Social Digital module(joint with Product Design) project called Random Recipes.
The final product meant to enhance/ improve the daily routine of a busy family. We used research material form a NCR proect called Busy Families/Busy Cities, people from new York, Paris and Honk Kong were intervieved and we used their the information for our projects.
The user got random recipes each day - in the morning the user had to reach in and grab a piece of paper that contained all the ingredients for a random dish and do the same thing to get the instructions in the evening when they got back home from work buying the ingredients on the way back. The box uses an Arduino microprocessor to pull out random daily recipes from an rss feed of BBC FOOD and sends the information to a thermal printer which then prints out the information. We used PHP, Processing and Arduino porgramming environments