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...

"Gears of My childhood" reminds me of several beautiful and unforgotten moments in my childhood.  I grew up besides Sichuan University in China and my grandparents were both professors of that university. In this case, my family is closely connected with this community. So that I could get touch with many memorable history of this place. This university was called West China Union University and it was established several missionaries from US and Canada. The beautiful campus is composed of architectures combined western and eastern style. Besides, the layout of the whole campus focus on the interaction between human and nature. Among those scenarios, the one I like the most is the lotus pool. I love the singing of the frogs at summer night, as well as the smell of the lotus flowers. So I was inspired to develop this simple game in Scratch. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/248979695/ By pressing the space key, frogs will accumulate their energy to get re...

After learning about the basic steps to develop the turtle art project, I started to find one suitable topic to make my own turtle art piece. When I stand on the subway and scrolled down the photos on my phone,  I found this picture I took a few days ago when I walked along with friends at Hudson Rivers. Then I decided to create a different version of this photo to delete the city elements and add some fireworks to my art piece. When I searched on the turtle art gallery, I found a few art pieces I can borrow some elements. such as these two pieces: After analyzing their codes and elements, I was happy to adopt the boat elements and the fan-shaped object into my work. With the up-middle-down three-layered layout, I put the fireworks on the up-level of the whole piece and make boats close to the sea level. I adjusted the block codes from these two pieces including the shape the color and the position. With some experimental experience, I made this piece. ...

I chose the “dancing cup” with the color response for this assignment. Since the interaction between human and computer should be highlighted in this process, I found it may be difficult to generate the instant feedback in this process. In this case, I decided to use the tool that utilizes the blockly code so that it thoughts could be easily applied to the project. Then I found Cospace and use it to create an interactive dancing cup scenery. At first, I chose a dusky room environment. In the second place, I selected “cup” from the object list in the “library” of the Cospace.   After learning some basic skills to organize the block code on Cospace,   I set an action to turn the cup clockwise to let it dance when the user clicks the cup. Meanwhile, the cup would change color and become larger. Here is the link of this project. https://cospac.es/8jsK I really appreciate the idea incorporated in the article”All I need to know about creative thinking I learne...

For 2042 Personally Speaking, the scenario “Trust yourself” is most viable in 2042 in the Facer & Sandford (2010) reading. It predicts a highly individualized world where people can develop their lifelong personalized education system composed of components chosen from the standardized provision. In my viewpoint, the personalized product can be viewed as a symbol of development in highly commercialized society. In the post-industrialization era, people start to get tired of standardized products and seek for more specific service. As the cost of personalized decreases, especially the fixed costs since most of the personalized studying plans can be achieved through the Internet in present time, more education firms enter in this market. This situation would avail us of lowering price of the individualized education system. For instance, in the past, only members of upper class have the privilege to hire several tutors to take care of every aspect of their studying. However,...