tinker.it
Blog from the makers of the Arduino. “This started off as Massimo Banzi’s blog, then it became an open platform for people to describe their tinkering with physical computing and interaction design in general.”
YouTube - Philips: Drag & Draw Technology
Interactive wall painting project from Philips. Dip your brush in the magic light can to get the color your desire and then paint away on the wall. The can has a laser projector embedded in the back. Shake the brush at the wall and the scene animates.
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pasta and vinegar » Doraemon helicopter hairband
Doraemon (flying robotic cat manga character) video game released in Japan that includes a gestural controller in the form of a headband with a helicopter blade on top. Kids fly Doraemon around by leaning and tilting their head back and forth.
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Pollock In Action
Youtube video of interactive installation “Pollock in Action”. Visitors take hold of a physical brush, dip it in colored light wells and drizzle the projected “paint” onto a canvas on the floor as Pollock did. Pretty cool.
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Chumby
“A compact device that can act like a clock radio, but is way more flexible and fun. It uses the wireless internet connection you already have to fetch cool stuff from the web… And a chumby can exchange photos and messages with your friends”
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Cell Phone Disco
“Electromagnetic radiation of active mobile phone sets off the LEDs in relative proximity. Light shadow follows the conversation through the space.”
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The Ghost in the Buddha Machine: An Interview with Christiaan Virant of FM3
FM3’s latest release is a portable, hardware loop-player containing nine short loops of FM3 music called the Buddha Machine. A “remix” of cheap Buddhist prayer players as mass produced in China.
Processing.org - Basic Stamp serial communication
Basics of sending a stamp info via a serial connection from processing.
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Shapeshifters » Twisted hard drive
Cool physical computing project from Ivrea. External hard drive represents how out-of-sync it is with the host PC by altering its shape. Give the cube a twist to start the sync process. Pretty elegant idea.
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“With PicoCricket you can create musical sculptures, interactive jewelry, dancing creatures and other playful inventions”
MIT Media Lab creation presented by Mitch Resnick at last night’s talk. Created specifically to appeal to more kids (esp girls) than the Lego Mindstorms set which has been marketed as a robotics toolkit.
Near real-time census of marine life
“Tiny microprocessors and sophisticated remote sensing systems now make it possible for scientists to explore the vast reaches of the open ocean from the perspective of the top-level predatory animals…”
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musicBottles - Exploring the component parts of a musical performance
Each part becomes audible when that instrument’s bottle is uncorked. Interesting problems shown in video - ie representing real time interaction of jazz parts. Also “affordances” of glass bottles good for listening, not for music making (mixing.)
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Radio Babylon [andym’s Projects]
Little gumstix device that scans open networks for iTunes shares. Will stream a random song from a random share to headphones. Neato! Serendipitous listening experience.
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I Can Feel the Music (David A. Mellis)
Pair of radios that let one explore the radio spectrum by way of touch. I especially like “I Can Feel the Music 1″ as it resists or accelerates the turning of the tuning wheel as one navigates the slopes, peaks and valleys of radio signal strength.
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Multi-Touch Sensing through LED Matrix Displays - Using an LED display bidirectionally to optically detect finger touches
Two scalable techniques for enabling ordinary LED matrices to simultaneously act as multi-touch input devices. In 1977, Forrest M. Mims reminds us in one of his “Engineer’s Notebooks” that LEDs can also be used as photodiodes…
Hokey Spokes!
Persistence of vision bike spoke attachments, customizable text messages via an IR connection and some Palm software. All it takes is $30 bucks to become the nerdiest biker on your block.
Sonicforms - an open source research platform for developing tangible interfaces for audio visual environments.
The aim of the project is to improve this area of musical interaction by creating a community knowledge base and open tools for production. By decentralising the technology and providing an easier entry point, artists and musicians can focus on creating e
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Whisper
A garden of cala lilies whispers quietly into ones ear.
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NYX Illuminated Clothing at Siggraph
Very bright LED display sewn into the jacket fabric. $1K per jacket, they hope to reduce the cost to $200 per jacket.
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Gestural iPod remote
For controlling your iPod in snowy glove-demanding situations. iPod, accelerometer, microcontroller.
Blowing “Windows”
Cool project. Check out the video. “By blowing into the hose the user can clear their cluttered desktop or breeze icons to new positions. Playing on our spatial instincts learned in the physical world, by blowing in one end and angling the other they ca
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Sensors, motors and electronics for DIY projects
Spotted in Make Magazine. Sells their “Teleo” toolkit for plug-n-prototype development with sensors, motors, av output etc.
Wiring - a programming environment and electronics i/o board for exploring the electronic arts, tangible media, teaching and learning computer programming and prototyping with electronics
It illustrates the concept of programming with electronics and the physical realm of hardware control which are necessary to explore physical interaction design and tangible media aspects
Martin Frey - Interaction design blog
Student at Universitat der Kunste in Berlin. Great blog detailing his interaction design and physical computing projects!
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Digital Media Program
Universitat der Kunste, Berlin
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Hello
John is currently thinking and designing in San Francisco.
Projects
Message Muni
A simple and forgiving text messaging service for San Francisco Muni arrival times.
DSButtons.com
DS Buttons are an invitation to play.
Collaborators
Adam DuVander
of WifiPDX and Simplicity Rules fame.
Josh Heumann
Polaroid alchemist extraordinaire.
Sean Madden
The Pixelnomad.
Name Redacted
Qué mysterioso.
Tom Watson
Stays up late over at 110am.