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The final projects for my Fundamentals of Physical Computing class at SVA’s Interaction Design MFA program are now all posted online. (You can also view the documentation from their labs for this foundation class.) They were a great group of students and I’m looking forward to seeing all the interactive magic they’ll create going forward. […]

People ask a lot, so here’s the ZTerm settings that work well for me. The screen I skipped have no impact on what we’re usually doing. The last screenshot shows how to save the settings. Yes for some reason they put it on the Dial menu. Be sure to pick the appropriate serial port. Holding

On August 24th, the current ITP community will embark on another 4-in-4 event, every participant creating four different creative projects in four days. Each day’s project will be crafted, named, documented and shared publicly in just one spin of the globe. As an instigator of this madness, I just launched a collection of information for

Congratulations to my students on some excellent achievements in our summer Sociable Objects Workshop at ITP. They created a full-floor permanent mesh network in a single day, then used it to concoct a toilet-activated display fountain for water conservation over a mere weekend. In the last weeks of class these hotshots produced five final projects

?????? My presentation for this year’s New York City BarCamp was Fog of Bar, a hands-on workshop in the creation of Dry Ice Martinis. BarCamp is an tech un-conference and had nothing whatsoever to do with bars until I got on the case. We were able to prepare about forty dry ice “martinys” along with a full-size

Nick Hardeman at Parsons put my clock code in a monster. His sun-bringing Morning Monster is awfully cute, but I’m still suspicious that something nefarious might be lurking behind those button eyes… He’s got a video of it serving up sunshine.

I was recently photographed and “grilled” by ComputerWorld’s Sara Forrest. Her article was published today, complete with my appreciation for Jimmy Carbone’s restaurant, the Inuit people and tomato seeds. My thoughts about sociable objects, GroundedPower, mesh networking and reconnecting to nature can be read online here: The Grill: NYU’s Rob Faludi wants your toaster to befriend

The XBee Terminal Max is an improved version of the original XBee Terminal for Processing that features a much bigger screen, scrolling text areas, interactive serial port management and helpful reminder messages. Thanks to Max Whitney for generating many of the improvements and Tom Igoe for the original code.

NYC Resistor is offering our Wireless Wearables class again on May 3rd. The last one sold out pretty quickly, so  if you want to join us for an intensive afternoon of sew-on radio fun, it’s a good idea to beat the ninjas and sign up early.

Gave a talk (more of a conversation really) about Smart Energy and What Lies Ahead at ETech, the Emerging Technology Conference in San Jose last week. Slides for the online casinotalk are online. Also gave a workshop called Socializing Stuff about wireless objects that was a hands-on introduction to 802.15.4 and ZigBee radios. Wrapped it