Sniff

One thing that was certain when developing new prototypes was that the volume needed to be much louder, and that it needed to be adjustable for use in different situations. The volume suitable for use by a few persons in a small room was way different than the needs for volume in an exhibition setting, […]

New shapes for vacuum moulding is produced out of the old piece of cernit clay, and this time we add a flexible neck. This makes the prototype more vulnerable but we agree on that a flexible neck is a must

The inner sandwiches are connected with one of the plastic layers as “neck”. This neck […]

The stiff all-in-one shell seemed like a good idea when it comes to durability, but it turned out to be devastating for the experience of the prototype. While the electronics are safe inside this capsule, the overall stiffness of the model surely removed almost all lifelike qualities in the dog. The fact that he no […]

The final model is carefully split in the middle. The placement of the cibatool and wood boxes that represent the technology are now visible again. Each side of the model is slightly built up from underneath with a layer of capa-board, to make the vacuum moulded plastic cover enough of the shape to make a […]

After moving around some small details in the construction we land on a minimum-size for the sandwiches in the head and the body. Theese are then constructed in cibatool, with a small extra margin on 1 mm on each side.

The cibatool blocks are then embedded in cernit clay, a horribly troublesome material to mould and […]

I am very happy that Sniff now’s gonna be a part of the Touch project. On the first workshop for the Sniff vers. II project me, Einar and Timo decide how to go ahead when constructing the new prototypes. When it comes to Physical Computing we land on a sandwich model, that’s gonna be mounted […]

In the last Dagbladet Sunday magazine for 2007 (30.12.07) there is an article about 50 things, places and People we believe in for 2008, and Sniff is presented as one of them.

Sniff is represented with two large pictures as well as a brief description of the project in Tom Igoes book Making Things Talk. Sniff is one of many student works represented in the book as illustrative projects.

Of course I feel very honoured : )

During the fall semester I’ve made plans to build new prototypes of Sniff. As the months gone by I’ve mainly focused on my Diploma project, but the plans for Sniff has always been in the back of my head. The main improvement for this new round is to integrate an mp3 player for a fuller […]