Creative Technologies
Online Exhibition (Under construction)
Title: Tokyo Cake (2025)
Student: Qiuyuhong Lu
It is a 2-story heart-shaped jewelry box with hinges and opening doors on the first layer, it can also be used as a lantern.
Instructor: Kelly Cave
Untitled (Lantern) (2025)
Keming Chang
Untitled (Lantern) is a hanging lantern inspired by the visual language of carnivals and amusement parks. Referencing carousel structures, the work combines layered forms, repetition, and illumination to evoke movement, warmth, and celebration. The lantern consists of a double-layer structure: an inner hexagonal lantern and an outer rotating layer composed of hanging acrylic elements. A central dowel rod functions as an axis, allowing the outer layer to rotate fully around the glowing core.
Instructor: Kelly Cave
Relationship Terminator (2025)
Diana Hoang, Jon Diaz, Qiuyuhong Lu
Relationship Terminator is a two-player cooperative marble maze that makes communication a must. Each player holds a micro:bit; the micro:bits communicate to tilt a laser-cut maze in two axes using geared servo motors. One micro:bit controls left–up (voice and button), and the other controls right–down (button and voice), so the ball advances only when both players communicate and coordinate their actions! NeoPixel LEDs provide playful feedback and show who is “driving” each axis. The maze sits on a raised frame that exposes the wiring and mechanisms. Built collaboratively by a team of three, it makes teamwork visible: reach the finish... together!
Instructor: Kelly Cave
La Flore Fatale (2025)
Mary McIlvain
A multimedia project created using clay, found objects, and video, which parallels modern commodification and violation of the female form to human deterioration of Mother Nature
Instructor: Joe Cimino
LED Book Lamp (2025)
Xinai Emilie Chen
This is a book-shaped lamp. It lights up when you open it and turns off when you close it. The inspiration for this lamp came from a book-lamp tutorial I found online, but the original design required opening the book manually, which I felt was inconvenient. I wanted to automate the opening mechanism so that the lamp can light up automatically.
Instructor: Kelly Cave
Untitled (Light-Seeking Tree) (2025)
Keming Chang
Untitled (Light-Seeking Tree) is an interactive light-seeking lantern containing a small rotating tree structure. The tree is constructed from laser-cut acrylic pieces and hanging fabric strips, which sway and drift with the rotation, emphasizing a sense of motion and responsiveness. The top enclosure contains an Arduino microcontroller, a servo motor, and multiple light sensors. These sensors continuously read light levels from different directions. By comparing relative values rather than fixed thresholds, the system identifies the strongest light source and activates the servo to rotate the tree toward it. The piece functions as a simplified model of phototropism, translating a biological behavior into a mechanical and computational system.
Instructor: Kelly Cave