Muyun Yang (Stella)

This week, thread is used as the conductor and we are supposed to employ this new tool in our creative design.  I am always fond of embroidery, so I tried to incorporate this new thread into my piece. I used the needle and the thread to create a simple lotus with leaf and pin the LED in the nectar of the lotus to enlighten the whole piece. In class,  I have learned the way to use switch to control the LED of this lotus by using several conductor and button. Here is the complete work!  

This time, I tried to use the soft circuit to create my Halloween greeting card.  I decided to include a pumpkin in my greeting card with dark blue night background. I planned to set the two light bulbs on the "eye" of the pumpkin. I followed the instructions on the class to create it. But later I found that the button battery cannot afford two little light bulbs on the circuit. So I just changed my design and created two separate circuits. Later, I found the dark blue paper I brought back from Thingspace are too thick for the light bulbs to exposure its light. So I choose a letter size paper and paint it with blue color to finish my greeting card. Here is the finished version.

The idea of invention literacy is quite impressive for me, especially the saying"If it can be created by a human, then it can be recreated by you, me, and all of us. But only if we all believe in ourselves as inventors (and re-inventors)."( Jay Silver, Invention literacy) Inspired by the idea that every human-created staff can be recreated by me and the class instruction, I start to think about use Makey Makey to recreate my favorite instrument- Guzheng. I have played it for a few years and I still play it to relieve my stress recently. So I decided to choose it as my recreated object. Firstly, I recorded the sound of Guzheng on my iphone and wrote a simple script on Scractch to use those sounds. The special thing for Guzheng is that, it mainly have 5 strings （12356）for one scale and you need to press the string to get 4 and 7. So I decided to choose the simplest version of the piece "Jasmine". As for the objects to connect to my laptop, Yanfang has proposed m...