Fortune Board with fortune cookies.
For the final project, I rolled
ceramics, circuits & Fabtronics, and mapping. I did not know where to start, but knew that there was going to be something around the topic of either your mood, or reading your palm. Then was telling my mom about this project, and she thought of the idea of a fortune cookie. I was like, hmm.... but how. Once I started thinking, it made more sense! I wanted to do porcelain fortune cookies that would light up this board I made in order to get your fortune.
Now that I had my ideas in my head, I wanted to test out and see. I made the fortunes in the computer, cut them and print them to then be added to the cookies. The cookies were super fun to make, and really easy. My hard task was to add circuits to the board, and how to hide it from everyone who is using the board. It was tricky, but I ended up creating tiny simple circuits made out of conductive fabric (that is adhesive!) into papers to then use modge podge and make them stay. They LED lights in the circuits worked! as well as the placing in the board. The next thing I needed was to cover the circuits, so I used tissue paper and modge podge to cover the entire board. I then added some ceramics slip to the board to make it connect to the idea of ceramics. It looks really nice! The reason why the cookie and the closing the circuit works so well is because there is a bitt of tissue paper on top of the battery and that embraces the circuit and helps the closure of it.
As a result, I had a board that in order to find your fortune, you have to find the a light in the board. It is very playful, but also you don't even know what you are doing until you find one of the lights. An element of surprise. The idea behind it is that you never know what your fortune will be in real life, and sometimes things do not go as planned. So the mapping adds an extra layer of mapping your fortune. I learned a lot in the making, as well as in the end result, and would definetly expand in this idea and even try it out in a classroom set one day!
Fig 1. The mapping board with all the paper circuits before being covered (it works!)
Fig 2. Making all the porcelain fortune cookies out of porcelain in the ceramics studio.
Fig 3. Close up of the board with the tissue paper and the porcelain slip, and a some LED light in the left corner.
Fig 4. The mapping board when showing in the final, with fortune cookies already open.
Fig 4. The mapping board, being in use to find the lights.
Fig 5. Using the cookies to find the LED light. All of the participants found the lights and got their fortune.
Fig 6. Looking at how the pressure of the finders also creates the closed circuit to have the light appear.
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