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touching computers - by Spencer Chang - spencer's paradoxes

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Last fall while taking a hand-building ceramics class1 with S, I had the wild idea that I wanted to make something to carry my website around with me. I was thinking about the logo for both my website and this newsletter, which comes from my Chinese name, 正. I wanted a physical, tangible representation of my identity, something that could explain more than words what I care about to people when I first meet them. What if I made a trinket that held my website so I could carry around a thing that feels like one of the most true expressions of myself? Simultaneously, I'd been playing with NFC chips2 more lately, and it felt like a perfect combination of mediums to achieve my vision. NFC chips can hold small amounts of data, including links that open when tapped by compatible devices. The idea was to make a ceramic trinket with my logo embossed on the front and somehow get an NFC chip on the inside. After a few iterations, involving MATH(!!) to calculate clay shrinkages to size the contain

Last fall while taking a hand-building ceramics class1 with S, I had the wild idea that I wanted to make something to carry my website around with me. I was thinking about the logo for both my website and this newsletter, which comes from my Chinese name, 正. I wanted a physical, tangible representation of my identity, something that could explain more than words what I care about to people when I first meet them. What if I made a trinket that held my website so I could carry around a thing that feels like one of the most true expressions of myself? Simultaneously, I'd been playing with NFC…

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