The Arduino system offers an easy and open-source method for programming microcontrollers. Normally this means using a serial cable or USB cable attached directly to the microcontroller project. But what if your project is floating in a weather balloon, glued to the bottom of a swimming pool or baked in a loaf of bread? It […]

We have photos from our Australia trip online now.

MaxStream sells several Development Kits that include interface boards and cables for loading firmware upgrades. These interface boards will not connect directly to an XBee that has been soldered to a breakout board, and are rather costly if your only purpose is to upgrade the firmware. My XBee Firmware Upgrade example demonstrates how to build

Both BlueWay, the Bluetooth people tracking system and Sketch & Share, the interactive networked drawing tool, were presented in ITP’s Spring Show for 2006. Sketch & Share was featured in Pixelsumo and BlueWay got plugged in Cool Hunting and on the blog Pasta & Vinegar. A woman I talked to was very excited about using

Thesis Genius is a follow-up to my Social Genius name-learning game. Every year, graduating ITP students deliver their Masters thesis during Thesis Week. The Thesis Genius game created a entertaining method for learning and remembering which student worked on which thesis project. It was installed on a plasma screen in the lobby for several weeks

Pixelsumo wrote about Sketch & Share today. “Pixelsumo is a site devoted to sonic art, audiovisual fusion, physical interaction, open source technologies, hacking video game culture, responsive environments & installations.“

Here’s a copy of all of our BlueWay final presentation materials from Interaction Design class: Experience Brief Presentation including three different map options Kiosk in Flash Processing code in progress for BlueWay display Both the kiosk and the display will undergo significant changes before the show. Kiosk steps will be reduced to fewer screens, while

Above is a system diagram for BlueWay, the Bluetooth presence detection system that we are building for the ITP Spring Show. There will be a total of six sensor modules which pass Bluetooth discovery information generated by a BlueSMiRF radio to an ZigBee mesh networking radio. All the remote ZigBee radios connect to one on

Here’s the final presentation that we gave to our User-centered Design class. We also presented a live-action demonstration of our ReadTV concept (Little Prince version). We made a video of the highlights of our user testing.

The Sketch & Share prototype is now built, tested and reprogrammed with better light control and fun sounds. We gave a final presentation for Mattel (PDF) | (Keynote) on Monday. The computer version was coded in Processing and the two communicate over the Internet using a Lantronix WiPort (visible in the guts of the toy