Week 2
Zine
My kit of no parts
As a CMD student I think that sharing knowledge is important. For me, this means that I can share my process and way of thinking with others to inspire them. I only do it if there is a demand because I can share it with people who find it interesting. It is interesting and educational for me to see in a project how someone's way of thinking is and how the person came up with an idea. Sometimes I think it's a shame that things are only held for the designer.
If I get stuck in my work process and cannot continue, I sometimes ask others to share their process with me. If something is completely new to me and nobody within my circle can help, I sometimes watch a tutorial on YouTube. Furthermore, I do not ask further if I do not understand. If I want to know something very specific, I ask Reddit where people are very helpful. I once asked Reddit a question about JavaScript, unfortunately I was unable to get help with that at the time, but on the other hand it was nice to know that I was not the only one with that problem.
I find it difficult to transfer technology in a didactic way to someone else, especially if the person does not know anything about the subject.
Nowadays you have a kit for almost everything you want to make. Do you want to learn how to program with sensors and actuators and you can order an Arduino kit and get started. This is an example of a kit. With a kit without parts you will look for alternative ways to create, share and collaborate. In that regard, I often have a "fuck it" mentality. I easily let go of ideas that I had before and then "I'll see" what I come up with. In my project during Emerging Technologies, this resulted in a great product.
Hacking
When are you a hacker? If you interrupt a certain process and do something else with it. Hacking does not always have to do with coding and programming. When you search for images on Google for "hacker" it seems to be put down negatively, someone with a mask on in a dark room behind a computer doing something with code.
On my 14th birthday I got a Playstation Portable (PSP), a year ago when I found it again, I hacked it by watching a tutorial on YouTube. I recently did the same with an old Wii that I got. For years no games have been made for this and they are almost impossible to find. By hacking both of them, I can download games and transfer them via USB. In this process there was also a "fuck it" mentality, there were so many ways that this could go wrong and these consoles could be thrown away in the trash. Still I started to try and see what I would end up with (Getting lost ) and yet again it worked out well.
Reflection
The last time I've worked with circuits was more than 10 years ago when I was in middle school. In the beginning it was just as difficult to pick up again because I used to have a lot of trouble with this, but now I understood it better than then in middel school and it all made a lot more sense. I don't know if that was because I am a little older now or if this was poorly explained to me in the past.
I liked making the speakers but at the same time frustrating to do. At first I didn't know it was possible to do it that way. I enjoyed soldering and I hadn't done that for at least 10 years, but it was still as good as back in the days. The frustrating part for me was sewing. I did not had any experience in it and I've made a lot of beginners mistakes that i had to solve the hard way. The speaker was working but the sound was very low. If I had sewn over it again the sound would be better to hear.
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