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Thanks to Jeff Gray for this most excellent link to a project describing how to attach your blender to a motion sensor to scare yoru cat off the counter.  On the one hand: gratuitous use of technology, anyone?  On the other: didn’t buy yet another cat-specific item to do the job.  On the third: how do you stop the blender from going off when you come in the room?

This weekend I went down to Austin, Texas for Maker Faire Austin, the 2008 edition.  ITP resident researchers Rory Nugent and Hyeki Min went with me, as did recent alums So-Young Park and Young-Hyun Chung.   Between us, we took eight ITP projects: Young-Hyun’s Digital Wheel Art, So-Young’s  Music & Fashion Coordinator, Tom Gerhardt’s FireLight, Christian Cerrito’s Brushbots, Che-Wei Wang and Kristin O’Friel’s Momo, Rory’s Square Band, Alex Reeder’s Butterfly Dress,and Eric Rosenthal’s Liquid ID Spectrometer. It was exhausting showing work for two days straight, but a lot of fun as well.

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