The Art of Conversation is a drawing tool that takes in the voices from a conversation and converts them into sound waves to create a mesmerizing piece of art. This artwork is used to create a lasting representation of a conversation. Visualization of sound has been an interest to artists, musicians, and engineers for years; Even Issac Newton explored the intersection between music and color theory in the early 1700s. The connection between two people is beautiful and should be reflected by beautiful art. 

This is a listening robot that creates art from just about any voice it hears. Conversations, while often memorable, are fleeting. A person’s voice is powerful, and the Eaves-draw-per takes the power of this voice by creating a visual representation of the conversation. The Eaves-draw-per can be used by all. Anyone who wants to remember a conversation forever can use the robot to create a lasting and unique piece of art. 

The Art of Conversation uses a built-in microphone to listen to the surrounding voices in the room. It reads the decibels from the conversation, and a servo recreates the sound waves on the paper. The design is loosely based on a record player, shown through the spinning paper. This process creates a near spiral art piece, representing the importance and beauty of conversation.  

Weather Cat is an AI generated graphic that conveys the weather in a cute and concise manner. Most people check the weather everyday, wether it's by news, app, or even radio. It is an important tool for everyone. Weather Cat provides an alternative to these metric driven methods of conveying the weather, a more palatable approach. Instead of just providing data, Weather Cat conveys the feeling of the weather, so the user can start their day off with a cute pick-me-up instead of a wall of numbers. The picture frame like device pulls weather data and pictures of cats from the web, and using a pre-trained AI Model it combines them. The images it generates contain colors and shapes that convey data points like temperature, rain, cloud cover, and wind. Although not as accurate as metrics, the feeling of the weather is more than sufficient to judge how to dress. This means one less number to remember, and a clearer headspace.

The StoryBox is an image processing program that preserves moments through sound. In a world full of visual snapshots of life, rarely are those moments simultaneously captured in sound. The StoryBox software allows images throughout time to be captured and composed into a series of auditory experiences.

Towns, cities, and landscapes are constantly evolving. With the threat of climate change transforming and destroying the earth's natural beauty, destruction from wars, and persistent new development, an image alone can not preserve or capture the full experience of a place before it disappears. The StoryBox captures archived images of Palestine pre-colonization. As more and more Palestinian land is annexed, it is important to create multiple different preserved representations of  its beautiful landscape. The natural scenery and towns in pre-colonized Palestine are processed and programmed to create an auditory interpretation of the images from this land's history. By analyzing the colors, depth, and outlined shapes of the images, the software is then able to assign notes and compose a sound.

The goal of Anonymity in Protesting is to protect protestors' anonymity and privacy by the disguise of one's face to avoid facial recognition tracking. Anonymity is important because protest and the exercise of 1st amendment rights should not be criminalized. Throughout protests that occurred this summer, arrests were made after the protest ended, rather than during the protest. This is issue concerns race and safety because BIPOC are disproportionally arrested at protests and are the population that faces the most police violence. Anonymity and privacy is a right that everyone should be entitled to during potentially dangerous public assembly. This project is designed for protesters who are be vulnerable if recognized on protest footage. These protestors are usually adults and teenagers, especially BIPOC. The goal of the project is to create a website or app that can scan a face and tell the user if they are recognizable and then show them how they can change their face to remain ambiguous. Since DIY is a large part of the design, the app relies on household materials such as paint, stick on gems, and other materials that can be found in arts and crafts stores.

Anonymity In Protesting is a facial obscuration application aiming to help protestors stay safe and anonymous so they are able to keep protesting injustices without the fear of potential legal consequences. This app looks at a person’s face and recommends different strategies for concealing their identity by adding highlights and shadows to faces, along with different shapes, hoping to confuse facial recognition software. This app is targeted towards all protesters, with a specific focus on black and indigenous protesters.

The lack of anonymity in protesting, followed by persecution after the fact, has become increasingly common since the Ferguson protests in 2014. The AiP app uses facial recognition software similar to what is used by organizations aiming to find protesters, but instead of looking to identify them, it shows personalized ways to avoid detection. This aims to create a space where protesting injustices is a protected activity.

Link to presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c4D_ucNDzVleGZCIKFS_FKLTLUgSu066/view?usp=sharing

The StoryBox is an image processing program that preserves moments through sound. In a world full of visual snapshots of life, rarely are those moments simultaneously captured through music. The StoryBox software allows images throughout time to be captured and composed into a series of auditory experiences. 

Towns, cities, and landscapes are constantly evolving. With the threat of climate change transforming and destroying the earth's natural beauties, war destruction, and new development, an image alone can not preserve or capture the full experience of a place before it disappears. For this project, the StoryBox captures archived images of Palestine pre-colonization. As more and more land is annexed, it is important to create multiple different preserved representations of the beautiful landscape. The natural scenery and towns were then processed and programmed to create an auditory interpretation of the image. By analyzing the colors, depth, and outlined shapes of the images, the software was then able to assign notes and compose a sound. 

Like fingerprints, no two brains are exactly alike. The uniqueness of the human experience with music comes from the connection to neurology and emotion. When a person listens to music, several parts of the brain activate and react. This design will capture the neurological response to music by turning it into a unique piece of visual art. 

 A subject will use an EEG while listening to a song of their choice. Their response to the music will be recorded and processed through a program that will transcribe it to code. The code will then transferred to an Arduino-powered robot which will replicate it on paper. Sponges saturated in water with watercolor paint will be placed into compartments with a simple press inside. Each compartment corresponds to a different response in the brain that occurs while listening to a song. When the robot reads this data from the program, the press engages accordingly, causing the color to deploy onto paper.

    As both the art and technology worlds are always evolving and changing, why not merge the two for a unique exploration and experience?

How to setup the NuVu Cloud

All users can use NuVu's cloud service to share files for lasercutting and between collaborators. There are two options for accessing NextCloud, on the Web or through a client. Using the desktop client is preferable, but if you have issues, the web client works as well.

Web Client

1. Navigate to https://nextcloud.nuvustudio.com
2. Use your login info for nuvustudio.com (your email and your NuVu password)
3. Create a new folder called "laser_your name" under "Nextcloud"
   
4.  Click on the share iconfor the folder, choose "share with Nextcloud" and share it with the user name provided by your Coach.
   • If you are at NuVu Cambridge, share with "lasercutter". 
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5. That will create a copy of your laser cutter folder in the laser cutter computer.