I’ve been asked a few times about kit availability for the Building Wireless Sensor Networks book. Yes, soon! The electronics elves are feverishly working on it, and keep mumbling “February, if not before.” Watch this space for more info. Also, some nice mentions showing up for the book: A book review from Dr. Dobb’s software development site Make Magazine has posted …
Friday, January 28 is the nominal deadline for students to apply to the MFA Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts for the class of 2013. But don’t panic. The program will continue to accept applications on a case-by-case basis as space allows. If you are a user-centered designer with a cross-disciplinary set of interests, come from a design or …
It’s about time! My first ever book, Building Wireless Sensor Networks with ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing has been released by O’Reilly Media. It’s available in hardcopy, Safari Library, ePub, Mobi, PDF, Kindle, as an Apple iBook, and of course in real bookstores and libraries. I’ll be keeping updated information on this page, including errata, additions and related links. From the back …
The 2010 final projects for my Fundamentals of Physical Computing class at SVA’s Interaction Design MFA program are now all posted online. These 15 students represent the best interaction designers that you can’t hire yet. They’ll graduate in 2012. In the meantime, check out: Personified Chair: Video | HTML – Kristin Breivik, Benjamin Gadbaw, Allison Shaw, Adjoa Opoku Chutes & Spheres: Video | PDF – …
A new and significantly improved version of the XBee Internet Gateway is now available, thanks to Jordan Husney‘s hard work and mid-air inspirations. If you want to connect an XBee directly to the Internet, the new version 1.1.0 is the simplest method for facilitating that connection. XIG code runs on the ConnectPort X2 and will be featured in the “Over the …
As reported on CNet, and Gigaom, GroundedPower has just been acquired by venture capital-backed Tendril Inc. of Boulder, Colorado. Tendril is a leading energy management technology provider that supplies energy software, hardware and services to both consumers and utility companies. Along with ITP alumni Mike Bukhin, Demetrie Tyler and Terence Arjo, I’ll be helping to incorporate GroundedPower’s customer engagement technologies into Tendril’s …
Just finished presenting the XBee Internet Gateway at Sketching in Hardware 2010, held at the Encounter dome at LAX airport. My presentation covered the basics of (essentially) bringing web services to the Arduino via a ConnectPort and XBee radios from Digi International. The Gateway is intended for use in schools, design firms, hacker spaces or art venues. Some engineers from Sparkfun …
GroundedPower made the technology news home page on CNET this Saturday with a story about how people are important to the smart grid. Here’s the permalink.
Fox Boston ran an in-depth report on the initial results of the Cape Light Compact pilot that our GroundedPower project installed in 100 homes on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard. We’re now taking this to at least six more municipal utilities, tripling the size of the pilot program. GroundedPower focuses on customer engagement—employing technology as a means to creating a desirable …
The Hammersmith Group just published a nice overview of the potential for connected devices by Constantine Valhouli dubbed “The Internet of things: Networked objects and smart devices.” It quotes myself, Julian Bleecker, Bruce Sterling, Adam Greenfield and covers devices from the WineM to Botanicalls to the Ambient Orb along with the original online coffee pot. There’s a variety of other interesting research papers on …
