Exploring Gizmo
Speakers
Event date
July 31, 2025

Grishma Rao and Tiange Wang lead a workshop about Gizmo, a social network for making creative experiments and weird cameras using iOS sensors, including demos of blink detection, haptics, and facial expression recognition.

This session introduces Gizmo, a social network and "vibe coding" platform where users can build unique experiments from prompts using iOS sensors. Grishma and Tiange showcase various creations, including a camera that generates endless conversations between objects, a Morse code converter based on blink detection, a sound sampler, and a 3D sculpting tool using hand movements. They also demonstrate how users can create interactive experiences with haptics, image and sound uploads, and UI elements. The workshop highlights the platform's ease of use for rapid prototyping and encourages playful, strange creations, including games, generative text, creative tools, and sound editing. A live demo further illustrates the process of building and tweaking an experiment, such as a camera that allows drawing with facial expressions.