Final Project Concept

While I was brainstorming the idea about the final project, I thought about game, sound, and kinetic sculpture. and I narrowed it down to making simple game, sound with LEGO, and developing my midterm project. 

- Developing Hydrate.me

Our midterm team luckily have got a prototyping fund from Leslie eLab so we would develop this project for the end of this semester. The things that we could develop in a way this product is as follows:

>> Add more functions : Besides hydration reminders, we can add more functions such as tracking daily water intake, measuring the weight of remaining water, etc.

>> Develop push notification on web or widget : Our 'Networked Media' class just started, so we think it could be a good idea to like this project with that web class.

>> Create website : We are thinking of buying domain for this so that we can make this more like a real-world product. 

>> Improve physical interaction side : In terms of physical computing, we're little bit worried about what can be added on a coaster since we already made it like finished product. I think hat is the hardest part to develop that object.

- Making sound with LEGO

I have been fascinated by LEGO since I was a kid, and I am really interested in music as well. I thought it could be really great if we can make sound by using LEGO in some way. I kept searching reference and I found the good site to check out; http://appcloud.warnerbros.com/lego/legomusicmaker/          

I want to make the music like the website I mentioned above, but with actual LEGOs. 

At first, place the Lego baseplate as a music mixer which has background music and people put various types of bricks randomly which are making sound in different ways like beat, percussion, piano, etc. When people pile up the blocks, not only can make the mixed sound but also it will be some structure as the following result.

Other ideas to be continued..