Five Botanicalls systems and one Botanicalls Kit were delivered to the MoMA Architecture & Design Collection last Wednesday. In the photo below you can see them beginning their journey into deep storage, where they will stay before being examined by a conservator for preservation recommendations. After that, it’s on to their permanent home in the […]
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This month Radio Shack is testing the waters for a return to its roots and the DIY revolution. Parallax is supplying 500 stores across the country with XBees and other maker-oriented components. Arduinos are being supplied directly by the manufacturer*. If sales take off, the distribution will extend to Radio Shack’s 5,700 company locations and potentially to
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We’re exploring a whimsical project to collect breathalyzer data from various locations for use in visualizing local trends in intoxication. This weekend I completed the first step by prototyping simple hardware that reacts to various amounts of booze on the breath. It’s not intended to be a finely calibrated measurement tool at all. We intend
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Last week I toured San Francisco to visit some of the people who are pushing the envelope of innovation, as part of my job for Digi Collaborative R&D. It was a fantastically productive trip that has me brimming with ideas for kits, workshops, design challenges and a few potentially high-profile projects. My stops included Frog
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The Museum of Modern Art’s Architecture & Design Acquisition Committee has approved the addition of Botanicalls to the MoMA permanent collection. This means that after the Talk to Me exhibition closes, Botanicalls will join the likes of Eames chairs the BIC pen, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Starry Night. It’s a huge honor and we’d like to thank the acquisition committee, as well as the many
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Digi and I will be hosting a webinar on Thursday, October 13th called “What’s Fun and New with XBee.” It will showcase some of the cool stuff that artists, innovators and interaction designers are making with device networking. Join us online at 2 PM Eastern time on the 13th. Advance registration is free.
To close out September I was invited to speak on mesh networking at Frog Design’s New York City office. Frog describes itself as a global innovation firm, creating work for clients like Apple, Disney, GE, Microsoft and many others. For their staff, I explained the basic concepts behind device networking then showed some popular modern industrial examples
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