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'''Tanya Ukositkul''': a fourth year student from John Muir College, majoring in Media with an emphasis in Computing.
 
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== Personal Thoughts ==
 
== Personal Thoughts ==

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Tanya Ukositkul: a fourth year student from John Muir College, majoring in Media with an emphasis in Computing.


Personal Thoughts

I was born in Los Angeles, CA, and spent almost 14 years of my life growing up in Bangkok, Thailand. I came back to the United States for high school and began to see my path in the arts clearer. I am mainly inspired by the music of my several favorite bands to create my drawings, doodlings, and illustrations. I enjoy being around the art world, where people create things, whether it's in an audio or a visual form. I love how I feel when a piece could inspire and awaken my soul.


Transferring to UCSD in Fall 2009, I didn't really expect for the computing emphasis to be the way it is. I thought it would be more of web and graphic design. To be truthful, I was disappointed at first. However, now I feel that I am challenged by my classes to do things I've never thought I would be doing. I mean, this is what college is for. I should be learning about new things and also finding out about myself. Well, this class is also one of them. I mean, electronic? Not really my sort of thing. In fact, I didn't even know what soldering something meant until the first lecture, but this doesn't mean I am not going to try. It is one of my biggest challenge for the year and I know I have a lot to learn. And I will also learn a lot (and, hopefully, I can show to my brother that.. hey, see, I did this!)


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Field Research

1. This is a small little fan that my brother uses to hook up to his laptop to help cool it down.


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2. This is a "tamagotchi," a small digital pet. It used to be a hit when I was 11(?) while still living in Thailand. This one is just a year old though.


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3. This is a little kit for blood test for people with diabetes.

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4. This is my brother's $300 toy, a lego robot. You could put him in a different form and program him to do various things.


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5. This is a boom-box backpack. You plug in your MP3 player to it and share your music to the world. It reminds me of this guy in my high school. He made his own and walked around campus with the music in the background.. kind of like a scene in a film.

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Midterm Project Proposal

Description

For the midterm, I am thinking of making this project like a small electric puzzle game. Turning different switches equals turning on different bulbs, but the idea of this project is to puzzle it up. The goal is to have the user/player play and figure out the correct switches to be able to turn on all the bulbs at once. I am not sure of how this would turn out or whether I will be able to make it happen or not, but I was trying to make something interesting, if not to others, at least it would be to me. I was inspired by the detective/puzzle computer games I’ve played. I remember that I’d always wonder if these puzzle things can be real so I have incorporated that idea of puzzle game into this project.

I know this project idea might sound a little too simple and easy, but I hope you understand. I’d like to start from here and maybe build up to something else if possible.


Visualization

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Diagram

(coming soon...)