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			<p class="project-info-title">overview</p>
			<p class="project-description">Solo is an emotional radio that heralds the future of a friendlier, more playful Artificial Intelligence. Through exploring the creative, interpretive and emotional potential of AI, Solo connects us to our emotions through mood inspired radio.</p>


			<p>Born from a week­ long design sprint exploring the shift towards a more human AI, Solo combines facial feature recognition with music valence to read the nuance of expression and match tracks to your current mood. Sensing movement, Solo draws you in with its playful antenna. As you approach it takes your photo. It then sends that photo to a Microsoft API that analyses features and sends that information back again as an emotional breakdown with values measuring your happiness, sadness and anger. Solo translates these figures into a valence rating that corresponds with Spotify’s track valence ratings. Solo then plays the track it thinks you want to hear most. Kind of like a mix CD from a friend with great taste.</p>

			<p>To get an insight on the thinking behind Solo, read my Medium post <a href="https://medium.com/@orgonomyprod/designing-with-ai-53bda7b6042f" target="_blank">Designing With AI</a>.</p>

			<p>2016.......Uniform<br>
			Role.......Concept/Interaction Design/Technology<br>
			<!-- Press......<a href="https://gizmodo.com/these-lights-can-recreate-the-weather-above-your-house-1596246552" target="_blank">Gizmodo</a>,
				<a href="https://www.core77.com/posts/27555/In-the-Details-Making-Weather-Controlled-Lights-for-a-Subtle-Long-Distance-Connection" target="_blank">Core77</a>,
				<a href="https://www.creativeapplications.net/arduino-2/patch-of-sky-lamps-that-share-in-real-time-the-sky-above-us/" target="_blank">Creative Applications</a>,
				<a href="https://www.fastcodesign.com/3032345/wanted/arduino-powered-lamp-changes-colors-to-reflect-the-weather" target="_blank">Fast Company</a><br> -->
			Photos.....Uniform<br>
			Website....<a href="https://uniform.net/work/solo" target="_blank">uniform.net/work/projects/solo/</a></p>

			<!-- <br><p class="project-info-title">information</p>

			<p>Patch of Sky is a self-initiated project started at Fabrica initially as a collaboration between me and graphic designer Akshataa Vishwanath and later involving other designers and creatives at Fabrica.</p>

			<p>This project first started with a workshop that design firm <a href="https://blog.bergcloud.com/" target="_blank">BERG</a> (R.I.P.) held at Fabrica in Summer 2013. The workshop was part of a collaboration between the two studios with the goal of using Fabrica as sandbox for BERG's new project BERGCloud, an hardware and software solution for the internet of things</p>

			<p>Drawing from discussion sparked during the workshop, we began to think about some product that would take full advantage of the services and social presence available on the internet.
			This object would integrate with and extend the online world, rather than use it solely as a network infrastructure for connecting far away things.</p>

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			<p>Main inspiration for Patch of Sky came from our working place. Fabrica hosts designers and artists from all over the world, thus distance and nostalgia are naturally recurring topics. “How’s the weather there?” is a common question that parents, friends and partners ask over the phone, this is how they try to get a sense of the world distant ones are living while away. Drawing from this conversations we had the idea of Patch of Sky, an object that would silently connect people over distance, just by letting them “share the sky” under which they’re living in.</p>


			<p>The Patch of Sky prototypes use Arduino and BERGCloud shield for connecting to the web, while custom electronics and the <a href="https://github.com/fabricacode/arduinoLightAnimation" target="_blank">Arduino Light Animation</a> library are used for controlling the a RGB led strip. A Python web application handles linking of a Patch of Sky with a Facebook account. Weather at the user's location is then retrieved using Weather Undergroud API and sent to the paired Patch of Sky object through BERGCloud API.</p> -->

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