Posts Tagged ‘Projects’
Designing Nature and Time into the Web
January 3, 2011
This past month was spent planning and designing a web application for people to take advantage of the enormous amount of space dedicated to outdoor play in Ottawa. One of my first impressions when I moved to this city was how easy it was to go from busy city streets to quiet parks in a [...]
2011 | Art, Projects | Tags: Art, circular web, css, design, google maps, Javascript, natural web, open data, ottawa, outdoor play, porthole web page, Projects, spaces of play, time on the web, web applicationComments (1)
The Culture of Making
November 10, 2010
Over this past weekend 40 makers and a handful of volunteers gathered together in the nation’s capital, laden with gadgets and moded parts, cloth and paper, Arduino boards and LEDs, and brought the first Maker Faire to Canada. The makers came from all over Canada and the U.S.- some as far as 8 hours away [...]
2010 | Projects | Tags: art and tech, artengine, diy, electric fields festival, electronics, hacker, hackerspaces, hardware, innovation, maker, maker culture, maker faire, making, mini maker faire, open source, ottawa, ottawa maker faire, ottawa mini maker faire, ProjectsComments (4)
LED Acorn Lantern
September 26, 2010
I went for a bike ride through Gatineau Park with some friends yesterday and while we rested I was inspired by the large amount of acorns on the ground. An acorn is the perfect size to house an LED light and battery for a different take on LED Throwies developed by Graffiti Research Lab. I [...]
2010 | Projects | Tags: acorn light, DIY project, hacking nature, led, LED acorn lantern, LED acorn light, LED acorn throwie, LED lantern, LED throwie, ProjectsComments (0)
LED Origami Brooch And Thoughts On Foo Camp
June 30, 2010
Ah, Foo Camp. Over this past weekend hoards of thinkers, makers and doers descended on the gorgeous Xanadu of the O’Reilly Media headquarters in Sebastopol, CA. Invited by Tim O’Reilly to participate in a free-form weekend of focused and unfocused conversations and talks concerning current and emerging ventures in technology, it was a nerd’s paradise. [...]
2010 | Art | Tags: Art, foo, foocamp, led, led origami, origami, Other, papercraft, ProjectsComments (1)
HTML5 Game Pits Bjork Vs. Cthulhu
April 27, 2010
Over this past weekend my friend Darren Torpey and I ran the second in a series of game jams at the Sprout/DINO space in Somerville, MA. I had recently heard about Kesiev who created an open HTML5 game engine called Akihabara and wanted to try it out since we only had 23 hours to create [...]
2010 | Projects | Tags: akihabara, akihabara game engine, art game, bjork, cthulhu, HTML5, HTML5 game, Javascript, Projects, SHUMPComments (5)
Using Physical Objects to Interface with the iPad
April 3, 2010
Over this past week my partners and I at DINO Interactive Studios have developed an iPad application that allows input from a specific grouping of ‘fingers’ from the bottom of three objects. When you place the object on the screen surface of the iPad, flowers and vines grow from underneath the object. This corresponds to [...]
2010 | Art, DINO, Projects | Tags: akina, Art, artistic interface, DINO, ipad, physical objects interface, physical ui, Projects, ui, uxComments (1)
DINO Game Jam
February 22, 2010
This weekend DINO Interactive Studios hosted a game jam and interactive project creation session at the Sprout space in Somerville that spanned both Saturday and Sunday. Our jam lasted 27 hours total and had 12 participants and teams either creating new games from scratch or reworking current games and adding new features. We had a [...]
2010 | Art, DINO, Projects | Tags: Art, collaborative, DINO, dino jam, game, game jam, interactive, ProjectsComments (0)
Giant Snail Take Over
February 21, 2010
This weekend DINO hosted a game jam and interactive project creation session that spanned both Saturday and Sunday. Typically the purpose of a game jam is for teams or lone creators to make a working project in either 24 or 48 hours. Sometimes there is a theme or things that you must incorporate into the [...]
2010 | Art, Projects | Tags: Art, giant snails, interactive, paper game, papercraft, ProjectsComments (0)
Interactive Paper Art
December 8, 2009
It’s been a while since I’ve worked on this but here are two examples of a simple way to integrate LED lights into a piece of art to change the story and engage the viewer with the 2-dimensional surface of the drawing. In Robodino Bond, pressing the dinosaur’s heart causes the robot’s electronic heart to [...]
2009 | Art, Projects | Tags: Art, interactive, LED art, papercraft, papertronics, ProjectsComments (0)
Ambient Text Mashup of Modest Mouse
November 22, 2009
Processing is amazing. I can’t say enough good things about an open source intuitive language built to allow *everyone* easy access to a wide array of tools and resources made for developing visual programs and interactive fun. This weekend I took part in Music Hack Day at the Microsoft Startup Labs in Cambridge and built [...]
2009 | Art, Projects | Tags: Art, collaborative, modest mouse, music hackday, processing, Projects, text visualizationComments (3)
Levels of ‘stashe
November 18, 2009
This was a fun project- the mustache man below is the main character in a game created in Processing by my friends and I over this past weekend. The basic premise to the game is that you play the role of a newspaper editor trying to maintain a balanced coverage of news stories coming through [...]
2009 | Art, DINO, Projects | Tags: Art, DINO, game art, interactive, processing, Projects, spriteComments (0)
…and DINO is born.
August 4, 2009
On or around April 27th, David Nunez, Aaron Waychoff and I decided to build a space to inspire people to make, do and learn. It’s main focus is to build the community of hackers & makers in Boston and give people the support and knowledge they need to create and share their projects and ideas. [...]
2009 | DINO, Projects | Tags: DINO, petridish, Projects, sproutComments (1)
A Very Tiny Sound Pushpin
June 29, 2009
Lesson learned: Do not post a how to on a ‘sound-generating’ pushpin before checking that it consistently generates said sound. In this case, it moves [which is nice] and makes some sound [which is nice] but when it hits something in it’s way it stops [which is not so nice]. The micro vibration motor is [...]
2009 | Projects | Tags: Projects, sound pushpin, tiny sound deviceComments (0)
The Awesome Foundation
June 25, 2009
In the name of all that is glorious we bring you: The Awesome Foundation. What is this you ask? It’s a monthly no-strings micro-grant given to people making awesome things. Period. Who is giving away this crazy amazing free money? David Nunez (Dorkbot Boston) Reed Sturtevant (Director, Microsoft Startup Labs) Emily Daniels (Dorkbot Boston) Keith Hopper [...]
2009 | Awesome Foundation, Projects | Tags: Awesome Foundation, collaborative good, philanthropy, ProjectsComments (0)
What is the smallest unit of funk?
June 24, 2009
Tonight I went to an event put on by my friend Josh Rosenstock at MassArt called the Shrine to the Funky Drummer: an experimental documentary/video mixtape/mashup he had been working on as artist in research at the Berkwick. It was a great piece and it got me thinking to create an interactive James Brown polyester [...]
2009 | Projects | Tags: ideas, interactive, Projects, wearable technologyComments (2)
Sound-generating Pushpin
June 7, 2009
After BYOR night I started experimenting and forming tiny sound sculptures built on the head of a pushpin- the idea came from the cheap accessibility of making LED Throwies and the random fun that comes with harmless graffiti. I took a mini pager motor, a 3 volt battery, some aluminum foil and wire, the pin and of course [...]
2009 | Projects | Tags: Projects, sound pushpin, tiny sound deviceComments (0)
It’s Alive!
May 24, 2009
Three 9 volt batteries later, the little pump I got at the MIT swap is projectile throwing soon-to-be tears into crybot’s belly. Yesssss!!
2009 | Projects | Tags: crybot, emotional robots, Projects, robotComments (0)
Ode To An Abhorrent Water Pump
May 16, 2009
What you see here is a half-hacked mini aquarium water pump ‘clamped’ to my desk with duck tape and its suction feet helpless to the impending battle bt. Dremel and weird green resin/plastic casing. What you do not see is my look of utter disgust and defeat while I came to grips with the fact [...]
2009 | Projects | Tags: crybot, emotional robots, Projects, robotComments (1)
Sound Throwie
May 13, 2009
Modeled after the LED throwie, this device is easily inserted into walls/porous surfaces with it’s pin backing and a mini-pager motor runs it’s rasping aluminum foil wings as it generates tiny brushing sounds.
2009 | Projects | Tags: ideas, Projects, sound art, tiny sound deviceComments (0)
Sentient Arduino
May 13, 2009
Some things are too easy- I googled Arduino code for PIR sensor, clicked the first on the list, ctrl c + ctrl v’d and whamo- a functioning sensing program.
