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This is all my year three posts, made into a word cloud.
Wordle takes a web page, looks for interesting words and makes it a bit more visually pleasing.
4.10.08
wordle
This is all my year three posts, made into a word cloud.
Wordle takes a web page, looks for interesting words and makes it a bit more visually pleasing.
CuteCircuit are awesome.
And they make awesome things.
Accessory Nerve is a sleeve that reacts to your phones signals. When you're getting an incoming call, pleats appear on the fabric. If you're a little busy you can just straighten out the sleeve, which will then trigger the phone to send a text message to the caller saying "I'll call you back later". A lot more subtle than getting your phone out.
This item is particularly ingenious. This is the hug shirt, which allows you to send a hug to a loved one using your phone. Sensors detect the touch, warmth and heart beat of the sender and recreate the sensation for the receiver. Bluetooth sends the hug signal from the phone to the top, and a java application called "hug me", reads the sensor data and recreates the hug.
Accessory Nerve is a sleeve that reacts to your phones signals. When you're getting an incoming call, pleats appear on the fabric. If you're a little busy you can just straighten out the sleeve, which will then trigger the phone to send a text message to the caller saying "I'll call you back later". A lot more subtle than getting your phone out.
This item is particularly ingenious. This is the hug shirt, which allows you to send a hug to a loved one using your phone. Sensors detect the touch, warmth and heart beat of the sender and recreate the sensation for the receiver. Bluetooth sends the hug signal from the phone to the top, and a java application called "hug me", reads the sensor data and recreates the hug.
wearing data feeds - News Knitter
RSS feeds make lovely warm jumpers.
Using 24 hours of news data feeds, News Knitter makes the daily political news into a lovely snuggly jumper. One piece of software receives the data and another analyzes the feeds and makes them into different patterns. The final product is then produced on a fully computerized knitting machine.
I think this is a very nice example of how to take the internet off screen. Although some people wouldn't really think of this as a digital product as there's no circuits or programming on the actual finished product, the information used to create the pattern was gleamed from the internet, and software produced the patterns, making the jumper a product of the internet.
Using 24 hours of news data feeds, News Knitter makes the daily political news into a lovely snuggly jumper. One piece of software receives the data and another analyzes the feeds and makes them into different patterns. The final product is then produced on a fully computerized knitting machine.
I think this is a very nice example of how to take the internet off screen. Although some people wouldn't really think of this as a digital product as there's no circuits or programming on the actual finished product, the information used to create the pattern was gleamed from the internet, and software produced the patterns, making the jumper a product of the internet.
3.10.08
30.9.08
the sooper amazing wonderful plan.
of joy.
Last term I decided I was all interested in ubiquitous technology and wearable technology, and that I would like to make some. I have since realized that it could get quite complicated and possibly even a bit expensive on my lowly budget but I'm still going to give it a try. As I have no idea where to start, I started off by buying some books.
My hope is that by combining this one:
With this one:
(it may have the word "fashion" in the title, but it tells you how to make circuits with conductive thread, which makes it cool. and anyway, you should be in awe of my lovely laminate flooring.)
I can make a piece of potentially wearable technology that can communicate with other computers.
I think it all sounds rather magical. Here's a diagram of how i envision it all working:
A processing application on a website allows you to send information through the internet to the program on a computer with bluetooth, which then transmits a signal to the micro-controller on the device, which then does it's thing. I could do this with wifi and potentially get rid of the computer with bluetooth, but that would be so complicated it would make my head explode, and as this is my first attempt at doing this sort of thing I want to keep it as simple as possible.
Now I just need to look into the little bits and bobs that I need to get this working.
Last term I decided I was all interested in ubiquitous technology and wearable technology, and that I would like to make some. I have since realized that it could get quite complicated and possibly even a bit expensive on my lowly budget but I'm still going to give it a try. As I have no idea where to start, I started off by buying some books.
My hope is that by combining this one:
With this one:
(it may have the word "fashion" in the title, but it tells you how to make circuits with conductive thread, which makes it cool. and anyway, you should be in awe of my lovely laminate flooring.)
I can make a piece of potentially wearable technology that can communicate with other computers.
I think it all sounds rather magical. Here's a diagram of how i envision it all working:
A processing application on a website allows you to send information through the internet to the program on a computer with bluetooth, which then transmits a signal to the micro-controller on the device, which then does it's thing. I could do this with wifi and potentially get rid of the computer with bluetooth, but that would be so complicated it would make my head explode, and as this is my first attempt at doing this sort of thing I want to keep it as simple as possible.
Now I just need to look into the little bits and bobs that I need to get this working.
15.9.08
18.8.08
grab it and run
which is what i did.
me and ben with D&AD guy at the D&AD awards.
picking up second prize for the solar century project.
for those that don't know me i'm the one looking comfortable in the middle.
LOL.
you can see the rest of the night here.
and yes i will create a new blogger template soon.
24.6.08
to my friends...
i say this. i will not play WOW, but i might play this:
'Warcraft' Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing 'Warcraft'
'Warcraft' Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing 'Warcraft'
22.6.08
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