Rocketboom featured Botanicalls today as part of their overview of the ITP Winter Show. We were also pleased to hear from the ITP faculty that Botanicalls could continue to be installed at ITP for the next six months so the system can be developed further. It was a terrific show with a large and appreciative […]
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The Botanicalls project made its debut at the ITP Winter Show on December 17th. Botanicalls allows thirsty plants to place phone calls for human help. Rather than driving a wedge between people and nature, the project uses technology to bring people into closer relationships with their natural environment. Humans can also phone the plants to
XBee Broadcast Time as received by Luscious Electric Delight – click for movie (L.E.D. created by Leif Krinkle with Rob Faludi and Benedetta Piantella) The real-time clock which broadcasts time to the entire ITP floor via XBee ZigBee radio is now complete. Its time signal can be picked up by any project on the floor
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Ariel’s Portrait Sai Sriskandarajah, Matt Chmiel, Teresa Porter and I created the Human Empowered, Pixel Optimized Camera Rendering Asynchronous Process for the Physical Computing without Computers course at ITP. This project recreates the digital camera rendering process, but instead of using microprocessors, human beings are enlisted to encode, digitize and render the image. Matt Encodes
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New Micros makes an nifty yet expensive XBee Dongle carrier that plugs an XBee radio directly into your computer’s USB port. It’s also available bundled with an XBee Pro. The schematic indicates that the hardware handshaking pins are connected, so this dongle should work for firmware upgrades as well.
Setting your own unique PAN ID prevents your radios from conflicting with other people’s projects. Most importantly, it prevents other people from accidentally interfering with your projects. Everyone at ITP that is using ZigBee 802.15.4 radios should select one or more unique PAN IDs for themselves, and set all their radios to use those PAN
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XBee radios can now record and output multiple channels of digital and analog data without using microcontrollers. The latest firmware (version 10A1) supports up to seven channels of analog input, nine channels of digital I/O and two channels of analog (pulse-width modulation) output. These will be great for creating small sensor modules or miniature output
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