Artefactos by Realitat
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Some IoT/phys/dig magic making that my ears and eyes appreciated. Are you listening?
Zimoun + Hannes Zweifel
Cian Corcoran
Tellart
Tessel by D.Letelier (Kangding Ray) and LAb[au]
DisplayCabinet: Ben Bashford
‘DisplayCabinet is the output of 24 hours with Tim Burrell Saward and Dan Williams“connecting up our things to the web, our environments to our things, and our things to us” as part of the Pachube Internet of Things Hackathon.’
Awesome!
Suzumushi: The Silent Swarm
‘This silent swarm of stylized crickets is downloading data from Internet and catalogue searches being undertaken by the public at the State Library Queensland. These searches are being displayed on the screen on their backs. Each cricket downloads the searches and communicates this information with other crickets. Commonly found searches spread like a meme through the swarm.’
TweetingSeat
‘an interactive park bench that logs its usage by uploading images of its users and environment to a live Twitter feed, allowing people to interact with it both in person and virtually.’
Social web of things
Barcode Bach
‘The overall idea has been to convey the fact that barcodes are unique through creating a tangible and sensuous experience with sound as output. While being a low cost technology, barcodes can contain complex amounts of information depending on the context of use. Thus, we chose from an early stage to focus on the core principles of barcodes.
Built on the Arduino platform, Barcode Piano uses simple and low cost technology. Each brick contains a different resistor that makes it possible to distinguish each brick from the rest of the bricks. When a brick is placed on the Barcode Piano it completes a circuit enabling the Arduino to read which resistor/brick is being placed and provide the accordingly sound output.’
The Barcode piano was developed at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID, www.ciid.dk) during a Physical Computing class held by Massimo Banzi, David A. Mellis, and David Gauthier.
Designed and implemented by Marco Triverio, Hao-Ting Chang, and Helle Rohde Andersen.
Love Song Machine
Digital interface physical bell ringing.
Love Song Machine by Tellart
Spotify meets RFID
Jordi Parra has made an RFID triggered Spotify player.
“In a nutshell the objects consists of Processing sketch, Arduino and an RFID reader. Each RFID tag can be assigned to a Spotify link, album, artist or search. When the tag is placed on the reader, an ID-12, it sends a trigger to Processing and triggers an AppleScript that will take over Spotify and play whatever is linked to that tag. The processing sketch can also retrieve the information about the track that is being played. For doing so, a packet sniffer is checking all the internet packets sent from the computer and whenever it finds something being sent to Last.fm, it grabs it and parses the track information (artist, album, title and length).”
More information at Creativeapplications and Jordi’s Blog
Changing Habits
Giraffe Innovation Limited, commissioned by London Sustainable Development Commission (2009)
Personal informatics, data footprints & open data is opening potential for design and citizens alike to change humanity and the impact of humanity on the environment.
Changing Habbits is an example of how humans can be more aware of their behaviour and its impacts and possibly change their behaviour accordingly.
Changing Habbits is an online programme created to calculate personal carbon footprints. By scraping informational aspects of your lifestyle it creates a humanoid form, with body parts distorted relative to the environmental impact of each activity.
‘Each body part relates to an area of activity. Where specific features are particularly deformed, this relates to the area of activity that produces the most carbon. Feet correlate to transport; hands to home energy; mouth to water; bottom to waste; stomach to food; and head to electrical goods and where body parts grow the individual’s impact is higher.’
They suggest that by visualising your Habbit ‘you will not only identify which parts of your lifestyle have the greatest environmental impact but also receive tips and advice on how to reduce your carbon emissions, whilst saving money.’
This moves beyond the individual to business encouraging ‘people and enterprises to take more responsibility for their actions or behaviours, with focus on links between work and home, supporting the idea that small changes can make a difference.’
To find out more visit: giraffeinnovation.com/index.php/changing-habbits
The success of such approaches is disputed as humans are by their nature unpredictable and may behave in the opposite enjoying growing a deformed habbit, competing in a destructive manner, malheureusement. But it is fun.
