Author: rudiknoops
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LilyPad Arduino: e-textile construction kit
Reading again about the Arduino Lilypad a few days ago, I started imagining what you could do with this miniature Physical Computing platform. Leah Buechley – developer of the LilyPad – describes the LilyPad Arduino as “a set of sewable electronic components that let you build your own soft, interactive fashion.” You could consider it…
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Into Physical Computing
One of the installations I’m currently building for the museum M in Leuven, is a large interactive wall, consisting of 4 projections next to eachother. The interaction is being triggered by detection of presence or movement. The content is built around 12 objects from the archeology collection. Each object or artefact generates an associative stream…
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Reading “SOFTWARE TAKES COMMAND”
Lev Manovich publishes his latest book “Software Takes Command” on-line – I’m discussing the November 20, 2008 version – and he is open to suggestions for cover art, or illustrations. Nice idea, on-line pre-publishing, and it will not keep me from bying a print copy when the final version will be available. 😉 With this…
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motion tracking in processing
I’m currently building a playful Processing application for the pre-opening of the new Media & Design Academy building at C-Mine. The pre-opening is scheduled for the weekend of april 25-26 2009. So I have quite some time left to finetune the draft version I have now. Concept = The mirrored video image of people passing…
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About this blog
I was introduced to Lewis Caroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark” years ago. It has since remained one of my favorite metaphors to describe what research is, could or should be. An improbable crew sets forth on an impossible voyage to find an inconceivable creature, using a blank sheet of paper as a map. (Partly…
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