Sumit Pandey

Sumit is an interaction and industrial designer from India. Lying at the intersection of technology, design and human behavior, his work involves designing, appropriating and developing technology for the creation of objects and spaces that evoke emotion, creativity and playfulness. A designer and engineer by training and a hacker at heart, he is keenly interested in using and repurposing traditional and new media to create simple yet novel and powerful experiences. Through his studies and work with the New Medias and Information Communication Technology over more than 4 years, he has worked on a range of assignments in various fields including designing interactions, museum installations, new media art installations, human centered design, animation design and web design.

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August 21, 2011

Openframeworks: Beginnings - Line+Random

Started with openframeworks over the weekend. Just playing with basic graphic functions, line and circle, and mixing things up with a bit of randomness thrown in. XCode took a little time to get used to, but now things seem to be shaping up quite well. Plan to geek out for a couple of hours everyday with C++ :) The code is based on the processing code by Matt Pearson from his excellent book Generative Art.

2 things that might be helpful for people starting out with openframeworks/c++

Command /Developer/usr/bin/g++-4.2 failed with exit code 1

- usually means the same main file has been imported twice. delete the examples folder in the imported contributed library to be safe, thats what worked for me.

Do not make variable initializations (assigning value to the variables) in the .h file. ISO C++ does not like it :) People used to the Processing style of primarily procedural coding are prone to this error, so just thought it should be there as a reminder, in case the error pops up.

Filed under // 101 New media basics c++ geekout generative art line openframeworks random function xcode

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August 8, 2011

Birthday fun!

This birthday seems awesome! Tiblo, a project I did with Prerna, a school for dyslexic children, got picked up by Fast Co.Design. More details at http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664701/tiblo-lets-dyslexic-kids-snap-words-and-s...

In other news, NID is over and done with now :D Yay!

Filed under // children dyslexia fast company tiblo

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July 6, 2011

Tinkering

Just opened my set of mindstorms. Getting back to robotics since after construct deconstruct, since I have some free time in my hands. This one is more of a hello world robot, hopefully ones that do more would follow soon :) Images and a super short video follow:

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January 27, 2011

Playing with electronics

A semester full of Arduino hacking later, felt it was time to move on to learning how to code a microcontroller manually. (Wanted to make the fireflies instructable actually :P) Managed to figure out the code and "uploading using a programmer" part and the fireflies worked. Yay! Used an ATTiny13, a LDR and an LED. Coded on XCode and uploaded by Sparkfun's pocket AVR Programmer using crosspack AVR for the mac.

Filed under // electronics DIY ATTiny13 New media fireflies instructables microcontrollers nid tinkering

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September 26, 2010

OZCHI-24

Its been pretty hectic last couple of months, but a lot of stuff has turned out of it as well :) Participated in an 24 hr online design challenge and had a marathon (shall I say excessive :P) run of the design process. The results were pretty satisfying conceptually, but the final representation left a lot to be desired. We plan to sit on it and rework those lose ends in the coming week :)

The brief had to do with rejuvenating lost and forgotten spaces, physical or otherwise.

For more details and the start-finish log of the marathon check out http://nid-nmd.tumblr.com
For more details on the contest itself, check out: http://ozchi-design.org/

Fingers crossed :)

Filed under // 24 hours bridges chi design process experiences forgotten spaces nid ucd

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April 2, 2010

Photography

Some of my old work which I did just like that and as a part of the
photography course at NID. The places are Rani roopmati ni masjid,
Teen Darwaja, Gandhi Ashram and some other random places in old
Ahmedabad city.

Filed under // D80 ahmedabad course nid people photography places

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March 29, 2010

Photography

Some photography that I recently got time to review. Pics mostly from Goa and a few others from my short trip to Nasik. Taken from a 6 month old Canon 1000D with stock lens. Poverty prevents me from getting a better lens :(

Filed under // 1000D goa hobby nasik photography random

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March 27, 2010

Goa Pictures

No updates from quite sometime. Been on field trips or preparing for
them. All in all, a sem on the run :) These pictures are of an
interactive installation done by me and classmate Anuradha Reddy at
Kala Academy, Goa during IIJS Signature Goa 2010.

Filed under // Euphony Goa IIJS Installations Sound Art live project

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January 10, 2010

More Processing | HypoEpiC

Another in the list of ongoing experiments in code art. Feels like spamming now :P
Thanks to Wolfram MathWorld.
See it live on OpenProcessing.
Built with Processing.