Water Color on Wood
- Post By: Jamie
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- Category: Fall 2016, Intro to Fabrication
Before this class, I had used the laser cutter on numerous occasions for prototyping with cardboard, engraving acrylic and cutting holes in housing for circuitry. I spent a lot of time this summer making physical things for the first time […]
Read MoreUnderstanding Netflix and Amazon Under the Hood
- Post By: Jamie
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- Category: Fall 2016, Machine Learning
How does coding work to place recommendations to potential customers? How does Netflix know whether or not they should suggest you a movie? How does Amazon recommend similar products based on users similar to you? This is the focus of […]
Read MoreMightier than the Miter Saw
- Post By: Jamie
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- Category: Fall 2016, Intro to Fabrication
I was determined to conquer my fear of the saw this week. The assignment was making multiples and this seemed like the perfect one for wood-working. My first thought was to make a series of wooden coasters and use the […]
Read MoreThe Martian — a minimalist film poster
- Post By: Jamie
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- Category: Fall 2016, Programming Design Systems
The assignment this week was to create a minimalist movie poster for The Martian using only simple shapes — rectangle, ellipse, triangle and lines — AND keep it limited to black and white. Here is the final poster: The assignment […]
Read MoreEncode Me
- Post By: Jamie
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- Category: Fall 2016, Machine Learning
As mind blowing as reading about vectors and matrices are, the academic paper, Mechanical Intelligence, by Alan Turing was the most incredible. To think he was brilliant enough to not only understand the mathematics, but also to predict so many […]
Read MoreFlower Power Circa 1988
- Post By: Jamie
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- Category: Fall 2016, Intro to Fabrication
Since I made a cute little key light last year in physical computing, I felt a traditional flashlight was a little too close to my previous work so I wanted to go in a different direction. Let’s imagine the idea […]
Read MoreAdventures with a Sugar Cone
- Post By: Jamie
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- Category: Fall 2016, Programming Design Systems
Our assignment was to draw an ice cream cone using code where we could only draw one ellipse, one triangle and one rectangle AND we were limited to using only black and white. Although I believe my beautiful sugar […]
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