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Anuradha Reddy
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Dec 18, 2022

Reading AI Family Resemblances using Cross-Stitch Patterns

It all began when I prompted OpenAI’s DALL-E to visualise what one unit of cross-stitch looks like. Several prompt tweaks and variations later— I generated 12 separate cross-stitch units. These images resembled one another, like a family portrait, individually distinct but sharing visual traits with one another. …

AI

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Reading AI Family Resemblances using Cross-Stitch Patterns
Reading AI Family Resemblances using Cross-Stitch Patterns
AI

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Jul 8, 2021

Secure your Home IoT Devices with the CryptoCrochet-Key

Are you frustrated by complicated home security solutions requiring all manner of smart IoT devices with big-brother-y fingerprint/facial recognition tech, when all you want is a simple key to secure your home? In a brave new world of quantum encryption, cryptocurrencies and NFT transactions, the concept of a ‘key’ is…

Machine Learning

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Secure your Home IoT Devices with the CryptoCrochet-Key
Secure your Home IoT Devices with the CryptoCrochet-Key
Machine Learning

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Apr 24, 2021

Making the Internet of Towels (IoT) with Lenticular Images & QR codes

In this article, I will share my process of crocheting a QR code into a towel. I call this piece the ‘Internet of Towels’ (yes, that’s right, IoT). In plain view, the towel looks just like any other knitted fabric with an abstract pattern on it, but when titled to…

Lenticular

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Internet of Towels
Internet of Towels
Lenticular

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Nov 20, 2020

Crochet your own resistor cushion

“I remember I had a resistor stuck in my heel when I walked barefoot … stuff just kept flying around my apartment.” — Laura Kampf, Youtuber/Maker (Bricolage podcast, 15th December, 2017) While working on a project, do you find loose resistors lying about willy-nilly (or for that matter any leggy…

Crochet

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Crochet your own resistor cushion
Crochet your own resistor cushion
Crochet

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Oct 6, 2019

Do things have ethics? — A design provocation

Things having ethics? When people talk about ethics, they are usually addressing ethics in and between humans — to cause no harm to one another, to be polite, to respect one another, to not cross boundaries etc. However, people rarely think about ‘things’ having ethics in them. For instance, consider a…

Makers

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Do things have ethics? — A designer’s perspective
Do things have ethics? — A designer’s perspective
Makers

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Aug 22, 2018

How I feel about being a designer

These days I come across a number of news articles about racism, poverty, surveillance, extremism, exploitation, sexual harassment and climate change, and they worry me as much as, I assume, every other designer who thinks they have a part in making our world a better place. What gives me, a…

Design

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How I feel about being a designer
How I feel about being a designer
Design

6 min read

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