Author Archives: tigoe
In defense of open source innovation and polite disagreement
First off: congratulations to the MakerBot team on Replicator 2, and on the store. It looks like a good product, from first impressions. It’s a lot of hard work getting a product out, and more opening a store. The team … Continue reading
Making Interactive Art: Set the Stage, Then Shut Up and Listen
Don’t interpret your own work. Quite often I see artists who venture into interactive art start by making interactive artworks and offering interpretation in the notes beside them. They’ll describe the work, then tell you what each element means,and what … Continue reading
Toronto DigiFest and more
Just got back from Toronto, where I attended events at Toronto Digifest and TIFF Nexus. Â 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? Â We’re getting closer to a consensus definition, thanks to Ayah Bdeir and Eyebeam. Â 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. Â 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