A very simple but creative robot that just about anyone can make; It would be fun to see where people can take this idea and what other things they can make it do. Irene Diaz de Leon

This is a really beautiful piece of furniture; very convenient when walking across a dark room at night to ensure you don’t bump into it. I find it most interesting that under bright lights the movement it rippled throughout the table. Irene Diaz de Leon

The title link will take you to a great lecture on creating meaningful interfaces for interactive environments/projects. The speakers have a strong focus on community involvement and fun/playful interaction. Stanford has a nice library of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) lectures available for free and they’re all very useful.

I saw this large scale installation and I thought it was amazing how well portrayed it was. From a distance, it looked like it had 3D qualities to it, like it belonged on a video game. The sensors detect people walking around the square, and displays it on multiple LCD projectors onto the building. The…

The video displays one of Nam June Paik’s installation pieces. The piece is a a wall of television monitors that together form a moving image. Using bright neon colors, Paik forms a visually pleasing series of images that makes the viewer pause and stare. The images at first flash causing confusion and causing the viewer…

I thought this piece was pretty cool. I like the way the lights move throughout the piece in an organized way. It definitely caught my eye when looking at the different installation art that is out there on the web.

This is an interesting article I found on the growing existence of hacker spaces. A certain collective of people will compile money to pay rent on a large space to publicly use for, well, hacking. It’s similar to examples we do in class, except on a much larger scale. It is also more productive in…

I can definitely see giant versions of this in Time Square in the near future. I really love everything about this piece. This 16x16x16 cube is basically LEDs in a secure case, being controlled in real time by a computer (or SD card controller). I think they are available for purchase for companies wanting eye-catching…

This is pretty incredible. Essentially this technology will allow two or more users to display and interact with different data sets, allowing for more intuitive one-on-one information sharing. The technology is still a bit off from physically being manageable, but the issues they are addressing with the software are excellent.

Ok, so this is more about being REALLY good at your job than about the LEDs or the technical aspects of what we’ve been working on, but I think it’s amazing. They did have to hook up battery packs to each sheep, and remotely turn them on for the fireworks effect, so that does require…

I found to tutorial that helps and introduced topics dealing with integrated circuits. The tutorials that I’ve seen have helped with the understanding of elements that are basic circuit builders on boards.