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Project New Media: TREAT

GROUP: Carly Cornish, Jake Perry, Nate Reid, and Sara Taylor The problem: Humans have had animal companions for thousands of years. Today still pets are a staple in family households. Many animals, however, are still facing abuse. Shelters and other animal charities are doing the best they can to help these abandoned animals and get […]

Project Tech Ban: Banning Smart Kitchen Appliances

Thoughts on the Necessity of Smart Appliances Introduction In today’s digital world, new technologies are being created and released at a rate faster than many people can consume. In many ways, major companies are moving towards our technologies becoming “smart”. A lot of technologies like laptops, cellphones, speakers, televisions, and video game consoles have been […]

Project Redesign: YouTube

Identifying the Problem One issue I would like to tackle in the world is the over-abundance of what I will call recommendation AI; specifically, artificial intelligence technologies used by Facebook, Google, and Twitter that are used to make suggestions on content/media for users to view. This technology has a tendency to be harmful because a […]

Audio Synthesizer and Visualizer

For my final in New Media 102, I made an audio synthesizer and visualizer by combining Max MSP and Processing. It was quite an ambitious project but was very satisfied with the result. This was my first big New Media project and worked to get it where I wanted it. I was really sick when […]

Audio

Electronic Music Composition Flute Tune Atmosphere (Final Composition) Audio Synthesizer and Visualizer

Video

Community Garden GMA Segment Community Garden Timelapse UMF Community Garden Fundraiser Video Hockey Story Finding A Spot Autobiographical Film

LOCKBOX

LOCKBOX is a puzzle box. The goal is for the user to figure out the button path they must take in order to enter the correct password. Then the box opens for a surprise! The trick to this box, however, is that the button paths change after each successful box open. I have coded a […]

BUG

BUG is a night-time companion light. BUG only turns on in the dark, the user can turn BUG on by putting BUG in a dark area.  When BUG is on, the user can touch the silver strip along BUG’s back and switch BUG’s light between 3 colors (red, green, and blue). The spots on BUG […]