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Project Identification

Focus Skills:

• 3D modeling
• Client integration
• Arduino
• Conceptual framing
• Physical building
• API tracking

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Project Identification

Focus Skills:

• 3D modeling
• Client integration
• Arduino
• Conceptual framing
• Physical building
• API tracking

Light Drift - Howeler & Yoon

Nutrition Tracking App (Fitbit): The goal of this app is to make you more aware of what you consume and the amount you consume. 

SelfieCity:

This computer program can track all of the selfies taken in these cities, determine the assumed gender, assumed age, and assumed mood. More to the point, it displays a lot of information, in the media genre, in a clean, informative, way.

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Re-Contextualizing

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Re-Contextualizing

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Precedents

Nutrition Tracking App (Fitbit): The goal of this app is to make you more aware of what you consume and the amount you consume. 

SelfieCity:

This computer program can track all of the selfies taken in these cities, determine the assumed gender, assumed age, and assumed mood. More to the point, it displays a lot of information, in the media genre, in a clean, informative, way.

FITBIT - NUTRITION TRACKING

SELFICITY

Thesis Statement

Floating Balance is a product designed to help individuals on a diet keep track of what they have eaten. Specifically, Floating Balance helps keep track of the servings of food each day, because for many people tracking things like carbs is too challenging. It uses a series of floating ping pong balls to display the data of the servings you have eaten in a graph-like way.

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Refining Project: Developing Data

Most of our dietary health data came from The USDA, more specifically, Myplate.gov. We were researching a way to measure food consumption in a fairly accurate manner but also in metrics that were easy to understand and track.

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Refining Project: Creating a Client

Boe is a relatively healthy 79 year old and strives to live that way for many more years to come. However, there is one thing about his eating habits he wants to fix, his love for oysters. It's not necessarily his love for oysters that's the problem, but he is lacking other parts of the food group. Consuming oysters at a rate of 48 ounces per week, Boe lacks the vital dairy he needs as milk, yogurt and cheese goes poorly with any kind of seafood. He often lacks vitamins A and C as he prefers dark green vegetables over more red vegetables. Of course, supplements are provided, but as Boe gets older, he doesn't want to take the risk of the choking hazard. He gets plenty of grains through hush puppies, and garlic bread, but probably needs to cut down on the wine and tartar sauce. With our product, Boe hopes to keep track of his consumption better and hold himself more accountable when he eats that 8th serving of oysters mid way through the week.

Use Case

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Refining Project: Integrating Feedback

Components to Integrate:

• Coin Input System
• Timeline displaying progress
• Playful aspect
• Interactable Feature
• Organic Shape
• Obtrusiveness
• Expel Negativity

• How does a user interact with our object in a fun and playful way that's different than a digital interface
• Encourage long term use
• Less about staying up, maybe come up, and come down.
• How can you get someone to turn our product on more often?

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Refining Project: Secondary Sketching

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Component 1: Fan Design

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• Number of Blades
• Angle
• Backward Curve
• Real life examples
• Air Flow

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Component 2: Motor Holder

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Component 3: Tubing

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Component 4: Input Design

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Component 5: Ping Pong Balls

Playful, Organic, Colorful

Final Iteration: Combining Components

Motorshield

12V motor

Arduino

Light Sensor

Button

LED

Power Supply

Technical Diagram

Tubing (Acrylic)

Motor Holder (PLA)

Stilts (Wood)

Base Plating (Wood)

Visual Display (Ping Pong Ball)

Fan (PLA)

Render

Final Photos

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Our product uses a simple sliding mechanism to expand and contract the board. With this mechanism, we can shorten the longboard from a length of 44 inches down to a length of 12 inches. Once it slides into it's 12 inch form it can then fold in half and fit in your backpack.

PROJECT STATEMENT

evocative image

Swan Song is a project exploring how sound travels through objects. Current analog reverb systems are quite limited in their interactivity and can be confusing to new users. The hands-on method helps people understand the concept of sound traveling through objects and how you can modify it. It also provides a great deal of potential for experimental music-making due to the type of small-room sound it produces.

precedent research

Bagpipes work by blowing into an air bladder, leading into a series of tubes that can be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLy5Ypuw2p4

In the video linked below, a man made a bagpipe using an inflatable pool floaty. We realized we could take a similar approach by using something that was already made to trap air.

concept sketches

booth pics

Microphone

Speaker

use video

Project Statement

Phobia Fighter is a 2D roguelike set in the psyches of those suffering from complex phobias. The user plays as a hunter tasked with finding and expelling the symptoms of these complex phobias. Those that suffer from complex phobias can have their lives controlled and suffocated by symptoms such as paranoia, depression, and anxiety. Through artwork and level design informed by accounts of those affected, Phobia Fighter helps the player build empathy and better understand the effects of chronic phobias.

Precedents

Conceptual:

The Magnus Archives

Technical:

Hyper Light Drifter

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Sketches

Storyboard

Gameplay Loop

Machine Learning API

Technical View

Playtesting

Player Feedback

• Adding invincibility frames to the dash.
• Reduce dash speed
• Decrease amount of item pickups

Level Sample

Preliminary Research

Links

• https://www.amazon.com/Condition-Conditions-Accessories-Reference-Miniatures/dp/B082VCC3SR
• https://newbiedm.com/2017/08/31/paper-minis/
• https://dungeonvault.com/how-do-i-manage-large-dnd-groups-ten-tips-for-dungeon-masters/

Thesis Statement

We hope to facilitate playing DnD in larger groups. DnD is a game optimized for small groups of players, when these groups increase in size, gameplay can become tedious and chaotic. The current size of NuVu’s DnD club means that simple tasks like visiting a merchant can take an hour. This means less time for fun adventures and stories. We also hope to make DnD campaigns less intimidating for new players. Our project will streamline gameplay by creating physical objects to represent spells, shops, and character sheets. 

Precedent Research

Dice Towers

Dice towers are a tool to show fairness when rolling. Dice towers are also commonly stylized to fit the mood of the campaign. Dice towers are a very good example of a visually well implemented tool.

Status Effect Rings

Status effect rings are a visual representation of effects. Keeping track of effects is generally very confusing and tedious. With effect rings you just place one at the base of whatever mini that is receiving the effect. These are a good example of a product designed to simplify combat.

Well Designed Shop Systems

Shop systems in most video games will display items that you can purchase, their properties and their prices. Buying items at a shop in DnD takes a long time because the DM often reads the items and their proprieties out loud to the players.

Mood Board

saying something here write what wil be talked about in this text box

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early sketches/ early brainstorming/ playtesting

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screenshots of early card sketching and rules document

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use diagrams - briefly explain rules - lalita will add

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use diagrams - briefly explain rules - lalita will add

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use diagrams - briefly explain rules - lalita will add

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photos of mini hive board prototypes and

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Thesis

Drone Dynamics uses data from real drones to analyze and simulate drone flights to offer improvements for pilots by using patterns from flights and adding them to Cinema 4D.

Data visualization

Flight Simulation

How we would integrate the flight data into a drone animation

• Wind Speed

• Propeller speed

• Model of the park



• Making the animation accurate to the video

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Public Transportation: Return Trip is a continuation of Public Transportation, a visual novel-style game about city budgeting around public transport. The game focuses on topics like repairs versus developments and public opinions.

narrative storyboard

paper prototypes

old

new

Project Statement

Meme Chess is a modernized ceramic chess set that replaces the chess hierarchy with memes. The design philosophy of this project is to embody the chaos of the internet and current generation's mentality of turning everything into a meme and to make the role or significance of the chess pieces match the current day and age.

Precedents

Chess

A classic game that emerged around 1200-1400 and is still widely played to this day.

Memes

A cultural concept that allows one to easily portray an emotion or opinion through the use of an image or caption.

Sketches

Sculpts

Slip Casting Process

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Diagram

Final Pieces & Rule Changes

Pawn

Pawns can't be taken by rooks or other pawns. This is to make the feel more like walls and to counter the Rook.

Simple design

Rook

Rooks can move through any number of pieces and take them. However if there is a pawn they must stop before "hitting" it.

Strength

Bishop

Bishops can take their own pieces and then take one of the same pieces that the opponent controls. Cannot take their own king.

Balance, Belief

Knight

Knights can move to any tile of the opposite color that they are currently on in a 5x5 area around them.

Surprise

Queen

Queens can "bounce" off the side of the board or other pieces.

Classic

King

If the king takes a piece it can move again in the same turn, this is allowed to chain together.

Superiority