Author Archives: tigoe
Toronto DigiFest and more
Just got back from Toronto, where I attended events at Toronto Digifest and TIFF Nexus. I was very impressed with all the interesting work happening there. I gave a presentation at DigiFest on Arduino, Physical Computing and Mass Participation (PDF, … Continue reading
The thing that made me cry today
This morning, Massimo sent me a link that popped up as part of a Google alert for the keyword “Arduino”. It was the story of Ahmed Bassiouny, beautifully eulogized by Kent Mensah of AfricaNews.com. Bassiouny was one of the activists killed … Continue reading
Open Source Hardware Definition v.1.0 released
Last year, along with other members of the Arduino team and colleagues from several other open source hardware makers, I attended the Open Hardware Summit in New York. We began working on a definition and statement of principles for producing open … Continue reading
Open Hardware Summit, Sept 23, 2010
So what exactly is open source hardware? We’re getting closer to a consensus definition, thanks to Ayah Bdeir and Eyebeam. A few months ago, she put together a workshop on open source hardware, and invited a group of people who … Continue reading
Physicality, Conviviality, and Openness
Physicality, conviviality, and openness are the themes of a series of talks I gave last week to the HCI group at RWTH Aachen, thanks to Jan Borchers. These three ideas run through most of the work I’ve been doing over … Continue reading
Practice, Practice, Practice
Ashlynn Dewey just sent me links to a new Nike+ ad that she ran across that reminded her of our physical computing class(thanks, Ash!). It’s a great video that shows a couple of supercool Japanese DJs making music on specially … Continue reading
Happy Ada Day, and thanks
Today being Ada Lovelace Day (though I’d like to see Grace Hopper day too), it seems a good time to say thank you to three women without whom I wouldn’t be doing what I do. Stacy Horn, founder of Echo … Continue reading
Random thoughts on consciousness and physical experience, coming together
I just had one of those wonderful moments where a bunch of ideas that had been floating around in my head for a number of years came together and made sense, thanks to a section of Alva Noë’s book Out … Continue reading
MAKE: Electronics: I love this book!
Make: Electronics, Charles Platt. © 2009 Make Books, Sebastapol, CA; 1st edition ISBN: 0596153740 Just go buy it. It’s the best introductory book I’ve read on electronics. To start with, the book is gorgeous. Maybe you can’t judge a book by … Continue reading
Traceroute Fun
The students in my Understanding Networks class had a short assignment this past week, to run a couple dozen traceroutes, and do visualizations with the results. A few interesting points came out of it. Alejandro Kaufmann did traces mostly on … Continue reading