Month: February 2009

  • President Obama's depiction by the Media.

    President Obama’s high threshold depiction in headlines and designs of some major networks is starting to bother me for some reason. Is there really a need to make Obama look so monotone? Why can’t anyone just use a nice image of him, like in http://www.whitehouse.gov/, why does it have to look like a stencil, graffiti […]

  • D.B. Kim Website Launch

    This is one of the sites I launched this week. D.B. Kim is a pretty popular designer. Its cool that I was able to help him with his site. check it out! The scripts and web design is simple, I focused on the presentation of his portfolio, which is pretty impressive work.

  • Initial Thesis Concepts

    Solar Rail system for a train was a concept that I wanted to develop for thesis, but after thinking about the scope and time line of the project, it became cleat that I was being to ambitious. Getting a working prototype will require a little more time and research. The basic idea was to make […]

  • Networked Pong

    On assignment for Networked Objects was to make a control system for the pong game. The Game listens for TCP sockets and uses the data from the networked connection to have a multiplayer game. We are using a WizNet Ethernet Module to make the connection to the Pong Server at ITP. The WizNet Module is […]

  • Interactive Shoe Sculpture

    I created this interactive sculpture which plays music (in this case I play ambient cricket sounds) when the potential energy shoe is transformed to kinetic energy. The force of a collision between the shoe and some wire mesh causes a switch to trigger the music to begin to play from a sound recorder/ player. The […]

  • Pianocktail Video

    The Pianocktail by Florica and Oscar from Oscar G. Torres on Vimeo.