ITP is out of forks. So today I ate my delicious leftovers with chopsticks. Which there is an abundance of. And so the story goes.

No posts for March! What is up? Where's DelGaudio? Is he off his rocker? No... no... I've been extraordinary busy with thesis. That the name of the game these days.

I haven't written much about my thesis project intentionally. Partially because the project was still under wraps for a while as I fleshed out the idea more fully (and its still changing, as with everything, always, getting better every day).

The project that I've been working on for my thesis is a sensor, display, and reactive material system for a snowboarder. The system uses a GPS and accelerometer to collect rider data and broadcast it wirelessly to an embedded display in the rider's glove. Additionally the rider data can be transmitted to a phone or to a reactive material embedded in the board. Over spring break I spent the week in VT and tested a alpha version of the of the sensor system. Things overall went well. I'm now in the process of taking the data collected during the field test and using to create and test the glove display and reactive polymer. I've posted some of the photo documentation on Flickr.

Labels: snowboarding, thesis