1 November 2015

(Hand)work in progress: day 2

On Friday I built the base of the wheel. It took me the whole day, but in the, just 10 minutes before the 3D workshop closing time I screwed in the last bolt which completed the base. The most difficult part has been surely cutting the aluminum pipes precisely and of the right measure, which by the way still has…
29 October 2015

(Hand)work in progress: day 1

Today, at only 6 days from the Final Postgraduate Show I started building the wheel. I had to wait for the wood to be cut with the Waterjet, but most of all I couldn’t really start the construction before, the complete wheel would have been too big to be stored anywhere for a long period. The first steps have been…
10 October 2015

App development

At the very bottom of the app are three hall effect sensors and a magnet stuck on the wheel. From this connection it’s possible to establish when and how often a rotation happens, and so the speed of the user running/walking on the wheel. The mechanism is very simple: a magnet gives an input each time that passes by a…
8 October 2015

Renders

Here are two renders representing the complete structure of the wheel with the various connections. The next challenge is to actually build it, I wish I could just 3D print this……
2 October 2015

Play vs Game

An interesting article Andrzej Marczewki explains the difference between play and game and therefore between playfulness and gamification. He summarises his reasoning with some bullet points: – Play is free form and has no extrinsically imposed goals. It is done for fun or joy. – Games add defined goals and rules to play (such as challenges). – Toys are objects…
27 September 2015

Calculations

FINAL, CORRECT CALCULATIONS: People need to enter their weight to calculate the right amount of calories. Calories burned = (speed * time) * (1,05 * time) * 60 [average person weight] Energy produced = time [in seconds] * 0.0008 [3W energy produced by the dynamo, divided in seconds]   PREVIOUS CALCULATION ATTEMPTS, CONFUSION AND NUMBERS: Despite I graduated from a …
22 September 2015

Full bibliography

Here it’s a list of the full bibliography on which I built my research for the final dissertation. BOOKS: – BERMAN, D. B. (2009) Do Good Design, How Designers Can Change The World, Barkeley CA: AIGA Press / New Riders cooperation – BOGOST, I. (2007) Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames, Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press – CIALDINI, R.…
20 September 2015

Energy conversion

I bought a 12″ bicycle 😀 As I mentioned in a previous post, the energy conversion from kinetic to electric to charge the phone, occurs thanks to a small bicycle wheel put in contact with the big hamster wheel. The smaller the bike wheel, the more energy would have been generated, so I opted for a 12” kids bike wheel,…

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