I gave a talk on Sociable Objects yesterday at Microsoft’s Social Computing Symposium. to show all the great work around socially active physical computing at ITP. There was a live feed of the conference on O’Reilly Radar, but of course that’s done now so we’ll have to wait for Microsoft Research to publish talks. In

The EAGLE Layout Editor is a great way to design custom printed circuit boards for Arduino-based electronics projects. However, while Arduino uses the ATMEGA168 and ATMEGA8 microcontrollers from Atmel, the EAGLE libraries I’ve found online don’t use Arduino’s simplified pin labeling. Therefore, I’ve created a custom Arduino-AVR library for EAGLE with the proper Arduino pin

Botanicalls, our project that gives plants the ability to make phone calls and send text messages, is launching a new project for the streets. Botanicalls: A Walking Tour Led by the Plants of Manhattan is happening this Thursday, September 11 through Sunday, September 14 beginning at The Center for Architecture on LaGuardia Street as a

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

The final day of 5 in 5 was happy-dirty, telepathic, deliciously chilly, retro-reflective, recursively meta, southwardly mobile, ephemerally illustrated, dubiously conversant, cartographically challenging, mixed, mashed and lovingly recycled. Andrew Schneider was our final Guest Star and meta-chronicled the waning day of five. As promised, the fivers headed to Odessa where their personal bartender concocted the

Day 4’s 5 in 5ers drew like text, cooked like robots, threw and chirped, mapped and walked, made peace with sandwiches, strolled with Dada, arrowed electroluminescently, surfaced tubularly, put out 2 sea and put up with Zombies. We were proud to have Make Blogger and ITP alumni Jonah Brucker-Cohen as the Day 4 Guest Star.

The middle day of 5 in 5 rebranded Bed-Stuy, counted clicks, twittered literature, resistored a dress, gamed a subwoofer, hacked Peggy into Lite-Brite, mapped our past, threw light sculptures, sampled soft circuits, waisted a skirt of waste, retold one story of a man named Brady and another from Beverly Cleary (a lovely lady). Guest Starring

Day 2 of 5 in 5 brought to life a periodic tote, tickets to a sunset, a year in pictures, balls of light. In an impromptu celebration of old-time computing we got earrings compatible with your PC, AsteriskFTP, and thank goodness there’s finally BASIC for Twitter. Clink your glasses for a laser photo trigger, trip

Working on a prototype for a future version of the Botanicalls Kit, we’ve started toying with a leafy motif….

It’s the first day of 5 in 5 and there’s a parade of projects. See the gang free themselves from Positioning Systems, choose their food decisively, sash a speaker, stick socks to a tee, mate software circles, print Mega Man, enliven their claw prizes, greet with robots, calm a TV, root for poops, Eco-nomize a