Researching Tactile Electronics

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MAKE ME ECLECTIC!

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The Reconfigurable House by Usman Haque & Adam Somlai-Fischer with the Reorient team. "The Reconfigurable House is an environment constructed from thousands of low tech components that can be "reconfigured" by its occupants. Any sensor/actuator can be connected to any other sensor/actuator -- it is the occupants of the house who determine the systems that run inside it. Constructed at ICC in Tokyo, Japan, and open to the public from April 2007 - March 2008, the project was a challenge to ubiquitous computing "smart homes", which are based on the idea that technology should be invisible to prevent DIY. Smart homes actually aren't very smart simply because they are pre-wired according to algorithms and decisions made by designers of the systems, rather than the people who occupy the houses. In contrast to such homes, which are not able to adapt structurally over time, the many sensors and actuators of Reconfigurable House can be reconnected endlessly as people change their minds so that the House can take on completely new behaviours. " Reconfigurable house was built with thousands of hacked toys and gadgets. It was controlled using Arduino and Processing, and configured by members of the public, if the house was not interacted with it became bored and started to reconfigure itself. Haque and Somlai-Fischer have collaborated on a number of projects, often involving low-tech technologies and interaction. Links Reconfigurable House http://www.haque.co.uk/reconfigurablehouse.php http://house.propositions.org.uk/ Lowtech Sensors and Actuators Site detailing an interesting project about low-tech sensors and actuators, with downloadable resources. http://lowtech.propositions.org.uk/ Usman Haque's Website http://www.haque.co.uk/ Adam Somlai-Fischer's Website http://www.aether.hu/

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Philip Beesley : Radiant Soil / Espace Fondation EDF Extract from an interview with artist and architect Philip Beesley about his work as in the exhibition "Alive, new design frontiers" at the Foundation EDF in Paris. Curator : Carole Collet Credits : Vincent Royer - Open Up Studio

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Philip Beesley - Hylozoic Ground Philip Beesley talking about his installation Hylozoic Ground at the Canadian Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition. Philip is an architect and a professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. He leads a design studio who describe their work on their website: "The studio’s design methods combine the durable crafts of heavy machining and building with advanced digital visualization, industrial design, digital prototyping, and mechatronics engineering. Sculptural work in the past three decades has focused on immersive textile environments, landscape installations and intricate geometric structures. The most recent generations of these works feature interactive lighting systems and kinetic mechanisms that use dense arrays of microprocessors and sensors. Chemical protocell metabolisms are in the early stages of development within many of these environments. These works contemplate the ability of an environment to be near-living, to stimulate intimate evocations of compassion with viewers through artificial intelligence and mechanical empathy. The conceptual roots of this work lie in 'hylozoism', the ancient belief that all matter has life." Philip Beesley's website http://www.philipbeesleyarchitect.com/ Interview on VernissageTV - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v86B9Nz_LVU

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Remote Control Venus Fly Trap on MAKE: Using an Arduino to control a Venus Flytrap so it opens and closes on demand. I want to try this and explore the possibilities of hacking plants in other ways. Details on the project and how to make one can be found at: http://makezine.com/projects/make-39/rcflytrap/

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Oxygen Curtain. Mae Shaban

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Crystallizer

Delicate needle crystals grow in all directions inside a large translucent cylinder until a large needle star floats in the solution. On Sunday it dissolves. And on Monday it begins to grow again with former freshness.

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Random International - Rain Room, 2012 Shown at the Curve Gallery in the Barbican, London in 2012 "Rain Room is a hundred square metre field of falling water through which it is possible to walk, trusting that a path can be navigated, without being drenched in the process. As you progress through The Curve, the sound of water and a suggestion of moisture fill the air, before you are confronted by this carefully choreographed downpour that responds to your movements and presence." http://random-international.com/work/rainroom/ http://random-international.com/

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Dune by Studio Roosegaarde "DUNE is the public interactive landscape that interacts with human behavior. This hybrid of nature and technology is composed of large amounts of fibers that brighten according to the sounds and motion of passing visitors. " http://studioroosegaarde.net/project/dune-4-2/ http://studioroosegaarde.net/info/

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Jie Qi a Ph.D. student at the MIT Media Lab has developed circuit stickers "solder-free, peel-and-stick electronic modules for crafting circuits. Use them to add electronics to any sticker-friendly surface: paper, fabric, glass, the sky’s the limit!" More info at: http://circuitstickers.com/

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The Actuated Matter Workshop at Zurich University of the Arts The workshop co-run with London based Loop.pH design studio. " During the workshop the twenty international participants developed a speculative model for membrane structures that exhibit properties of sensitivity, resilience, and decay. By physically engaging with the behaviors of active materials, they experimented with the threshold between the electronic and mechanic, the analog and the digital. The workshop followed a do-it-yourself approach and led to the development of sonic, luminous and moving modules that populated and activated the environment. The main structure was based on a three-dimensional ecology of interlinked loops, made from optical fibers, that formed a lightweight system with enough flexibility to become actuated but sufficient stiffness to support a multitude of components. The production of the active elements, electroluminescent screens, electro-active polymers and flexible audio panels, was strongly driven by the curiosity and engagement of an interdisciplinary team of participants who had little or no previous experience of working with such materials."

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Crystal - Studio Roosegaarde Crystals that change brightness when they are touched and moved around

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Flow - Studio Roosegaarde A wall made up of lots of tiny ventilators that turn on or off in response to people's presence.

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Philip Beesley - National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art