Week 8
Zine
Experience
When I look at how I have worked in the past eight weeks, it is different than I normally do at CMD. At CMD you mainly do research on the internet, you create scenarios, you do interviews, you create an experience map and you use other methods. In the minor I do research by making and trying physical things. You think about the material you use and how you use it. In times like quarantine, the materials are scarce and you think about it more than usual.
In “Back to the Basics: Or Why Education Is Going Back to Making” I see more similarities within CMD than in the minor. Except for the fact that we have to think about designing for a contemporary context and understand how the materials work.
Think
Think about what you are going to make and what you need. Write or sketch all your ideas and materials that you may want to use for that. Think about where your material comes from and whether you are doing well to work with it (what your contribution to the environment is, for example). Then choose an idea and continue with it.
Design
What will your idea look like? Design it on paper or on your computer. Optionally make a prototype of paper. If you are going to work with equipment that needs a file, design it immediately.
Make
Make everything as you have thought and makes sense to you. Fail it? Do not throw it away, keep it and try another way. There is also a lot of improvisation involved.
Reflection
This week I've worked with Arduino again. I've learned how to work with a common cathode RGB LED, I've never done this before and it was easy to learn. In this weeks assignment I wanted a bigger challenge and I challenged myself to work with Processing. For me, Processing was another new world that opened up. When i had time left I've tried to make an audio visualizer in Processing, but that was a bit too much for me.
It was nice that I could make something in Processing that will fit in the serie of Loes. I've used the analog sensor I made from week 6 as an input and Processing as output. I did not consider how technical all this was and how much I learned about it in a short time.
For further application I want to see if it is possible to get Processing working in a website and to process that in my own website.
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