Start thinking, they want your projects.
Building Interactive Plagrounds (BIP) is a project promoting the creation of interactive spaces. Running alongside Elettrowave, they plan to use your projects in real world situations… so need solid, well constructed pieces/spaces of interaction to be passed around drunken hordes or sweaty dancers… the perfect situation for electronics.
I’ve got a backlog of posts that just keeps seeming to get longer, with some sitting in my todo’s for at least a year. So in an attempt to not let them pass here’s a quick hit of some of the great and the good:
An attempt at digital pixels. Not quite as beautiful as Daniel Rozin’s work but still pretty interesting (the end goals are different anyhow). It’s nice how the whole system talks to each other, and ‘pixels’ can be added and removed as needed. Created with Processing.
Zopa.com has already had a reasonable amount of interest in the press. I originally saw it when checking out what the guys at Poke had been up to recently. Looking into it it’s a very interesting idea. Basically matching up lenders and borrowers. I’m interested to see whether it’ll get popular enough to get Carol Vorderman of the TV adverts in the morning.
This guy seems to have far too much fun making things such as paint ball and zombie mini guns. The best thing is he then goes to work and does stuff like this.
To balance out the mini-guns and zombies: this next site is somewhere between the ‘you too can look like Kate Moss’ pages and a MIT grads dissertation. Like.com utilizes image recognition techniques to find similar items within a number of online stores stock.
Finally, Matt Biddulph at hackdiary has created a meeting of our favorite Phy/Dig interface Arduino and Second Life. Some basic workings out are included so we can all get on with it ourselves. The potential for real world/ virtual world interfaces is massive.
If you’ve been living in a box for the last few days then you may have not seen the latest Grand Theft Auto trailer. With the amount of budget they’ve been spending on letting people know, it’s unlikely you haven’t. But for those lonely few, here it is.
For the hi-fi lovers check it out at Rockstar’s site (Recommended)
For the lazy lo-fi’s just hit play:
