MAKE @ Parsons

Cats and I have been “cooking” cookies this afternoon trying to decide what ingredients work, which don’t, the size of our cookies (they need to fit well inside their personalized boxes), and what name we’d like to give our little “business.”

The cookies we decided work and look best are the “Trail-Mix Cookies”
ingredients: 1/4 cup amonds,
Tsp cinnamon,
pinch sea salt,
1/4 cup walnuts,
1 cup majool dates,
2 Tbl Sp raisins,
and 2 Tbl sp sunflower seeds.

We combined almonds, cinnamon and salt in a blender, and until it was pulsed into chunks. We added the walnuts, and pulsed to make larger chunks. Then came the dates, raisins and sunflower seeds. We pulsed everything together until it was all mixed well. Then, we scoop dough in 1 1/2 Tbl Sp onto baking sheet, and flatten into cookies.
(We experimented with different ingredients but some were too moist and didn’t allow the cookie to keep it’s shape. At one point we used apples but that made the cookie too soggy… a picture of the apples is below.)

We also made the Truffle Cookies but we decided that because they’re more round, they won’t fit as comfortably into the mini boxes.

The Apple Cookies were good too but they were crumbly and required their own paper cup so again, not ideal for the boxes.

For the apples, “Pink Lady” apples cut into slices and marinated in lime juice, rosemary and Agave. These were delicious in the Apple Cookies and by themselves!

As for a name, our current idea is “Mini Raw Goodies”

Prototyping

This is for adjusting visualizer

connecting with breadboard and arduino board

Bryant found an example from http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/AnalogInput

This is Arduino code that set up some connections before we use processing code

Save and close Arduino code.

Open Processing code and test it

We had bad wires that our project didn’t work.  We created new wires.

Here is the current working concept for our Instructable:

Hopefully production of the images and video will be soon.

Instructable on:

How to make the world’s greatest solidified chicken-embryo, cheese and seasoning sandwich with a microwave:

Supplies:

1- large grade-A egg
1- smooth nonstick microwave safe bowl
1- microwave
1- Bread toasting device
1- fork
1- pack of shredded cheese
1- container of “season-all”
1- container of salt
1- container of pepper
1- apron
1- chef hat
2- slices of your favorite bread
1- roll of your favorite paper towels

Step 1:

Interface with your protective cooking uniform and adorn your apron

Step 2:

Place authoritative hair catching device on your head, making sure to confine and suppress all of your unsanitary hair follicles

Step 3:

Gently tap egg on the side of your bowl until a crack develops in the shell

Step 4:

With 2 hands break the shell open while letting the gelatinous contents of the chicken embryo fall into your microwaveable safe bowl.

Step 5:

Add 2 pinches of your favorite shredded cheese

Step 6:

Add 3 shakes of “season all”

Step 7:

Add 1 shake of salt

Step 8:

Add 1 shake of pepper

Step 9:

Using your fork engage the uncooked gelatinous chicken-embryo, cheese and seasoning mixture with several swirling motions or until properly and evenly mixed

Step 10:

Disengage fork from blended mixture

Step 11:

Place the microwave safe bowl containing your delectable mixture into the microwave and set to cook on high for approximately one minute

Step 12:

While your mixture is interfacing with the microwave separate out 2 slices of your favorite bread and gently place them inside your favorite toasting device for about 3 minutes giving them a slightly brown color, be careful not to burn the bread or the entire meal will be ruined.

Step 13:

Remove solidified cooked egg mixture from the microwave.

Step 14:

Remove toasted bread slices from the bread browning apparatus and gently place onto your favorite paper towel.

Step 15:

Using your fork, pry the solidified egg mixture out of the bowl and place atop a single piece of toast.

Step 16:

Sandwich the egg with the second piece of toast.

Step 17:

If you have followed all of the provided steps above you may now enjoy your solidified chicken-embryo, cheese and seasoning sandwich.

Since I’ve decided to do separate project from “Garret’s Kitchen” , I’ll be making “Phyllo Pastries”.

So, I’ll be doing everything by myself :

*ingredients list

*the recipe

*process (with good quality images and a video)

emre boyeri

image taken from this website

Team: Jen Cotton and Jessica Floeh

What we’re MAKEing: Unprimed canvas tote bags that are silk-screened with digitized hand-drawn illustrations

Deliverables:

• list of materials needed
• list of tools needed
• step-by-step documentation of tote-bag making (photographs, written explanation, pattern)
• link to good silk-screen tutorial (with any additional comments)
• step-by-step documentation of how to digitize hand-drawn illustrations (photographs, written explanation, download-able drawings)

Image from: http://blog.thisnext.com/storage/chapel-of-dawn-tote-bag-1.jpg

This book has great ideas for my MAKE midterm project! I bought it and I’ve been trying to decide what box might fit our cookies best
If you’re interested, it’s on Amazon for only $16.49. ::LINK::

We’ll be creating raw cakes and mini boxes.

For the cakes, Cats will be doing/documenting:
the recipe,
the list of ingredients,
the process (steps) and the final product.

For the mini boxes Kirsten will be doing/documenting:
the material,
the pattern,
the steps and the final product.

Together, we’ll be editing the photographs and formatting the overall process.

I have 2 projects that I have been meaning to do for quite some time, and eventually will be completing both, however i’m not sure which one i will do for this opportunity.

1. Moog Etherwave Theremin Custom Top

About a year and a half ago I was forced to learn how to solder when I purchased a Moog Etherwave Theremin Kit.  In terms of the theremin as a professional instrument, the Moog Etherwave is pretty much a musician’s only choice.   I was super excited to build it, and at that point being a soldering n00b, it took me quite a while to assemble.  Even so, I am really proud of the work (which in retrospect, was not very much) and one of the cool parts of it coming from a kit, was the encouragement for aesthetic customization.  Unfortunately, I got super busy (stupid grad school) and STILL haven’t gotten around to it.   You can see what mine looks like currently below (the unpainted wooden one).  My options here range from painting or whittling the current top to lasering a cool design on it.  I think though what i really want is a clear acrylic top that shows off the electronics inside.

project entails:

• designing something for the current wood top OR
• designing a schematic to lasercut the top from acrylic
• possibly creating a design to be etched on these panels (it would be 3)
• assembling the top, installing it on my theremin
• releasing all files and process online
• jamming hardcore on my ‘min

2. Light Balls! (temp title, fo sho)

This is a project I conceived of last year in Yury Gitman’s computation studio.  The concept is to create objects which users can carry around or place in one spot that em

anate light that directly reflects the volume of sound occurring around the balls.  You could place several balls around your home or room where you listen to music or just hang

out.  The balls are sensitive to amplitude of sound enough such that a talking voice would be enough to watch the balls’ glow reflect peaks in volume.  Another context could be at a concert or show where people are given the balls to walk around with or attach to their clothing.  All of a sudden the crowd becomes part of the performan

ce as the intensity of the balls glow increases and decreases with the amplitude of the music, or performance.  Both intensity of light and color would be affected by the volume of the sound directly around the ball(s).

picturing something like this...

project entails:

• finding a sweet ball to take apart (something rubbery I imagine, like a juggling ball)
• designing circuit
• writing program for microcontroller (probably an atmega168, let’s face it)
• releasing project in it’s entirety (schematic, code)

I’m picturing something like this: