Last Thursday was spent visiting, lecturing and workshopping at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge. The Media Lab is similar in scope and mission to NYU’s ITP, where I teach. It operates at the intersection of design, media and technology. My host, Leah Buechley, is an Assistant Professor there. Leah was also our collaborator on the LilyPad XBee wearable radio system. Her lab …

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Benjamin Zaitlen just alerted me to the charming new BeeSim project he helped create at Indiana University. A paper about it was presented at the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. BeeSim uses the LilyPad XBee that I co-designed, to teach children the basics of honeybee behavior as an interactive and physical game. Want some of this project’s sweet wireless …

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  Buy the Book! Buy the Kit! From the back cover: Ready to explore the glamourous world of wireless sensor networking? Create distributed sensor systems and intelligent interactive devices using the XBee radios with ZigBee wireless networking protocol. With this fast-paced, hands-on guide, you’ll have built a series of useful projects by the time you’re halfway through the book, including a …

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Robert Faludi is an advisor and consultant for connected device companies. He is currently head of product for Perceptive Things, a startup in the Smart Buildings space. For six years, he was the Chief Innovator at Digi International, working to forge strong connections with the maker community, uncover new innovation methodologies, support outstanding new work and create prototypes that spur new …

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Basic XBee Examples XBee Practical Example - Using the XBee ZigBee radios in paired communication between two PIC microcontrollers. XBee Firmware Upgrade Example - Demonstrates how to build a bare-bones circuit for loading firmware and configurations to the XBee radio without the need for custom interface boards. Common XBee Mistakes – A helpful list for troubleshooting why your XBee radio isn’t doing what …

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Gave a talk (more of a conversation really) about Smart Energy and What Lies Ahead at ETech, the Emerging Technology Conference in San Jose last week. Slides for the online casinotalk are online. Also gave a workshop called Socializing Stuff about wireless objects that was a hands-on introduction to 802.15.4 and ZigBee radios. Wrapped it all up at the last-night Fest …

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Kate Hartman and I will be teaching a hot new class in Wireless Wearables using the LilyPad XBee. It is offered through downtown Brooklyn’s hacker space, NYC Resistor on Sunday, December 14th from 2-6 p.m. The price of the class includes your own brand-new LilyPad XBee board, an XBee radio and all needed soft circuit materials. The class description explains all: …

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Robert Faludi Curriculum Vitae +1 212-989-6888 [email protected] Professional Positions PRODUCT MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, Sensata | Xirgo, 2020-Present. Product design and management for fleet and consumer IoT dash cam, with AI video event sensing and advanced vehicle telematics functionality.Product design and management for fleet and consumer IoT dash cam, with AI video event sensing and advanced vehicle telematics functionality. HEAD OF PRODUCT, Perceptive Things, 2018-2020. …

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Robert Faludi is an advisor and consultant for connected device companies. He is currently head of product for Perceptive Things, a startup in the Smart Buildings space. For six years, he was the Chief Innovator at Digi International, working to forge strong connections with the maker community, uncover new innovation methodologies, support outstanding new work and create prototypes that spur new …

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The ITP Resident Researchers held a show “An Evening with the Residents” to share the work we did this year. Projects I took part in, 7 in 7, the ITP Alumniblender, the XBee LilyPad, a Proximity Maintenance device, real-life Battery Research and the Botanicalls kit. Gabe, Demetrie, Kate, Jenny, John and Jeff all showed great work and I’ll miss them intensely …

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