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Tuesday, 24 May 2011


This is our final design that Our 3D designer created which who we named Matt Seatter to finalise our design on CAD. We came up with this idea because we wanted the structure to be like a computer stand that can hold a computer and speakers at the same time. We have created this to have a personal fitted laptop space and also have a multiple space added on the top of the design that this in a physical term will balance the machine in proportion to having the bowl pressed to the ground. Around the edge of the lower part of the machine will have rubber seals along side with the bowl to restrict the amount of the unnecessary sound that this will play an effect to the programming side of this design. The idea that we have come across in this assignment is to manipulate sound by having this bowl detect sound and be programmed to control and create a completely different connection of sounds as to when this machine hears a certain tone of noise whether it is a higher frequency ratio or lower frequency ratio. This design initially came from the idea of having a straight square purchasing in a flush and square angle. Then we altered the design to then have this shaped into a hour glass type structure just to give the design a more contrasting and eye catching effect to the audience. Through out the process of creating and finalising everything and approving everything. we came cross some struggling points. We couldn't figure out a positioning of putting the laptop connected to the top of the table stand ( Our Design) We thought of some ways of having the laptop been able to just have the screen ( Monitor) just visible rather than just having the entire laptop visible. We then came up with the idea of cutting a slot on the outside of the design to the have the screen fully pushed down to its lowest angle and having the laptop angled at 45 degrees to position the laptop at the angle we need it to be in. 

Thursday, 19 May 2011



We started off by conducting a the portotype of the tube connected to the bowl to test and operate how this machine will operate.
This is the our final concept design that we will be using in this project. We have encounter in some areas of this design were we had difficulty in finding the best position for the speakers and for the laptop. We structured the laptop design in the this design. We struggled to integrate the the laptop into the construction piece. We have the bowl situated in the lowest part of the construction item. reason being this is so that it can pick up all the vibrating sounds in the city.

Tuesday, 17 May 2011


In our group discussions.....we thought of a idea to use a stethoscope to detect certain sounds that are emitted    on queen street. We came up with the idea of using this instrument to listen for peoples walking steps. This will trigger off the instrument to then produce noises on the computer. For ever sound that it hears it will produce sounds (music) on the computer. If the Stethoscope detects a foot sound from a further distance, than the computer will be programmed to the function a soft music type sound that will act as a representation of that particular sound and the same for if the device connects with louder sounds, it will then play a more louder type music file that this will act as a representation of a louder foot step. The image illustrated is the type of machine development that we will be using. Similar design but will be altered to fit a computer laptop onto the device. reason being this is because we need to connect stereo speakers to this to function the sound. The Laptop will be fitted on the top of the device. To hold this, there will be a tripod fitted system that this will allow the laptop to fit onto the top of all the materials and microphone (Stethoscope)

Monday, 16 May 2011


I have taken photos of areas where I can install and fit a camera system to the either the top of a pole or on top of the traffic lights. I have thought of reasonable places of where to put the camera into. I will create and build a machine that will hold and fit the camera to the board or to the pole. this camera will be hidden away from people so that it cant be spotted or seen for any angle. If people do see it then our group came up with the idea of programming the camera to detect the amount of people who spot and look at the object (camera above). The main idea is to connect the computer to the camera with either using Hi-Fi connection or using a wireless usb that has a 10 circumference range. The idea is to have this camera detect colours in town (in the intersection where people cross) it will detect the coloured shirts that people ware and produce data of how fast they would be travelling 

Sunday, 8 May 2011


Conceptual statement
Reflecting on the ideas and issues raised by this project.
I came up with the idea of using a wrist band that will connect wires strings to the fingers to trigger the programme to then process through from my wrist band design. With all the different concepts that I was contemplating on having different designs added to the wrist band. I viewed the instructables website to give me a brief idea of what to actually do. I found it difficult to come up with an easy design to use.  I found this assessment to be rather interesting. Reflecting over all the aspects and progression in being committed to designing and structuring my T – shirt design. This assignment was very interesting. I found it in the start to be very hard and difficult to overcome my final idea and mostly what to actually do. In developing the t-short, I found it rather manage with connecting and soldering all the wires together. This assignment gave me so many issues especially with being able to programme Max to function my idea. The main idea for my design was to have buttons connected to each side of the dress shirt one connected to the positive and the other to the negative to then process the machine to function. Each time the shirts buttons are connected, this will trigger the Button to then function the Max programme to make movement to video’s that im using. 






This image explains the whole affect of the entire shirt that has been designed to have several buttons that will the trigger the videos that i have programmed the button detected. I have used a wireless key board to make life a bit more easier rather than have a key board connected into the computer with a wire hanging out. I Had an issue with the design because my USB stick that operates my keyboard had failed. I tried to fix the issue by coming up with the idea of soldering a cord to the key board, The situation from this was that the key board had only two connections for the battery pack so i had no way to connect the cord to the key board.  

 This image illustrates the idea of how the button is presented and the materials I used to construct this idea Between each button, I used a hot glue gun to stick the tin foil to the t-shirt. The design was to have two buttons connected to each individual side of the t-shirt to conduct and trigger the key on the Max program. Every time i touch the the buttons together. The button will then set the program to trigger the videos. I have crated the videos to overlap each other to explain the main idea of innocence and flash backs. I used three different videos of gangster people that reflects the idea of them having no part in society which this is the reason why i used them. This acts as a representation of Heist.