Post-it notes that look like blades of grass
These are beautiful, and I want them. via BoingBoing
Walking Papers
Cool movement back and forth between physical and digital: \"Print maps, draw on them, scan them back in, and help OpenStreetMap...\"
Introduction to Soft Circuits
Take a workshop with me and learn to make your own cuff bracelet with LEDs, conductive thread, and industrial felt. No sewing or electronics experience necessary. All materials provided. November 14, 2009 at the Pittsburgh Hacker Space.
todbot blog » Bionic Arduino – Introduction to Microcontrollers with Arduino
Terrific resource with detailed .pdfs and downloadable Arduino and Processing sketches from a four-class introduction to microcontroller programming, sensing the physical world and making motion. Projects are built with solderless breadboards, and only a little programming knowledge is assumed. Can't wait to dive deeper into this - wish I'd been in the right place to take the course when it was offered in 2007. (via dailyduino.com)
Learning from Lombardi | Ben Fry
Ben Fry on the art of Mark Lombardi, narrative network structures, and data visualization and design. Don't miss this short essay if you are interested in information aesthetics or visual storytelling.
BLDGBLOG: Book of Space
I think this book would be utterly amazing in real life - the photos alone are turning my mind inside out.
Podcamp Pittsburgh Cast: G20 Roundtable | Pittsburgh Podcamp
I was one of the guests at this virtual roundtable, speaking about social media and the coming G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh.
TEDTalks - Spreadsheet
Amazing short presentations and performances: art, science, design, technology, and culture - are offered at the annual TED conference. The conference is very very expensive, but the video recordings of the talks are free. Here's an automatically updated spreadsheet listing all of the videos, as they become available online.
Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com
I've been watching this video and showing it to people since March, when it was first available online. The TED site says, \"This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment.\" This is exciting stuff, because relative to other new technologies it is not very expensive, and because it brings the power of computing into new contexts and offers profoundly different spaces/means for interacting with it. And it's goofily elegant, to boot. You'll laugh, and you'll want one.
Felted Signal Processing - a set on Flickr
A graduate student is designing conductive wool felt for analog signal processing.
Electronics and Soft Circuits: Flickr Collection: DIY
Image sets from the amazing Plusea, who is exploring the DIY side of wearable computing. Here she shows home made flex sensors, tilt sensors, touch sensors with conductive thread and other materials, and much more. Lots of ideas and possibilities here.
HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT
More on wearable technology and DIY. This is a blog with tutorials, reference materials, project demonstrations... and a jumping off point for further exploration.
Open Softwear - Fashionable prototyping and wearable computing using the Arduino
An illustrated, downloadable 104-page book in .pdf format \"about fashion and technology. More precisely it is a book about Arduino boards, conductive fabric, resistive thread, soft buttons, LEDs, and some other things,\" write the authors, T. Olsson, D. Gaetano, J. Odhner, and S. Wiklund. I've just begun to read it and it looks like a terrific resource for exploring physical computing. (via MAKE)
NETLab Toolkit - NETLab
This looks very very promising. I know I want to be working with Lilypad and XBee this summer - I think this toolkit may make it much easier to play and prototype interactive art projects. From a quick look, I think I'll be able to build on my experience with Processing and with Flash. Can't wait to explore it further.
KidWash 2 : PVC Sprinkler Water Toy
This looks like a great walk-through/ride-through water mister. We are in the middle of a cool and damp spell - but as soon as it gets hot again, I'm heading to the hardware store for PVC pipe, connectors, and irrigation mister jets. Total cost of this project is estimated at < $30. Total fun looks unlimited. Seems easy enough for the kids to do most of the building, too. A really clear and appealing how-to guide from instructables.com.