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HistoryLines
HistoryLines: Visualising a Residential Community’s Migrational History, Memory and Shared Experiences In the HistoryLines project from 2007, we followed the idea of Digital Storytelling. HistoryLines...
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CityFlocks
I designed and developed CityFlocks as a project that formed part of my final thesis for the Dipl.-Medieninf. (MCompSc) degree in 2007 at LMU, Munich. CityFlocks: Designing Social Navigation for Urban...
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TokTok
TokTok was created as part of the Center Venture 2008 student course at CDTM. The idea of the Center Venture course is to develop an innovative digital product from the initial idea to product launch...
View ArticleHow to publish on a Facebook wall using Graph API / PHP
I was working on a project recently (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy5r8Lsm-y0) and the aim was to publish sensor data coming from an arduino on a user’s facebook wall. I found this tutorial...
View Article3D projection mapping beyond arts and performance
Tools such as Madmapper (http://www.madmapper.com) or vvvv (http://vvvv.org/) provide easy ways to project and map digital content on real world objects. There are some famous examples on YouTube...
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How to make EL-wire blink?
EL-wire uses very low power and has become popular for wearable computing projects, e.g. heartbeat jacket http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/130 or speed jacket...
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How to wirelessly transmit analog signals using the Arduino XBee API?
Setting up XBees as a wireless extension of the Serial output is quite straightforward. However, for more complicated communication patterns you might need to use the XBee in API mode. For Arduino...
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Processing: How to create real-time info-graphics with sensor data from Pachube?
Processing is a simple programming language to create interactive graphics and visualisations. In contrast to photoshop, gimp, omnigraffle, etc. the big benefit of Processing is that it makes it very...
View ArticleLibraryhack: Towards new ways of engaging public library visitors with...
The “Glorious Image Viewer” …is an interactive 3D projection image viewer. The system polls archived pictures from the State Library of Queensland’s database, maps and projects them on the physical...
View ArticleLight painting WiFi: What’s the equivalent for capturing social activities in...
Light painting is a popular photographic technique to capture the movement of light in time and space. The light painting group on Flickr illustrates spectacular images created with this technique. I...
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Social Media meets Architecture: Designing Ambient Media for Public Libraries
Aims and Background In the digital information age of the 21st century, public libraries as physical places have been challenged. If all knowledge and information is available online, why would people...
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How to build a Mobile RFID-Reader: ID-12 + XBee + Arduino
I am working on a project at the moment that needs a mobile RFID station, i.e. an RFID reader that wirelessly transmits the IDs of the cards and objects that it scans to a receiver station (in this...
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Participatory Action Design Research
I wrote an article last year with my colleague John Venable on “Participatory Action Design Research” (PADR), which just got published here. We describe PADR as a method to better involve users in the...
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Ambient Bugs – Physical Notifications about Online Events
At Hack The Evening we’ve been working on the Ambient Bugs project; ambient bugs that live in Bay 7, electronically chirping and glowing in response to tweets about The Edge (@slqedge, #slqedge) and...
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High Speed Photography Workshop with Arduino
This is a brief summary of the high speed photography workshop I held for the 2nd birthday bash at The Edge High Speed Photography… is a technique for taking pictures of phenomena that are usually too...
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Grow Wild: An Interactive, Proximity Sensitive Sign
Christian Duell (@whitelightau), a friend of mine, was part of a Green Nation / sustainable living exhibition. He designed a huge “Grow Wild” sign with letters that grew out of moss. The sign is made...
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Getting started with Laser Cutting
Here are some links that helped me get started with laser cutting. I was particularly interested in patterns to design 3D objects from 2D shapes, and the workflow for exporting a 3D model to...
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Getting started with a Thermal Printer
Thermal pinters have been around for a while. Everytime you go to the local supermarket or gas station, the printout of the receipt is usually from a thermal printer. It’s a quick, easy and cheap...
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SNARC: A Networked RFID Controller
I just got my hands on a first prototype version of the SNARC (Simple NetworkAble RFID Controller) designed by Lawrence “Lemming” Dixon at the Hackerspace Brisbane (HSBNE). SNARC provides a simple...
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On Design Methodology – Participatory Action Design Research
The philosophy of technology is to design and develop tools that make human tasks easier to accomplish. A hammer – if regarded as a piece of technology – is designed to make it easier to nail something...
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