Interactive Lighting Workshop

January 11, 2009
by djdunc
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A second interactive lighting workshop is being held at Arup, organised by Tinker with presentations from Arup, UVA and Philips Lighting. The workshop will cover an intro to DMX control using Arduino, examples and stories from light installations by Arup, UVA and Tinker, insight into emerging technologies and products from

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Forcefield Interactive

January 5, 2009
by djdunc
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On Christmas Eve Forcefield Interactive went live with the addition of two sensor inputs to allow visitors to the exhibition to play with the light installation. A kiosk inside the space as well as facing the outside of the window on Fitzroy Street allowed visitors to put their Oyster card

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Forcefield

November 4, 2008
by djdunc
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A new lighting installation is up and running in Phase 2 at 8 Fitzroy Street. Worth taking a look if you get the chance.

Bop Making Sense of Space – Summary

September 3, 2008
by djdunc
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BOP – Making Sense of Space was a £1 million, two-year, multidisciplinary project, funded by the UK government’s Technology Strategy Board. It investigated how ubiquitous computing, using wireless sensor networks (WSN), could be used to create a better understanding of the creative workplace. The project ended in December last year

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H3 Interactive Lighting workshop

April 14, 2008
by djdunc
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We have been working with Tinker.it here in London in organising a few workshops around Arduino. The first is on Interactive Lighting and will involve a mix of presentations on current state of the art and building some simple protoypes. Guest talks include our own Francesco Anselmo, Massimo Banzi from

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Pervasive Computing at Arup

January 10, 2008
by djdunc
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The end of 2007 saw the final conference for the DTI Bop project. There has been a number of PR items around it including airtime on BBC Radio 5 (on the morning of the conference) and BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. It also appeared in Design Week. The move into

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Bop Conference – London

November 9, 2007
by djdunc
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Details of the Bop Creative Workplace conference are now available on the bop website. A pdf of the conference programme can be accessed directly. If you are interested in coming along contact myself. Friday 30th November 2007 Central Saint Martins Innovation University of the Arts London, Southampton Row, London WC1B

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H3 RFID workshop at Arup

October 15, 2007
by djdunc
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I’m wishing that I could attend all of this workshop but the best i can do is a bit at the start and the end…. H3: RFID is the second of a series of hardware hacking workshops in London organised by tinker.it. Massimo Banzi (Arduino founder www.arduino.cc) facilitates the event

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Bop project website

February 8, 2007
by djdunc
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The Bop project website has been updated to include more of a public overview of what we are upto. If you have any queries about the project then please get in touch. We are past half way so it should be all downhill from here…

bop_event_2

January 24, 2007
by djdunc
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The second public workshop of the DTI project Arup are leading. Drop me a line if you want to attend…

2006_1015_1021_light_temp_colour

January 23, 2007
by djdunc
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Starting to think about how to view the sensor network data at a macro level. This sample (one week) shows 20 nodes day by day. Temperature on the y axis (and colour), time on x, alpha level showing amount of light.