My plan for the final day was to try to build a small, inexpensive device that could be attached to a pair of sneakers. Each time the sneakers were worn, the device would increment a counter, so I would know how many days the shoe had “lived.” It would be a way to track my own wearing patterns, but also add a personal quality of age to an arguably inanimate object. When I mentioned this idea in the initial 4-in-4 meeting, people seemed to like it, and Rob Faludi suggested the possibility of using RFID (radio frequency identification), which sounded simple and kinda genius. The more I thought about it, the more the aging/tracking/rfid concept connected to another potential idea for my upcoming thesis, which has to do with individual inventory and has been marinating in my mind for a couple weeks now. Anyway, I didn’t get a chance to build any device; instead, I spent day 4 researching online, posting additional documentation for the first three days, and trying to set up a spring internship. All in all, 4-in-4 has been a real productive warm-up for this last semester, and I’m glad we made it happen.
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