General Playtesting 7:30-8:30pm

2 W 13th St., 10th Floor [Main Lab, Far Corner]
New York, NY 10011
http://cdt.parsons.edu/

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December 11, 2008 @ 5:51 pm

Bichito [update!]

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November 19, 2008 @ 6:27 pm

Bchito : Week 01

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November 11, 2008 @ 6:26 pm

This Week’s Prototype [Thesis]

This week I focused on switches for my prototypes. I created three simple prototypes based on “soft switches”. I used snaps, magnetic snaps and a zipper.

The intention of these prototypes is to test simple actions that children are able to do and might find interesting to trigger electronics. This is the first stage of my step by step prototyping process to focus week by week on things that work and don’t work for my audience.

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