The shopping cart has been added to the Drivers of Change 2006 card site so you can now buy them online…
Another thing blogs and open source software have in common is that they’re often made by people working at home. That may not seem surprising. But it should be. It’s the architectural equivalent of a home-made aircraft shooting down an F-18. Companies spend millions to build office buildings for a
Want to find images on Flickr? Just sketch the kind of image you want on retievr. Here is my effort to find trees in a field with blue skies and green grass.
Working for experimental company Cloud9, James Clar is building a working prototype for a model of the Habitat Hotel, near Barcelona. He says: It is a hotel with a light mesh that wraps the whole building. The light mesh has sensors that will read the daylight sun amplitude and then
Two great examples of persistence of vision. One is at the planned public library in Minneapolis where LED’s on the outside of the lift reveal letter by letter words describing the titles of books being checked out. The second came via Make magazine – one for the kids – SpokePOV –
From Arup Bike User Group – gmap-pedometer. You can plot routes, work out distances and even get plots of elevation along the route – great for cycling.
Came across mashups of earth lights on google maps and Moon maps showing moon landings – excellent. On the former i was amazed to see the comparison of light levels in Middlesbrough and the NE compared to London and SE.
One to consider if you don’t want the bundled apps that come with crossbow networks.
Another cool example of people visualising energy usage but also developing the theme of ambient devices…. [from information aesthetics]
This technology has been around for 30 years (Mecanum wheel, Wikipedia) or so but this is the first time I have seen it in action. The movie is much more compelling than an image or sketch of the concept. [from – Signal vs. Noise by 37signals]
Crossbow – we are using this product at Arup – the Mica2, Mica2 dot and more recently the Micaz. Gateways include the MIB510 (with USB adapter) and the MIB600 ethernet gateway. Sensor boards include the MTS300 and 310’s, the MTS420 and the MDA500. We also have the Moteworks software. Whilst