Week 12: Final Implementations
This week had us pushing to finish as much as possible for soft opening. Design: We finally got all of our final props secured and installed at the ETC. This…
Week 11: Half Week, Full Progress
This week was a bit strange as we had Carnival to thank for two days off of work! That doesn’t completely stop the ever forward progression of the project, but…
Week 10: Playtest Day
Playtesting: This weekend we were able to bring in 10 playtesters to the ETC to try our experience in person and give us some feedback. Our machine still does not…
Week 9: Typing Along
Design: Within the machine we’ve planned to keep the first and final interactions located at the table that the typewriter sits on, to have everything come back around to the…
Week 8: Snail Mail
Design: After some discussion around the design, we decided that pursuing the two sided option would not work smoothly because of the loss in payoff of some of the physical…
Week 7: Halfway There
This week started with our halves presentation. We opened up the ceremonies as the first team to present and we’re pretty happy with the results! The feedback we received was…
Week 6: Return to the ETC
Design: This week we had a few questions about where we could potentially install the machine within the Grable Gallery at the museum. While there are still plans for the…
Week 5: The Bird is the Word
This week we started to take in some of the feedback and suggestions provided to us by the faculty from quarters. We’re really starting to consider how raspberry pi or…
Week 4: 1/4’s
We opened this week with 1/4s presentation to all the faculty dropping into our Zoom, getting our first sense of ETC feedback. We were pointed to a number of helpful…
Week 3: Hopping into the ARENA
This week we started by taking a second look at our pitches and trying to bring a new perspective in to our decision making process to help us narrow them…
Week 2: Rube’s No More
This week our attention was primarily focused on ideation and brainstorming for our eventual Rube Goldberg machine. We generated a long list of 100+ different short descriptions of possibilities, filtered…
Week 1: Getting into things
Hello, and welcome to a new semester! We’re ETC project team Amuseum (Amuse+Museum, get it?) and this semester we will be working with the MuseumLab at the Children’s Museum of…
Finals
Through the last week we've been preparing our machine for final pass off and finalizing our documentation for the client. This week we had our final presentations and you can…
Post Mortem
Amuseum is a client project composed of one artist, Bella Lin, one technical artist, Adelyn Jin, two programmers, Wizard Hsu and Hao Lu, and one designer, Jack McClain. The client…
Week 13: Softs
This week we had our soft opening to present our work to all of the faculty to get final feedback before we pass everything off. One of the biggest pieces of…