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Poetic Hardware Online.

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Our new online class Poetic Hardware taught at SFPC (School For Poetic Computation) is live for applicants. We've been teaching an IRL version of this class for the past 3 semesters and have been working for the past couple months on modifying our curriculum for online teaching.

This week on #CWTIO we're going to chat with Artist, Educator, Activist, SFPC founder and wonderful human Taeyoon Choi about how we're revamping the Hardware curriculum for remote learning, but also thinking about how to foster the same type of community and supportive learning environment we have when we get to be in person.

In Poetic Hardware we learn computational hardware as a way to engage with the physical world and broaden our creative practices. This 10-week online curriculum is supported by a custom electronics learning kit intended for beginners to learn about analog + digital electronics, a programmable micro-controller, sensors and mechanisms through a lens of legibility and thoughtful exploration.

Read more about Poetic Hardware + Apply

And if you have questions, reach out or tune into our IG live this coming week.

Darkball.

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Our friend Jonathan Bobrow (who appeared on last weeks #CWTIO) is nailing his 2nd Kickstarter for Blinks, the worlds first smart, tabletop game system. This time with 6 new games, and one of them designed by yours truly (Che-Wei). The game is called darkball, and it's a modified version of an iOS timing game he built for his Media Lab thesis. It's kind of like 1D pong. It's really fun and easy to play. There are many other games with a wide range of game styles also available on Blinks. Check them out!

Support Blinks on Kickstarter

Living Sounds.

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This brings us so much joy.

Living Sounds is a live mix of sounds from dozens of handmade microphones located throughout a restored wetland called Tidmarsh in Plymouth, MA. This is a project from the Responsive Environments group at MIT Media Lab and slow immediate. Tidmarsh used to be a cranberry farm, and has been undergoing restoration for the past 8 years.

We visited Tidmarsh with friends who were working on the project back in 2013 and it's wonderful to see this as something that has come out of the restoration project, especially right now. Visit the site and just soak in the sounds. It will transport you.

enjoy :)