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Primo

Primo (“first” in italian) is a toy for kids.
It’s composed by a board, a RC car and a set of instruction-blocks all made out of wood. By placing the instructions on the board and pressing the “GO” red button the car starts to execute the commands. The purpose of this toy is to teach the high-level abstraction of programming as a sequence of instructions at very young children. They are in facts controlling a machine by giving it a set of instructions in order to solve levels. The purpose of the game is indeed to get the car from a point to another avoiding physical obstacles on the floor. Read more →

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Quick Prototypes

A collection of working prototypes made during workshops or exhibitions in a very small amount of time Read more →

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Ambient Loop

Video coming soon! Ambient Loop is an application designed for touch screen devices that can record and visualize live samples from the environment and arrange and modify them. Every sample is matched with a circle that the user can move freely or in a grid structure on a canvas to modify the sound and create … Read more →

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Lifetime

Limetime is a clock that simulates the behavior of cells at a microscopic level, where elements instead of dividing themselves by mitosis, join together every time unit (minute, hour) to create more complex organisms. In the project there are three different kinds of “cells”, each to represent a time unit, respectively seconds, minutes and hours. … Read more →

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Cardboard Synth

This is a fully-functional analog synthesizer that uses a condensator to create sawtooth soundwaves. You can change the pitch with a variable resistor knob (potentiometer) and also choose from a long or short delay with a simple switch that activates a smaller condenser. In addition to the basic soundwave generation there’s also an effect circuit. … Read more →

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Shared Kitchen Concept

This was the result of a workshop in Politecnico di Milano with the kitchen brand Scavolini. They asked us to work on a concept for a new kitchen, designed for the actual urban context. We focused on shared flats, where different people with different lifestyles share the same (small) space. Everyone cooking for himself in a shared space … Read more →