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Final Project:
I want to make a tongue-in-cheek commentary on President Yudof's yearly salary, which is 540,000 a year (while President Obama makes 400,000).
I got a sound chip from a greeting card that plays the song "Taking Care of Business," the meaning of which is that Yudof treats the UC system like a business, raising student fees by 15 percent instead of cutting administrative salaries or cutting back on construction. I chose the cookie jar because of the saying of "having one's hand in the cookie jar." In my opinion Yudof is taking too many cookies.
The project is metaphorical, the technology of the speaker serving image and the image serving language, so really, it's an old-fashioned sort of project. The cookie jar is meant to have a very kitschy quality, Yudof looking rosy cheeked and benevolent like he knows what's best for everyone.
Here is the sound chip:
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii50/existentialistcat/_MG_2898.jpg
Here's the cookie jar. I wanted it to have a hand-crafted look, so I painted Yudof's portrait in acrylic. It reminds me of the "raisin girl."
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Here's the whole system, including the arduino, breadboard, soundchip and speaker all layered onto each other.
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii50/existentialistcat/IMG_2906.jpg
Here's the final portrait of Yudof on his cookie jar. He looks like a friendly grandpa.