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I recently had the opportunity to visit Dynamicland, an extremely interesting project under way in the middle of Oakland. Dynamicland describes itself as “a new computational medium, where people work together with real objects in physical space…” but what is it, really? In practice, it is an entire building that has been comprehensively equipped with […] 
What if you could use a single programming environment to learn to code at an early age, then use that same environment to explore programming for robots, IoT, Augmented Reality, and then take those projects into a full-blown programming environment? Apple’s Swift Playgrounds is a free app that aspires to do all of these things. […] I’ve been spending some time making stuff with Lego Mindstorms EV3, and have learned some things that might be useful. Out of the box, the kit is extremely complete and most of the materials on-line and in print start with the assumption that ALL you have is the basic kit. However, with a bit of […] 
I’ve spent the past 7 years working extensively with 3D printing, everything from low-cost hobby level printers to very high end plastic and metal 3D printers. I’ve been exploring the elusive space in between, using low-cost printing to serve enterprise and volume production applications. I’ve experienced first-hand how the low cost and high quality of […] I have been working on a project with Lynn Hershman, called Alchemists Wand for the 21st Century. This art piece incorporates a number of brooms that have been modified to detect toxic substances, registering this on LEDs embedded in the broom handle, and transmitting their readings to a screen that presents information on what to […] Since October of last year, I’ve been working on an exciting project with filmaker and artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, an interactive installation integrated with a web-based media database called RAW/WAR. The interactive installation is constantly updated with multimedia from a companion website at rawwar.org. I’m going to describe some of the aspects that I worked […] One of the most interesting things about the Makerbot 3D printer is that it can be used to repair, or even upgrade, itself. After a substantial run of large prints, the bushings that hold the X & Y platform had started to wear out, and the print stage was becoming wobbly. This translated into unsightly […] I have had this Spykee robot for a while now, had encountered some issues, and decided to fix it. Spykee is a “toy” robot that is suprisingly sophisticated. It has a video camera and microphone, and can be controlled remotely from a computer via local WiFi, or over the Internet. However, it has a design […] I’ve been doing some development work at the Exploratorium, and my latest project is now ready to go live. It is a general purpose, highly configurable timelapse recording program, that will soon be incorporated into an interesting experiment in social dynamics (I’ll tell you what it is when it goes live). The program is […] Nik and I had an awesome baby! His name is Javier Jun-Hong, and his special superpower is breastfeeding. Here he is: Javier is preoccupied by the situation Now, as everyone knows, having a baby is a great opportunity to launch a variety of different toy-making and hacking projects. The first one is to […] |
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