meet drip

the slightly strange looking, RFID tagged wooly raindrop.



Inside his lovely wooly exterior is an RFID tag that when placed on the Mir:ror tells you what the weather is like in Norwich. Because Norwich is cool. I would like him to bring up places where it is raining, but unfortunately until i get my hands on another RFID reader, probably this one, with one of these, i'm stuck in the mir:ror's interface and way of doing things. Also the RFID reader i'm thinking of getting is discussed in Tom Igoe's "Making Things Talk", so hopefully getting it doing what i want it to do should be relatively simple.

I've actually had to re-teach myself how to knit, in order to make little drip. I thought that it would be quite nice if the objects are reminiscent of the clothes worn in that weather, and it also makes it more approachable. Technology is less scary when it's hidden behind a nice wooly jumper.

fio has a very long to do list...

after a couple of days of offending people through the lovely violet mirror, i am coming to the conclusion that i need to get it into processing for things to get really interesting. i'm not sure at this point of how to do it, but i'm hoping that after a little bit of research i'll be able to get my head round it.

i'm interested in using some of the applications that come in built with the mirror, such as sending tweets and counting how many times and object has been placed on the mirror, but i would like it to be intertwined with the apps that work the wiimote and arduino boards as well, i'm aware that i'm probably going to be making things hard for myself by squeezing as much different technologies into one piece but i'm up for a bit of fun.

i'm going to try to get some more RFID tags to play with too.. must.. tag.. everything..

i also need to either get or make some more toys... i want to use vibe boards to make things move around the place.

i can't go off critical studies cold turkey.

"...The mirror is, after all, a utopia, since it is a placeless place. In the mirror, i see myself there where i am not, in an unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface; i am over there where i am not, a sort of shadow that gives my own visibility to myself, that enables me to see myself there where i am absent: such is the utopia of the mirror. But it is also a heterotopia in so far as the mirror does not exist in reality, where it exerts a sort of counteraction on the position that i occupy. From the standpoint of the mirror, i discover my absence from the place where i am, since i see myself over there. Starting from this gaze that is, as it were, directed towards me, from the ground of this virtual space that is on the other side of the glass, i come back towards myself; i begin again to direct my eyes toward myself and to reconstitute myself there where i am. The mirror functions as a heterotopia in this respect: it makes this place that i occupy at the moment when i look at myself in the glass at once absolutely real, connected with the space that is around it, and absolutely unreal, since in order to be percieved it has to pass through this virtual point which is over there."

- Michel Foucault, "of other spaces"