The Rain Stick

Cocktail stick injuries--the dangers of half a stick.

The Musical Stick

As one of the first tools used by man, the stick is simple, yet versatile. The first men could use a stick as a weapon against other nomadic barbarians, a skewer to eat meat and vegetables, a probe for investigating strange areas, a backscratcher for itching pains, or any other task that benefited man by extending his arm. Therefore, it seemed logical that this tool be our starting point for th...

Behind the hockey stick.

Michael Mann knows his students and his subject. The topic of the graduate seminar: El Niño and radiative forcing. The beer he will be serving: Corona, “because I’m going to be talking about tropical climate.” Not surprisingly, attendance is high. Mann is most famously known for the “hockey stick,” a plot of the past millennium’s temperature that shows the drastic infl uence of humans in the 20...

The Shake Stick

We present a new embedded instrument, with discussion on the challenges of developing embedded instruments, and the practice and theory of NIME evaluation and design. The Shake Stick is a Raspberry Pi-based embedded instrument using SuperCollider for granular synthesis. In our analysis and design, we explore the MINUET design framework, dimension space analysis for inter-instrument comparison, ...

Find the Blue Stick

We propose a modular, reactive controller for locating a target in a maze while maintaining sufficient battery power. We have adapted our solution of take into account the limitations of the simulation environment and the high level of noise. The behavior of our robot proved to be sensible though being by far less efficient than mappingbased solutions.