{"id":37748,"date":"2021-01-27T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=37748"},"modified":"2021-01-19T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T22:35:26","slug":"whats-in-my-bag-carla-diana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-bag-carla-diana\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in my bag? \u2014 Carla Diana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carla Diana<\/strong>\u00a0runs the tech-focused\u00a04D Design 2-year MFA Program<\/a>\u00a0at Cranbrook Academy of Art and is always looking for smart, creative techies who want to be part of it. She is the author of\u00a0LEO the Maker Prince<\/a>\u00a0and has a new book coming out this March called\u00a0My Robot Gets Me: How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human<\/a>. She is the Head of Design for Diligent Robotics and cohosts the\u00a0Robopsych Podcast<\/a>. You can always find her at\u00a0www.carladiana.com<\/a>\u00a0or on Instagram\u00a0@carladiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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About the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark Ryden Anti-Theft Backpack<\/strong><\/a>: it\u2019s roomy, fits a laptop easily, has a compartment for a battery pack that can link up to a usb port on the outside of the bag, a comfy handle, lots of pockets, and an \u201canti-theft\u201d compartment that is on the side of the backpack that goes against your back to avoid pickpocketing.<\/p>\n

What’s inside the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pixycam<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is an inexpensive camera that can be hooked up to a microcontroller\/robotics platform like Arduino or Raspberry PI to give it camera vision, basically to give it a souped up sensor! It wound up in my bag because I haven\u2019t has time to tinker with it in my studio so am keeping it handy for when I can sneak in a late light coding session.<\/p>\n

Wooden Stars<\/strong><\/a>: These little things are a currency in my household. I use them with my 5 year old as a reward for whatever things I want to highlight: taking a bath, cleaning his room, being super quiet when I am on a video meeting that is going on forever. He collects them and then can use them to purchase things. One star can buy a small chocolate or an extra book at bedtime; two can buy a Hotwheels toy car; ten stars can be used to purchase a larger toy. And the whole system has led to some really great conversations about concepts like relative value and fungibility.<\/p>\n

Starkist Extra Virgin Olive Oil Wild Yellowfin Tuna Pouch<\/strong><\/a>: I have always liked the idea of food that comes in shapes that stack and store easily. (My dream would be little two inch cubes that fit together, but I digress\u2026) I keep a bunch of these in a file cabinet, like they are little files of food. The tuna on a slice of bread is my go-to lunch when I don\u2019t have time to prepare anything. And since I share a kitchen with eight other people this makes it easy for me to make a lunch on my own without having to get in the way. (Extra helpful during COVID times.)<\/p>\n

INONE Aurora Non Responsive Yo-Yo<\/strong><\/a>: This was a gift from my students in the 4D Design Program at Cranbrook. It\u2019s a new program that I have created and launched, so this first group of pioneers is very special, and I was touched. It seems my bag is full of potential things to play with. Like the pixycam, I haven\u2019t used this yet, but I got super psyched when I saw how challenging it was, and I look forward to building some skillz! It is a \u201cnon-responsive\u201d yoyo, which apparently is a thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s in my bag? issue #86<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2303],"tags":[1553],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37751,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37748\/revisions\/37751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}