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  • Paper Switches

    Series of paper switches I designed for the second part of the e-luminated paper circuits workshop at SFCB. I used the Silhouette to pre-cut paper samples that students could use in the workshop to learn about some of the possibilities.The sampler as constructed by one of the class participants Spin switch Tab switch Push Switch…

  • e-luminated books part 2

    This weekend we ran part 2 of the e-luminated books workshop at San Francisco Center for the book. This part was focused on interactivity -embedding sensors and switches into books, as wells as designing programs for the Attiny85. It was a lot of fun and will be happening again in June! If you haven’t taken…

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    Maker Ed Maker Corps

    Maker Ed is a non-profit based in the Bay Area. They are a sister company of Maker Media (Make Magazine, Maker Faire) and work to support making in schools. I recently applied for Maker Ed’s spring teacher training and teaching position called “Maker Corps”, and got selected! We, the “Maker Corps Members”, spend 6 weeks…

  • Shadowy tunnel(ish)

    After tinkering with *f l a t* images I realize I am actually barking up the wrong tree, or at least, the wrong side of the tree. My aim is to create a hand-held animated shadow puppet theatre, and this needs to have depth as well as interaction. So, here is my next iteration in…

  • Shadowy pages

    I’m still barking up the shadowy-animated-book tree. Here are some recent experiments, which I am developing when I get the chance. The idea is to create a handheld animated shadow puppet theatre. I’d been experimenting with pop-up mechanisms, and recently tried this animation technique. Below is an animated gif of the page in action. Sorry about…

  • Some sketches with my sister

    A very nice time was had in Madrid with my sister. We ate in many bars and sat in a nice park and sewed blossom on a tree on a sunny spring day.

  • Pop-up-delux-extravaganza-eat-your-heart-out.

    Shortly, these little beauts, along with about 20 more, will be stitched into a pop-up-reference book (categorised into 4 types of folds: counter, parallel, V, and shape). I’ll use them to make more wonderful pop-up-mini-theatre-in-your-hands books. If you have seen any of my usual messy-wonky-splodgy-could-have been-made-by-a-five-year-old style of work, you will understand that being so…

  • Dibujo Madrid

    Every Tuesday for the past 3 years a group of artists have been curating Dibujo Madrid, an awesome performance-illustration platform in Lavapies, Madrid. The event is simple, take a life drawing class, and instead of drawing still models in the nod, draw performance artists making a weird and wonderful show for 2 hours. It’s based…

  • Rusty Squid Workshop

    I have been intrigued, fascinated, and excited by the work of local interactive tech group “RustySquid“. The Squids use digital technology to create rather marvellous responsive puppetry  -they create work that responds to its environment (an example of this is a puppet whose heart beats faster when it gets closer to a human). The Squids set up…

  • The Sketchbook Project

    I have decided to take part in The Sketchbook Project this year. I think it’ll be fun, and really interesting to see what kind of drawings emerge. This weekend I re-bound the lovely little sketchbook with black, blue and orange card. Now I’m ready to go. vroom vroom! (thanks mum for modeling the book for…