Meet TweetChime
TweetChime Live Demo from cindy wong on Vimeo. Helping people overcome long distances, TweetChime is a melodic chime that communicates people’s sentiments and transmits them into melody. So, no matter where you are, you can let your loved ones know you’re thinking of them and they can hear your sentiment in real-time in sound. By...
Final Proposal: FireChat Greeting Card
For my web development final, I knew I wanted to pursue my interests in social media, interactive design, and multimedia. I’m pretty interested in technology that helps bring people together over the web to communicate/interact. So, how can I make it fun? FireChat is an interactive video website that serves as a hub for friends...
Meet TweetChime, ITP Final Project
For my Final Project, I decided to combine my ICMW and PComp classes together and produce a single idea: Meet TweetChime. TweetChime is an interactive music chime that that will take specially coded Twitter messages people send to you and transforms them into melody where you are. What makes that so special? Whether a friend...
ICM Midterm: Fashion Forecast
So, for my midterm, I decided to expand on my original PHP application, WearCaster. It was originally a little PHP app that pulled up New York City temperature readings (from Yahoo! Weather RSS feed). Based on my temperature parameters, WearCaster would let me know what I needed to wear before I step out the door. Here’s...
ICM-Web Midterm Proposal
For my ICM Web proposal, I want to expand on my original Javascript/PHP application, Wearcaster. It’s designed to help users quickly see what outfits they should wear based on their destination weather/temperature conditions. As a South Floridian, I was clueless about how to dress for New York’s changing seasons from the hot summer to colder...
Serial Out with Arduino (Javascript Edition)
For this lab assignment, I learned how to set up an interaction between my Arduino and my computer. This is called serial communication. I hooked up a variable resistor, my pentiometer, to my breadboard. From there, I set up my USB between my computer and Arduino. Data from my pentiometer travels to the Arduino who...
Wearcaster: What Should I Wear Today?
So, for learning PHP, I decided to make a little fashion/weather mashup. Meet Wearcaster, the app that pulls up New York City temperature readings (from Yahoo! Weather RSS feed) and based on my parameters, let’s me know what I need to wear before I step out the door. Now, you may ask, Cindy, aren’t you...
Intro to Computational Media: Meet the ITP Fortune Cookie Teller
Feeling down? Need an encouraging note while you’re down in the dumps? Try the ITP Fortune Cookie Teller. Designed to test my knowledge of arrays within Javascript, my class assignment was to make something fun. Hello, positive encouragement! Who doesn’t like a free cookie?