Physical Projects

Explore the world with OVO: your curious friend who turns photography into a fun treasure hunt!

Skills: Programming, CAD - 3D design, Animation

MIT course: 4.031, Design Objects and Interactions. Partner project.

OVO is a robotic friend and camera designed for children to explore their surroundings. OVO prompts the user with a word (tree, bicycle, dog, cat, ...) that you must then find and take a picture by showing it to OVO. This will act as having 'fed' OVO and will have a little animation appear to indicate happiness. 

My partner and I created a CAD design, that we then 3D printed. We used Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and an LED screen to show hand-drawn animations. YOLO (You Only Look Once), a real-time object detection program, was used to interact with the camera to make the functionality of finding an object actually useful.

The CyanoBag is a folding, portable camera that aims to create cyanotype landscapes.

Skills: CAD, Sewing, Design

MIT course: 4.031, Design Objects and Interactions. Partner project.

What if your camera bag was a camera and a bag? The CyanoBag is a foldable and portable cyanotype camera that also acts as a bag and can be used to transport your cyanotype paper and other materials. The CyanoBag can be propped up anywhere and, over the course of many daylight hours, will create a cyanotype landscape.

This project was first 3-D designed and then sewn on a sewing machine. The black and red aspects were picked as an homage to vintage cameras. We were influenced by vintage cameras, bellows, and camera bags.

Clay sculpture, Papier-mâché 

Wellesley Course: Intro to 3D Design

An exploration of organic forms, through sculpting with clay, spray-painting hot glue "wireframes", and papier-mâché.