{"id":2155,"date":"2010-03-24T13:30:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2010-03-27T05:19:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T09:19:50","slug":"finding-ada-2010-angela-sheehan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/2155","title":{"rendered":"Finding Ada 2010 &#8211; Angela Sheehan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first met Angela at a New Hampshire Media Makers meetup back in <a href=\"http:\/\/nhmediamakers.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/16\/next-meet-up-sunday-august-9th-10am\/\">August 2009<\/a>. During her three minute \u2018here\u2019s what I\u2019m up to\u2019 presentation she spoke of her interest in wearable tech: fabric\/electronic mashups. I\u2019m interested in any kind of computing\/networking\/digital tech that doesn\u2019t involve a screen, keyboard and beige box; we said hello and struck up a conversation. Later in the week, she sent me links to work &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the_gella\/collections\/72157623419453151\/\">REACTIVEfashion<\/a> &#8211; she\u2019d done (with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pineapplegirl.net\/\">Rebecca Grabman<\/a>) as a senior at Bennington:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Interactive Formalwear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the_gella\/sets\/72157622491616872\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2766\/4283195441_e013c9cc6b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tween Voodoo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the_gella\/sets\/72157623107661169\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2684\/4284066246_75740832d4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Skate Power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the_gella\/sets\/72157623232372098\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4012\/4284003812_9fab4f3c2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>Wow, said I.<\/p>\n<p>Before we get to what Angela has been up to recently, a few words on the path she took into Making. She went to Bennington intending to paint and do illustration, but ended up in a 3D animation class. When the person teaching 3D animation left, that program was essentially done (perils of small colleges). Not to worry &#8211; Angela jumped into Robert Ransick&#8217;s Viral Media class, from there, on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ransick.com\/bennington\/fall_06\/phys_com\/index.html\">Physical Computing<\/a>. Her timing was perfect &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/thehighlowtech.com\/\">Leah Beuchley<\/a> was off and running on her pioneering work, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/\">Arduino<\/a> folks had produced their platform (since adapted\/adopted into the wearable-friendly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/doncoyote\/4000981041\/\">Lilypad<\/a>) &#8211; there was a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/aliciagibb.com\/thesis\/\">fun and ferment<\/a> around wearables. Her interest in physical computing led to the work above, which was presented in a couple different venues &#8211; including a runway show, and to a class that I have to mention because the title is so great: Experiments in Mixed Reality (incidentally, structured around rapid prototyping cycles).<\/p>\n<p>Since I met her last fall, Angela has been producing great work at an amazing clip:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A temp sensing beverage <a href=\"http:\/\/softcircuitsaturdays.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/30\/project-2-temp-sensing-coffee-tea-sleeve\/\">cup sleeve<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Lady Gaga <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Lady-GaGa-Video-Glasses\/\">video glasses<\/a> &#8211; picked up by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/18\/diy-lady-gaga-pop-music-shades-so-magical-youd-be-so-fantas\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">Engadget<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5451507\/diy-lady-gaga-glasses-make-you-look-as-ridiculous-and-blind-as-she\">Gizmodo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/LED-Jellies\/\">LED jellyfish throwies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/softcircuitsaturdays.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/14\/fun-with-drawdio\/\">Jellyfish puppet<\/a> with integrated <a href=\"http:\/\/web.media.mit.edu\/~silver\/drawdio\/\">Drawdio<\/a> sound synth.<\/li>\n<li>And she attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tei-conf.org\/10\/\">4th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction<\/a> &#8211; and blogged it for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fashioningtech.com\/\">Fashioning Technology<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the_gella\/4432913078\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the_gella\/4432913078\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4065\/4432913078_509e3c7333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m probably missing a couple, too. Going forward, I&#8217;ve heard rumblings that she&#8217;s coordinating flash-mob fun (including interactive tech) with Tara Sullivan (organizer of the Portsmouth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/doncoyote\/4061847595\/\">Thriller Dance<\/a> last Halloween) and know for sure that she&#8217;s looking into makerspace possibilities here on the seacoast. Especially with the flash-mob planning, it seems that she&#8217;s exploring some of the group dynamics\/interaction themes that were central to at least one of the rapid-prototype projects she&#8217;s described to me.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"lovelace\"><\/a>Why Angela Sheehan on Ada Lovelace Day? She epitomizes, for me, many of the best aspects of Maker kulturny. She mashes up things she&#8217;s skilled at with things she&#8217;s figuring out and isn&#8217;t daunted by &#8216;I&#8217;ve never done that before&#8217;. If it&#8217;s something she wants to know, she learns it; if it&#8217;s less intriguing, she&#8217;ll get help. She pulls stuff apart and repurposes components in service to her projects. Alongside the uber-maker thing is her creativity &#8211; Angela just has a ton of cool ideas, many of which involve technology (important for the whole Lovelace thing!). Three cheers for Ada Lovelace and three cheers for Angela Sheehan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/the_gella_sm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2162 aligncenter\" title=\"the_gella_sm\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/the_gella_sm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[Side note &#8211; you can find Angela&#8217;s chinchilla related work at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefuzzdepot.com\/index.html\">The Fuzz Depot<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first met Angela at a New Hampshire Media Makers meetup back in August 2009. During her three minute \u2018here\u2019s what I\u2019m up to\u2019 presentation she spoke of her interest in wearable tech: fabric\/electronic mashups. 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