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Bio-Fi workshop @ ISEA2008

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sctv

on July 25, 2008

in art and conference

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Douglas Easterly at the Biofi workshop. Here he is holding an arduino and explaining how great microcontrollers are.

I am attending the Bio-Fi workshop at Republica Polytechnica in Singapore, run by Doug, Matt and Kathrine from swamp.nu

During the workshop we are learning about php and how it can be used for data scraping (e.g. maybe we want to get the pollution/particulate value for a LA highway from the pollution website).

What do we want to do with that?

Well……we can use it to activate an arduino board. The arduino can drive a simple transmitter that talks to a Bio-Fi module. This module is attached to a essential oil vapouriser…. Cool!

Di Ball has a picture of the back of my head at the workshop here.

12 hours and 8 time zones

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on July 24, 2008

in transientness, transit and travel

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Ah, Singapore, where the weather is balmy. Its my first Asian country. My fellow passenger David from www.xm-asia.com described it as Asia on Training wheels. It is certainly that. I was at the Sleepy Sams only an hour after getting off the plane, no queing for passport control, bag already on the luggage carousel, easy to obtain travel card, and quick. Compared to the hours lost in other countries post the plane, this was great. Now to tell my body that it is not 1.30 in the afternoon. So now off to find some food…probably Malaysian.

In transition

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sctv

on July 23, 2008

in art and conference

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I take up the nomadic art/researcher mode today. Leave sunny Newcastle (yes its actually sunny!) travel down to london to catch a plane to Singapore for the Inter-Society for Electronic Arts(ISEA) conference. In the nature of these events I will cross paths with researchers/practitioners/curators from Lancaster(imaginationLancaster), Manchester(Cornerhouse&Futuresonic), Sunderland(Crumb) and Newcastle(Culturelab).

There will be a large contingent of Australians too. Compared to Europe, Australia and Singapore are practically next door.

What I am looking forward to are the discussions by new media networks and platforms for collaboration between arts and other fields of inquiry. It is not that art has the sole role of making work about social worries, environment or addressing aesthetics, but it is disenginious to say that it has none.

One project that inspires me is Luminous Green, initiated by Fo.am. It asks what are the possibilities and realities of using technology and know-how to envision a luminous green future rather than a dull grey one(this article is interesting on a factor 4-10fold reduce in the use of resources.

I will be talking about locative games in my paper Location! Location? Location!! (10am Nanyang Technological University B1-3 27th July 2008) These are games/experiences that have a sense of place, may use technology like GPS, mobile phones), what it promises and what the reality is.

This activity is supported by the National Lotterry through the Arts Council England Grant for the Arts (hence the logo).

Asides

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some notes on Arduino

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Brief notes for my Arduino session at BarcampSheffield.

Arduino

What is it?

microntroller

What does it do?

interface to other devices (temp sensors, gps, ethernet, i2c motors etc)

Why would I want one?

for solving problems or making project….. some examples

robotics

using servos and sensors

wearable

embedded wearable electronics using lillypad

toyhacking

Is it hard to use?

it has a gentle learning curve and lots of resources online

learning by doing

Where do I get one?

come in a variety of versions from very small (wearable) to large(for controlling RepRap, a rapid prototyper)

arduino

arduino.cc / tinker.it

arduino clones

freeduino nuelectronics.com

seeduino seed electronics

lillypad and arduino pro

sparkfun

What have you done with it?

artwork

LightResponsiveDevices http://transitlab.org/2008/11/15/light-responsive-objects-using-arduino/

sound

Auduino - granulator using code from http://code.google.com/p/tinkerit/wiki/Auduino

others

webserver that posts environmental data or energy consumption

http://www.pachube.com/users/ni/feeds

wiimote controlled RGB led

http://www.coldclimate.co.uk/2008/04/28/wiimote-arduino-ibook-leds-yay/

Learning Resources

Arduino

http://www.arduino.cc/

Freeduino Database

http://www.freeduino.org/

ITP physical computing

http://itpa.nyu.edu/physcomp/Main/HomePage

LadyAda

http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/index.html

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non-existential angst
text reads: Mysterious OBJECT, Crisis?! hell i never even had an identity (0)

EEEpc and the removable media
I have a reoccurring trouble with the removable media, sometimes it says that I don’t have permission to write to the internal card reader or anything removable. The problem is that the /media/ directory has disappeared, you need to go into the comand line/terminal and recreate the directory sudo mkdir /media/ should work if you are in the top directory. I also had a problem where the shortcut to the internal media was corrupted and was showing an old state. To get rid of this, take out the card, and delete the shortcut, it will get recreated when you put the card back. (0)

Eggpass
Eggpass Lo-fi social networking. Rosanne Marshack and Richard Valentin “On Augmented Reality-Enabled Social Network Traces of Pratitya-samutpada (Interdependence)” were tracing their social network with 12 black eggs. These eggs were simple to make, nice to hold, but at some point the paths stopped. The participants had become too attached, the eggs became objects of affection and didn’t go any further. (0)

ISEA - Aceti mediated virtual visions
abstract Aceti and collaborators are developing a technology that can look at how virtual reality affect emotions. It is his goal to get to an experiential idea of how to affect emotions. He is actually trying to measure the responses, eeg, perspiration, etc, the reaction. This is quite a powerful idea, but one that comes into all artworks, but I don’t think it has actually been done for art at a quantitative way. (0)

Ping
In the PING, an alternate reality of control (Eelco Wagenaar, Arjan Scherpenisse) talk (abstract here). It was exhibited at mediamatic amongst others. Games are about fun rather than winning. They have made a simple ping game, simple in technology, but not content. The structure is two pingpong ball throwing devices and two players, two screens, and a small bit of software. (1)

12 hours and 8 time zones
Ah, Singapore, where the weather is balmy. Its my first Asian country. My fellow passenger David from www.xm-asia.com described it as Asia on Training wheels. It is certainly that. I was at the Sleepy Sams only an hour after getting off the plane, no queing for passport control, bag already on the luggage carousel, easy to obtain travel card, and quick. Compared to the hours lost in other countries post the plane, this was great. Now to tell my body that it is not 1.30 in the afternoon. So now off to find some food…probably Malaysian. (0)

syntax highlighting of arduino code in jedit

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My eeepc has a small screen which some programs don’t handle well. The arduino programming environment (the same as processing) doesn’t always handle it very well (like having the scroll bar disappear occasionally). However, it is possible to use an external editor. Personally, I like jedit and its code highlighting. Problem is that it dosen’t recognise the extension *.pde as a c-like style. More... (0)

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