Sketching in Hardware Day 1: Mike Kuniavsky

Sketching is at the Industrial Design department of RISD, courtesy of Tellart

vernacular, craftsman, artisan electronics in between one-off projects and massive industrial products
democratization of process of making, which in turn enables sketching
sketching: speed, cheapness, provisionality (put together only to be reworked), something that "wears a history of its own ideas in its physical presence
we are far enough along the hardware sketching tool development process to not have to reinvent the wheel
time to think about the values we embody in our tools, and how we can make it easier to do the "right" thing than the "wrong" thing - no matter how we define that

history of blender controls as a history of "encapsulation" of expert knowledge into increasingly customizable and interactive food tools
"so we don't have to know the messy details while still getting good results"
more and more things are becoming more "appliance-like"
linked together into object-oriented components, rather than individual devices
ie, like the RoomWizard scheduler
so, a question: how can knowledge be abstracted into the products that we make?

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