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.

nuvver web layout idea

tell me what you think.

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.

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'

friggin hell.

Weird Fishes: Arpeggi from flight404 on Vimeo.

why can't i do that?

opening night...

group collaboration:

not that impressed, at all:

my piece set up and working:

whilst they play war...

i will start working on next years project.
some of us don't get command and conquer.

...and i'm sure i'm meant to have a break at some point. *sigh*

LINKS!
*gosh*

blast theory
eyebeam
ARS Electronica
article on we love technology, as the site is currently down.
waldemeyer


books i need to remember:
responsive environments
4Dsocial
the fundamentals of digital art

i could note all this down somewhere or simply send myself an email but i'll only end up loosing it all.

NXTing.

mmm... dirty keyboard.
i have been playing more with the NXT brick, and lo and behold i have a video of my interactive piece in action:



it's reacting to luke making "pop" noises. and general discussion of the effects of a black hole.

i'm stalking your ass.

with this piece of AWESOME.



there's all these pleasing graphs, 60% of my visitors are on dirty PCs, and 40% are using dirty internet explorer, and two were on dirty dial-up. people spend an average of 33 seconds on here, someone stayed on for a whopping 1 minute 45 seconds!! i don't know what bounce rate is but there's a hell of a lot of it. the amount of visitors coming off google matches those coming off magnetic north. i've had 54 visitors, and most of them are noobs.

so yeah, i know you're there, and i know what version of flash you've got installed.
it's making me a bit power mad.

one can't help but think...

if only i was at this stage a few weeks ago, maybe everything would run more smoothly and i wouldn't be stressing my arse off.
but that's not how things have worked out so lets go on with it anyway.

i have now started playing with the Lego NXT brick, using it to input data from it's microphone via bluetooth to processing. it's working great and everyone sitting near me is enjoying having an excuse to make loud noises. i wanted to play with the NXT brick from week one but in hindsight it probably would have been a bit too complex at such an early stage, but it could have informed my ideas a bit more. i did go off on one a bit, as i was unsure of what code i would actually need to use but oh well. the important thing is i'm LEARNING!!

i've also been working on the actual images that will be showing off what the code does. i'm not the most skilled illustrator in the world so i've just embraced this fact and made them doodle-ish.

look:






after the doodling came the illustratoring. although i would have liked to have drawn all the paths myself, using my drawings as guides, i just don't have the time for that much faffage, so instead reverted to the old evil that is livetrace. i feel a bit dirty now but i have images to use. after some whinging someone who will remain un-named managed to persuade me into using livepaint which was PAP. made me waste precious, precious time. so i did most of the colouring in with paths...



tedious.
but it works.
illustrator is defiantly one of those programs i don't fully comprehend.