Sculpting with Data
Alzado.net Feb 5,2004
Alzado.net control of spotlights in a public square, operated over the net.
Bill Buxton Articles Feb 4,2004
Less Is More (More or Less): Speculations about the Design of Computers - Bill Buxton's essay on the weaknesses of general-purpose computers, and why application-specific, networked appliances are a better idea. See also Bill Buxton's site, where all of his writings can be found.
Blueink Feb 5,2004
Blueink Jen Lewin's project page, including her thesis project, Butterfly. Jen's documentation of her work is very thorough, including descriptions, schematics, code, notes on gears and motors, and much much more.
Chuck Genco Sep 25,2003
I'm really fond of Victorian style mechanisms, built in brass and dark woods. Chuck Genco's work seems to be a great example of it, though I've never seen it in real life.
IWAR - the Information Warfare Aug 30,2004
IWAR - the Information Warfare site. A frightening read.
Jim Campbell Oct 18,2005
Jim Campbell does light sculptures using very low-resolution video displays made of LEDs or light bulbs, showing short, silent films.
Lucas Cueni Feb 9,2006
Lucas Cueni has a blog of various interactive projects, most of which involve multiple physical objects making up a larger image, physical pixel-style.
Make your own ECG Aug 25,2003
Here's a site detailing how to build a simple homemade one. I wouldn't use it to diagnose a heart murmur, but if you're interested in biometrics, it's a nice place to start.
Mark Tilden's Robots Feb 4,2004
An interview with Mark Tilden about his analog robots, by Kevin Walker...
Motohoho Jun 29,2005
Motohoho is a group of ITP alums (Michael Schneider, Kentaro Okuda, Rikayo Horimizu, Ken Haller) designing a series of interesting networked objects and furniture.
Nabaztag Mar 22,2006
It talks in response to email messages, it wiggles its ears, and it lights up.... The nifty thing: they're a product, and they're less than $100.
Natalie Jeremijenko Feb 5,2004
I don't even particularly like robots, but I love the way this project visualizes invisible information (concentrations of toxins on a given site) using a technology that has been domesticated from military and industrial use into a child's toy.... This assignment, given to her design students, has grown into an excellent source of information on how various products are made, including chemical, material, labor, and political issues involved.
Network visualizations Nov 11,2003
\A few nifty network visualizations came up recently on the ITP alumni list: Internet Traffic Report, reports traffic loads on servers around the world. Touchgraph has some intersting visualizations of google links, liveJournal, and others.
Public Air Quality Indicator Sep 17,2005
The public air quality indicator is a public display that indicates the quality of the air in a city. It's highly localized, and a good example of an ambient display that has some practical use. The details of its construction are online and openly available as well
RFID readers Feb 13,2004
A few RFID readers worth mentioning; A compact flash model; thanks to Chris Dugan for the link. Price: $290.00 Skyetek has some nice ones, including the: M1, which I am playing with now (pretty small), about $100 D1, a simple box, about $300.
Raffi Krikorian Mar 30,2004
Raffi Krikorian is doing a lot of interesting work related to physical computing and networked objects, and has a lot of valuable links and notes online. His mehack blog is " A weblog devoted to taking it apart, learning from it, and putting it back together again".
Random Numbers and Physical Computing May 24,2004
Your consciousness is a great leveller for the sensors that are your eyes, ears, skin, nose, and taste buds When you move a photoresistor from one room to another, your readings will be totally different, and all of a sudden, you have to re-calculate what is "average" and what constitutes the lighting change that you want.... Even when we think we're being very regular physically, we're off by a number of milliseconds each time Most of the time when you use a random function in a program, it's because you're trying to duplicate or mimic the randomness of the real world.
Responsive Environments Group Mar 3,2004
The Responsive environments group at MIT has done a number of interesting projects: parasitic power from shoes, various radio-connected sensors, and more.
Some SMS/public art/public speech projects Feb 4,2004
Related to that, the Hellowworld project: "Send in your message, and see how it is projected by a laserbeam onto a mountain overlooking Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, onto the UN building in New York City, onto the most prominent building in downtown Mumbai or onto a 140 metre tall water fountain in Geneva.... These messages are first parsed according to a code that dictates how the music is created, and then rhythmically drive a speech synthesizer and a picture synthesizer in order to create a compelling, collaborative audiovisual performance.
Techhouse Tetris Feb 5,2004
Techhouse Tetris Tetris on an architectural scale...
Testing... This is Not a Simulation Dec 29,2005
was a one-night event staged by Eric Paulos (Intel Research, Anthony Burke (UC Berkeley), and David Ross (UC Berkeley). It was a party at which all the partygoers wore RFID tags.
The Datafountain Sep 14,2004
The Datafountain translates the relative values of the Yen, the Euro and the US Dollar as three fountain jets with variable heights. Thanks to Andrew Milmoe for the link.
Tholos Systems Video Landmarks May 30,2004
Tholos Systems wants to make a realtime surround video connection between the capitals of Europe. The proposed images are very seductive: Tholos Systems wants to make a realtime surround video connection between the capitals of Europe.
Visitor Awareness in the Web Feb 4,2004
Visitor Awareness in the Web - Schmidt and Gellersen on using physical devices as information displays for web traffic...