Pet Time
For the third unit of our STEAM class LST (Light, Sound, and Time), we learned about time and space. We visited the Adler Planetarium to learn more about light, space, and time, and how they're all interconnected and how they affect one another. For this Action Project, we had to make our own design for a new type of clock or time-telling device, and create a short video about it.
Initially, my main idea for my time-telling device was a clock that used different colored LED lights for different hours of the day, with a light in the middle to differentiate AM and PM. Eventually, though, that idea ended up getting scrapped, as it didn't really have anything to connect back to in the past aside from other digital clocks. It also didn't have any real meaning behind it, or any meaningful direction to develop, unlike my final idea for a time-telling device.
Below is my recording, detailing my time-telling device Pet Time, what it does, and who it's targeted to.
Pet Time goes back to water clocks as a part of its ancestry, the lasers on the interior sort of mirroring the same functionality that the tick mark of an inflow or outflow water clock would have. In this case, Pet time would be an outflow clock, as the volume of water lowering shows the passage of time. It's better than a water clock, however, thanks to the advancements in modern technology that allow it to notify the user once the bowl is emptied through a connecting smartphone app.
In conclusion, I thought that this Action Project was quite interesting to participate in. Having us come up with our own time-telling devices was a difficult, but enlightening process, as we're so used to simple gear-based or digital clocks that we kind of forget that there are other ways of telling time out there.
Initially, my main idea for my time-telling device was a clock that used different colored LED lights for different hours of the day, with a light in the middle to differentiate AM and PM. Eventually, though, that idea ended up getting scrapped, as it didn't really have anything to connect back to in the past aside from other digital clocks. It also didn't have any real meaning behind it, or any meaningful direction to develop, unlike my final idea for a time-telling device.
Below is my recording, detailing my time-telling device Pet Time, what it does, and who it's targeted to.
Pet Time goes back to water clocks as a part of its ancestry, the lasers on the interior sort of mirroring the same functionality that the tick mark of an inflow or outflow water clock would have. In this case, Pet time would be an outflow clock, as the volume of water lowering shows the passage of time. It's better than a water clock, however, thanks to the advancements in modern technology that allow it to notify the user once the bowl is emptied through a connecting smartphone app.
In conclusion, I thought that this Action Project was quite interesting to participate in. Having us come up with our own time-telling devices was a difficult, but enlightening process, as we're so used to simple gear-based or digital clocks that we kind of forget that there are other ways of telling time out there.
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