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bongo-cat creator
Create your own bongo-cat meme using your keyboard
Glitch apppaper house designer
Design your own papercraft house using SVG
Glitch appsvg tracer
Free web-based vector tracing, especially useful for interpreting crease patterns and packaging diagrams.
Glitch appMedium post
stencilfy
Creates a stencil of any text, using any font
Glitch appMedium post
escape pier 9 room escape
Designing a pop-up room escape
Medium Posttinkercad circuits
Enabling anyone to learn about electronics and 3D design
Interactive 3D-printed Circuit AssembliesVisual programming for Arduino
Try Tinkercad Circuits
rainbow glow neopixel + arduino design
Creating a 3D-printed design for combining Neopixels with Arduino Unos, in collaboration with Erik Naumann and Becky Stern
InstructableTinkercad Circuits simulatable design
Tinkercad 3D Design
microbit led creator
A free tool for creating and sharing Microbit LED array designs
Glitch Sitemicrobit character design
Experimenting with creating Microbit-driven tamogachi
Medium Posteagle
Designing PCB tools that bridge electrical and mechanical design
Try EAGLE
spin
DIY turntable for capturing playful, animated design documentation
Spin websiteAssembly instructions
DIS Paper
IDC Paper
build in progress
Online community for sharing non-linear design process
Build in Progress archiveFablearn paper
IDETC Paper
Build in Progress: Shutting down and opening up
pix
Sharing design projects in community makerspaces
Pix Websitereplay
Auto-documenting tangible toolkit
Demo videoIDC Paper
mechanix
Interactive display for constructing, recording, and exploring chain reactions with tangible simple machines
Mechanix websiteDemo video
CHI Paper
IDC Paper
TEI Paper
publications
Tseng, T. (2016). Making Make-throughs: Documentation as stories of design process. Ph.D. Dissertation. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Tseng, T. and Resnick, M. (2016). Spin: Examining the Role of Engagement, Integration, and Modularity in Supporting Youth Creating Documentation. In Proceedings of DIS. Brisbane, Australia.
Tseng, T. (2015). Making Make-throughs: Supporting young makers sharing design process. In Proceedings of Fablearn 2015. Stanford, CA.
Tseng, T. (2015). Spin: A photography turntable system for creating animated documentation. In Proceedings of IDC. Boston, MA.
Tseng, T. Build in Progress: Building process-oriented documentation. In K. Peppler, E. Halverson, & Y. Kafai (Eds.), Makeology: The Maker Movement and the Future of Learning (Volume 2). New York, NY: Routledge.
Tseng, T. and Tsai, G. (2015). Process Products: Capturing design iteration with digital fabrication. In Proceedings of TEI. Stanford, CA.
Tseng, T. (2014). Modifying the shape of an Arduino. In A. Gibb (Ed.) Building Open Source Hardware: DIY Manufacturing for Hackers and Makers (p. 83-94). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley.
Tseng, T. and Resnick, M. (2014). Product versus process: Representing and appropriating DIY projects online. In Proceedings of DIS. Vancouver, Canada.
Tseng, T., Yang, M.C., and Ruthmann, A. (2014). Documentation in progress: Challenges with representing design process online. In Proceedings of IDETC. Buffalo, NY.
Tseng, T. and Bryant, C. (2013). Design, reflect, explore: Encouraging children’s reflections with Mechanix. In Proceedings of CHI Extended Abstracts. Paris, France.
Ducao, A., Tseng, T., and von Kapri, A. (2012). Transparent: Brain computer interface and social architecture. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH. Los Angeles, CA.
Tseng, T. and Resnick, M. (2012). Building examples: Media and learning affordances. In Proceedings of IDC. Bremen, Germany.
Tseng, T., Hemsley, R., and Resnick, M. (2012). Replay: A self-documenting construction kit. In Proceedings of IDC. Bremen, Germany.
Tseng, T., Bryant, C., and Blikstein, P. (2011). Collaboration through documentation: automated capturing of tangible constructions to support engineering design. In Proceedings of IDC. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Bryant, C., Tseng, T., and Blikstein, P. (2011). SLATE: System for Learning and Assessment through Tangible Exploration. Presentation at Cyberlearning Tools for STEM Education Conference. Berkeley, California.
Tseng, T., Chen, H.L., and Sheppard, S. (2011). Early Academic Experiences of Non-Persisting Engineering Undergraduates. In Proceedings of ASEE. Vancouver, Canada.
Tseng, T. and Yang, M.C. (2011). The Role of Spatial-Visual Skills in a Project-Based Engineering Design Course. In Proceedings of ASEE. Vancouver, Canada.
Tseng, T., Bryant, C., and Blikstein, P. (2011). Mechanix: A tangible interactive wall for exploring engineering design. In Proceedings of TEI. Funchal, Portugal.
Tseng, T. and Bryant, C. (2010). Mechanix. Poster and demo presented at SIGGRAPH for the Disney Research Learning Challenge. Innovation Award for outstanding innovation in an educational product.
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