July 2011
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May 2011
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March 2011
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Nice idea…
Sadly though I doubt the effect would last if this was used in bins all around the world. Novelty factor is certainly fun, but it does wear off. Still, engineering being applied to make the things around us more interactive and fun can certainly change our behaviour.
tomeparker:
How do you get people to use public bins? With some electronics and ingenuity this is the answer.
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February 2011
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December 2010
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Illuminatrix Live Wallpaper
So the Illuminatrix went to the London 2010 Decompression party a couple of weeks ago at the Cable club. A fantastic time was had by all, and we got to meet some of the people who’d contributed to the animations.
One of our friends also provided a really great idea which got stuck in my head so simply had to be executed. He’d suggested that we link up all the online animations with an...
October 2010
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Its been a while since I updated here. Since my last post I devoted a huge amount of time to getting the LED Driver project I posted about working.
We decided to call it the Illuminatrix and opened it up to animations created by the public (you can still add your own using the editor on the website). We managed to get the whole thing working and out on the playa by the Tuesday evening. It was...
June 2010
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I love this little scale model. I should probably prototype something similar myself to begin programming our 16x16 RGB matrix.
carbonworkshop:
I put this mini-booth together in order to start programming interactions for our Burning Man installation “Excellent Adventure” while the actual PCBs are being fabricated. The scale figure of me was actually something I made back in college for a...
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May 2010
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I’ve been hard at work on CircuitBee….but we have something to show for it at least!
circuitbee:
We’ve been moving steadily along with implementation, so we thought we’d show you some of our progress.
Above is an embedded view of one of our first symbols an Operational Amplifier symbol built by one of our helpful beta testers using our current version of the Symbol Editor.
This...
April 2010
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March 2010
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Digging the style of this video by the Tiger Lillies
The first thing we all need to know about information online is how to detect...
– Howard Rheingold on crap detection found via MathPunk
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…you have to wait for the damn things to boot up, just appalling designs....
– Sir Clive Sinclair on modern computers
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Love the sounds this guy got from a few bulbs and contact mics - wouldn’t call it an instrument though, but its a great ‘sound making thing’.
More from him on his flickr set.
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Byrne’s Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn...
– Robert Byrne
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