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♥ Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Machine

My group consists of 4 members including me. Donna, Hwee Eng and Heyun are my team members. After much planning (and arguing), we've finally decided to remove two senses which are the sight and hearing, and to enhance on them.

Here are some of the photos during the process of creating a machine:





Some of the materials that we used are: aluminium, wood, elastic band, acrylic, and rubber.


This is the first piece of our machine, the eyepiece, we called it. We wanted to remove away the sight and thus we used this so called eye piece to do it. In between the eyepiece, there are sheets of tranparencies with different patterns on it, so that a person may be totally blind or may be partially blind, and this would in fact affect how one moves. And we used acrylic for this piece by the way.


This is the vest that will be the connection to all the parts of the machine, thus making the machine a one-piece. We made this vest using the elastic band to ensure the comfort of the wearer and also to allow elasticity.




The hand gear. This is to enhance the sense of touch to substitute the lack of sight. There are strings attached to the acrylic 'nails' so that one can move the 'nail' up or down as shown in the picture. The purpose of this gear is to allow one to have a sense of the space around her, and are able to hear the echoes or sound made when the nail struck on an object or surface. To make a sound emitted clearer, we've attached a metal ball on one of the nail.


Finally the last piece, the wing, which is attached to the vest, with a string attached with it. This is to let the person control the wing so as to feel any obstruction behind one's back.

Alright, I guess that's it. We tried our best to come up with this machine though we had our clueless and helpless moments, which is most of the time. Haha. And personally to me, creating a machine is kinda hard as I'm really bad with technical and physics stuffs...but nevertheless I think its been a fun and experiencing journey for me while completing this assignment.

And last but not least, a special thanks to Donna who volunteered herself to be the model. Well, actually we were the one to coerce her, wahaha, but still, thanks Donna! She looks cute with the machine on, by the way. WAHAHAHAHA!!!

♥ Saturday, November 1, 2008

That's the way I like it photos

Here are some other photos for this assignment:














To me, I guess these photos are not that good the quality as the camera I've been using is a very low standard one, with no iso settings and everything, but i still tried to take the best that I could. This is what I felt while while doing this assignment.

HER ♥


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