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Just back from a Los Angeles journey to call on various innovators in my role as Collaborative Strategy Leader for Digi International. First, I paid a visit to statistics professor and data expert Mark Hansen at UCLA’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. Mark is currently investigating what he calls “participatory sensing, projects that engage the general public […]

Matt Richardson of Make is using our XBee Internet Gateway to track and display all his online scores (Google results, YouTube followers and the like) on a big LED display he calls the Ego Ticker: Matt’s the host of Make: Live. He’s also one of the Master’s students at ITP and a notable technophile. This blog post should add

The students in our NYU ITP Sensitive Buildings class presented terrific final projects last Tuesday. They spent their Fall making the most of a unique opportunity to invent prototypes for large-scale sensor/device networks, then tested out their creations in a landmark 28-story apartment building on New York’s Columbus Circle. The property owners had invited ITP to develop a

A quick preview of the 2011 ITP Winter Show in photos. Come and see it at 721 Broadway in New York, December 18th & 19th only!

The New York Observer is doing a video series about local people with interesting ideas. 12 to Watch in 2012, profiles some New Yorkers doing innovative things with technology and design. I got to be in Episode 7, which came out today. In it, I talk about designing, artists, science, the Internet of Things, Digi International,

O’Reilly Media and the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) facilitated a generous donation of 30 copies of my book “Building Wireless Sensor Networks” for the “First West African Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks” at Accra, the University of Ghana. According to their site: “The workshop is designed to impart skills and knowledge on applying technological approaches

On the evening of December 1st, I got to teach an XBee Wireless Networking workshop for the staff at my favorite interactive science museum, the Exploratorium in San Francisco. We went over the basics of wireless networking, made a chat session, then built out interactive doorbell projects. Finally, the staff got a homework assignment for creating

“Building Wireless Sensor Networks” has just been translated into Japanese, thanks to the tireless and inspired efforts of my friend and colleague Shigeru Kobayashi for the Make Projects series. Translation was done by Bun Mizuhara with design by Yosuke Nakanishi. The Japanese title roughly translates to read, “Wireless Sensor Networks Made with XBee,” which describes the content very nicely. Shigeru chose the new cover art

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

There’s a great new short film from Ericsson that I took part in, examining the future of the Internet of Things, called “Networked Society: On the Brink.”  The full film is embedded below, or if you just want a quick peek, see the trailer. In the first few days, the piece has had over 53,000 views