K3 – PROTOTYPING SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT
– March 28th, 2011
During the last year Tony Olsson has been teaching the Physical Prototyping courses at K3 – The School of Arts and Communication, at Malmo University, Sweden. My former student and now colleague is making a terrific job in introducing the students to design concepts and how to materialize them. This year’s brief invited the course participants to research new ways of visualizing data in physical ways. If you happen to be close to Malmo, feel free to pass by the show this Wednesday afternoon. Here the invitation:
PP1 2011Its that time of year again. The sun is shining, the flowers a slowly waking up and it is time for the annual Physical Prototyping 1 final show. This year the first year students at the Interaction Design course at k3 have been tackling the topic of Physical Data Visualization. On Wednesday 30/3 at 16.00-19.00 they open up the doors at Malmö Högskola and will bring you the latest in novel human computer interaction and data visualization.So join the data flow to Östra Varvsgatan 11 (Karanen Bulding) and partake in this one day only exhibition.where?: Östra Varvsgatan 11, C floor infront of the boat.when?: Wednesday 30/2 at 16.00-19.00
RFID-BASED DISPENCER ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION: DID I ALREADY TAKE THIS PILL?
– March 25th, 2011
[Mark Fickett] shares a nice solution to keep track of pils and medecines his mother takes.
When taking her battery of medicines, my mother occasionally loses — or, lost — track of which ones she had already taken. This aims to keep track of what’s been taken (and how recently); and also to provide a night light, as long as it’s taking up an electrical outlet.
ARDUINO COMPUTER VISION WITH VIDEO EXPERIMENTER SHIELD
– March 24th, 2011
[Michael] posted some interesting uses of Nootropic’s latest shield, the Video Experimenter Shield, besed on a LM1881 video sync separator to detect the timing of the vertical and horizontal sync in a composite video signal. It’s one of the few examples of Arduino processing a live video signal, as previously seen with the Eye Shield (based on the same IC, but with no video out implemented). The image here is processed and sent out from the Arduino using a custom version of the TVoutLibrary. Wow.
The Video Experimenter shield can give your Arduino the gift of sight. In theVideo Frame Capture project, I showed how to capture images from a composite video source and display them on a TV. We can take this concept further by processing the contents of the captured image to implement object tracking and edge detection.The setup is the same as when capturing video frames: a video source like a camera is connected to the video input. The output select switch is set to “overlay”, and sync select jumper set to “video input”. Set the analog threshold potentiometer to the lowest setting.
Please have a look at the other examples, such as edge detection, and using the shield to Decoding Captioning Data inside the signal.
via [nootropicDesign], also [Video Experimenter Project Page]
LIBELIUM DEVELOPS SENSOR NETWORKS TO HELP JAPAN DETECT RADIATION
– March 24th, 2011
Arduino distributor Libelium is developing a new sensor board including a Geiger tube to detect alpha, beta and gamma radiation. The board is going to be releades open source.
Once the first prototype is finished it will be sent and tested in the Hackerspaceat Tokyo. This new sensor board will be compatible with both Waspmoteand Arduino platforms. The idea is double, on the one hand, with the Arduino platform people will be be able to have easily running their own detector at home; on the other hand, with the Waspmote platform authorities and will be able to deploy autonomous sensor networks to send the radiation levels from dangerous areas using ZigBee and GPRS technologies.
If you are interested and want to collaborate with this project please contact David Gascón, Libelium CTO here.
via [WSNblog]
GAMEBOY ROM BACKUPS USING AN ARDUINO
– March 23rd, 2011
[Alex] collects retro gaming consoles. One day while playing a SNES title, his save games got wiped when he powered off the system. It turned out that the battery inside the game cartridge got disconnected somehow, and it got him thinking. He decided he wanted to find a way to back up his save games from the cartridges for safe keeping.While cart readers exist, he says that they are hard to find nowadays, so he decided to construct his own using an Arduino. SNES cartridges are relatively complex, so he opted to focus on Gameboy cartridges for the time being. Before attempting to back up save games, he first chose to learn how to communicate with the cartridges in general, by reading the ROM.
via [HackADay]
INTERVIEW WITH DAVID CUARTIELLES ABOUT OPEN HARDWARE (IN SPANISH)
– March 21st, 2011
For the many spanish-speaking readers of the blog, an interview with David Cuartielles, explaining Arduino and its “silent revolution”:
Arduino es el Hardware Abierto —o Libre, como gusten— por excelencia yDavid Cuartielles su co-creador. Él, junto Massimo Banzi y un creciente grupo de hackers de la electrónica y el software han diseñado y construido no sólo un dispositivo físico con espíritu libre y abierto, también han guiado una gran comunidad de entusiastas en lo que Soraya Paniagua recién llamó una “revolución silenciosa”.
via [alt1040]
THE BODYSUIT AND THE SWEDISH CROWN PRINCESS
– March 18th, 2011
Last week, Victoria -the Swedish Crown Princess- and Daniel -her husband- came by Malmo University and visited the Medea Research Facility. There was a talk about New Media and the importance of the research made in the field in order to identify new business opportunities, as well as promote freedom of speech. There were four projects presented to the Royal couple, all coming from different initiatives related to the activities at Medea.
(c) 2010 by Svenskdam, Princess Victoria playing with an Arduino enabled suit
One of the projects, made by PhD candidate Mads Hobye, is a BodySuit he made for Burning Man that measures body resistance and responds with interesting sound patterns. It becomes some sort of communication enhancer. The BodySuit was prototyped using an Arduino, two sets of headphones, some LEDs and a lot of creativity. I know the code he used for generating the sound was made by a friend of his … you should try to get that code, it is worth every byte.
BUILD “AN INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT FOR ABOUT $30″ WITH ARDUINO, ONLINE NYT WORD
– March 17th, 2011
[Nick Bilton] published an article about Arduino and how it influenced Interaction Design, with a close look about Exhibition Design.
“The Arduino has changed the way we can create and build exhibits,” said Hélène Alonso, director of interactive exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. “In the past, we would have used 50 percent of our budget on computers that have now been replaced with the simplicity of the Arduino.”A current exhibit at the museum called “Brain: The Inside Story,” uses an Arduino to calculate a person’s accuracy and brain power while tracing the shape of a star. Another exhibit at the museum lets people see the relationship of the weights of some dinosaurs in relation to those of humans.For artists and designers, one of the biggest draws of the Arduino is the cost. A single Arduino, which can be used to control a number of aspects of a museum installation, costs just $30. Once an artist has a chip, inexpensive sensors can be added to make the device sentient.
via [NYT Online]
ARDUINO AND NANONOTE PUT TOGETHER
– March 14th, 2011
David Reyes, aka Tuxbrain, one of the Arduino distributors in Spain, has just brought to life one of the coolest hacks I have seen for some time. He managed to reflash Arduino Uno from a Ben NanoNote. He has implemented a text-based IDE that can reflash the boards directly from the NanoNote without using external power. If you want to have a device to reprogram your ATmega processors without having to bring your computer around, this can be a great solution. Just remember, this is an advanced hack, you should be familiar to the use of CLI (Command Line Interface), but David has promised taking a look at Qt-creator and put together a small text editor with uploading capabilities. Stay tuned at Tuxbrain’s development website!
(c) 2011 Picture courtesy of Tuxbrain
On Tuxbrain, thanks to the Qi-Hardware , AVRFreaks communities and to the little UBB board, we have successfully flash an Arduino board from Ben NanoNote without need of external power, directly connecting a cable from the NanoNote 8:10 bay to the ICSP header on Arduino, also without need of bootloader in the Atmega328 chip, in fact NanoNote can flash the bootloaders, and in theory Nanonote can flash whatever avrdude compatible chip without need of any board (untested yet). Making the little Ben the first AVR microcontroller programmer in the world able to edit the source code, building it, listen music or play Supertux at same time, in same device, not bad for only 99€
MASTER OF ADVANCED STUDIES IN INTERACTION DESIGN IN LUGANO, SWITZERLAND
– March 14th, 2011
Arduino is partnering with SUPSI (the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland) to collaborate on the Master of Advanced Studies in Interaction Design:
Students applying for this program will attend courses on physical computing and interaction design held by co-founders of the Arduino project such as Massimo Banzi; furthermore, they will have the opportunity to develop the master thesis in collaboration with Arduino and spend a whole term working with the Arduino platform in order to create innovative projects.
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Students applying for this program will attend courses on physical computing and interaction design held by co-founders of the Arduino project such as Massimo Banzi; furthermore, they will have the opportunity to develop the master thesis in collaboration with Arduino and spend a whole term working with the Arduino platform in order to create innovative projects.
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