Illuminating Garden

The Illuminating Garden by Marla Bernstein and Carolyn Castanon is an interactive art installation used to entertain, soothe the mind, and brighten the soul.

Our entire concept of the Illuminating Garden was solidified along the way of design process. We began knowing that we wanted to use this product called Bare Conductive paint. This allows users to trigger outputs, in our case, LEDs, by touching the paint. We started with such a small concept that turned into an incredible interactive piece.

Read more here and check out their documentation here: https://marlabernstein.wordpress.com/

Compliment Bear

Marla Bernstein and Carolyn Castanon created this snugly bear to help you through stressful times. Given a hug or a paw squeeze, it responds with a compliment or thoughtful phrase.

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Do you have way too much stress during the school week? Sometimes do you just need to squeeze something and relieve all of that pent up energy? Well then you definitely need “Chill out Carly”, the teddy bear that gets you through the most stressful times of your week.

Check out the whole project + videos here: https://marlabernstein.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/project-2/

Informal Electronics class

The Independent Study Formerly Known As Electronics

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WHAT?

A weekly hands-on seminar on practical electronics. Learn how to make thins that blink, move and make noise. No prior experience needed, but experts welcome!

WHEN?

Mondays – 3pm to whenever!

WHERE?

ATLS 113 – The BTU Lab

Who?

Abhishek Narula – PhD Student, Electronics Badass

Wayne Seltzer – MIT Electrical Engineer, Can fix ANYTHING

WHY?

Why not! It’s a free informal class on doing awesome stuff with electronics! Hope to see you there.

 

Midi Gloves by Kristof

Kristof created these gloves in the Wearables class taught in the BTU Lab. The gloves have 10 pressure sensors and flex sensors (one for each digit) that act as an interface to control the music.

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For an added bonus, another student in the class, Teddy, created a boombox jacket. Kristof plugged his computer into the jacket for wearable speakers!

Find out more on Kristof’s blog.