For this project, I revisited the visualization of my email using multiple techniques and technologies. First I 3D printed the map of my emails with 4 different colors: purple represents my friends' emails, gray job, pink studies and dark blue family. Then I used the lasser-cut to produce a box that has engraved all the names of the recipients on the top. Finally, I did a circuit made of conductive tape with four switches to illuminate separately each part of the map using LEDs. 

Lasser cutting is one of my favorite things, I love how the machine draw perfect lines and circles and you see how your project came true in just a few minutes. I made this container to make stop-motions with my iPhone. It also works as a mini TV so I make it look like a vintage TV. 

This week I explored how to use P5js (a JavaScript version of Processing) to code an animation of a girl that throws a lantern to the sky. I also program the mouse to be a yellow star that shoots many stars through the sky while you press it. 

I made a friendly monster to take care of my daughter at night. He feeds on batteries and when you put one in his mouse his eyes shine with joy. I sewed it with conductive thread that connected the battery with the tiny led lights in the eyes.

This week I made a bracelet to be 3D printed. I learned how to use rhino to generate volume from two-dimensional objects. When I tried to print the model the result was not as clean as I expected, so I am thinking in new ways to improve it. 

This week I made a tiny paper lantern with simple circuits made from copper tape and led lights. When you put the lantern on its base, it automatically turns on because the circuit gets closed. 

Turtle Art is tricky but amazing little program inspired by the LOGO programming language. You have to build sequences of blocks to move the turtle that describes an image. My image was inspired in an illustration of Osamu Sato's book "The Art of Computer Designing". 

This is my musical interpretation of a Kandinsky's composition. His paintings were interpretations of music as well so I decided to make them sing again. I also developed a curriculum for elementary students around this idea using the Understanding by Design framework. Yo can download the curriculum here

BLACKBERRY CATCHING is a scratch game about my childhood memories. During summer, I frequently went to harvest blackberries in a blue jar for my mom. But it wasn't an easy task; you had to avoid the blackberries in the bottom of the bushes because long tail rats supposedly contaminated them. You also had to be careful with the thorns that always scratched us. Besides, we were terrified of the dogs that suddenly began to bark while we were harvesting. After overcoming all those dangers, I gave my mom the harvest, and she prepared a delicious blackberry pie.

<ho ho ho> Geek Santa visited us last night *<]:{)

This is a visualization of all my emails starting in 2007 when I received my first email from my father. Doing this was like a journey in time through 10 years of my life. Revising personal emails was like going back to specific moments, everyday moments, those that we tend to forget, but that are an important part of yourself.