Lawrence Baker
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Dec 16 2011
Larry’s Final Two
For my second major project, the midterm, I took apart a fax machine. The theme being dead tech I was very lucky to find a device which is set to go the way of the dodo soon. Email and other electronic communication standards were the death of the fax machine. While taking it apart I …
Dec 15 2011
Final Project
Project 3 – Final | Lost & Found Tech For my final project I had to work with the idea of “Lost and Found” tech; technology that was almost forgotten. I took this to mean lost techniques too because calligraphy based projects were mentioned at one point and those seemed OK and I figured that …
Dec 13 2011
That’s “Phon” pronounced “Fun”
Here’s my progress with the phonetic shorthand keyboard. “Putting the “Phon” in Phonetics” Here’s a good summary of what’s there
Nov 02 2011
Faxing Flowers
Here’s the blog post I did documenting my fax machine flower press. Dead Technology: Faxes to Flowers
Oct 05 2011
Dead Tech Application – Floppy Drives
Here’s some dead tech and other mechanical bits being used to make music. The first one is a pair of old floppy drives playing the Imperial March from Star Wars. Another from the same guy uses an old keyboard as an digital piano. This one is less dead tech but it …
Sep 01 2011
Junk Search
I figured I might as well put this up here since I can update it as I go. Though I haven’t had much luck yet. Junk Map So far it’s been mostly trash and recycling with some old furniture. Maybe I’ll have more luck in my family’s neighborhood when I go visit for Labor Day. …