An altar for our small stories.

In Our Own Words is about the stories that make us who we are, and finding ways of sharing them. Part altar and part confessional, it was…

Test, test, test

Altar V2 After I figured out the direction of my altar with my cardboard prototype, I started two new avenues of prototyping: functionality…

A proof of concept

Class Feedback Having a talking altar feels simultaneously comforting and cold. Having this live on a Raspberry Pi (versus a full laptop, or…

In which things change, again.

Welcome back, everyone. We’re in the swing of the new semester, and things have been progressing. Prototypes V1 Over the break I took the…

Attention is a very powerful thing. What do we pay attention to? How do we pay attention to it? Does our attention change the nature of that…

What is a prototype? A prototype is something that answers a question, tests something out. ~ Pedro G. C. de Oliveira This week I did a few…

The beginning of a pipeline and collecting thoughts

Things I did this week for thesis: Set up an interviewing pipeline for folks living outside their parental/heritage culture, sent out a call…