At the begining of this week I did a two day workshop with my colleague Joan Planas (joanplanas.net) on Arduino and creative technologies and innovation in the design world. We had 20 students from Interactive Design at the faculty of Art, Architecture and Design and two days to work on learning the basics of Arduino.
During the workshop students were guided to uderstand and get an idea of basic simple electronics and Arduino code by working on practical examples and by using desing metaphors as a resource to understand and learn code.
Many students had great ideas for projects and hopefully got to clarify some doubts. Their breif was to create an installation to take to the next Kinetica Art Fair in 2013.
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Arduino Workshop at the University of Lincoln
November 27, 2012 | Category: - Research Journal,General Topics,Interactive Design | Tags: architecture, Arduino, art, design, interactive, kinetica, lincoln, students, university, university of lincoln, workshop |Week 34 | Paper Writing
August 14, 2012 | Category: - Research Journal,General Topics |I’m working on my Picasso paper, so I don’t really have anything trilling to write about this week.
I hoped I would have a first draft to publish but I’t still doesn’t look ready.
Here are some interesting videos for this week though!
Interesting video on 3D printing at MIT, they call it the new printing press revolution. Read more …
Week 32 | Mixed Emotions
August 4, 2012 | Category: - Research Journal,General Topics,Interactive Design |
I have built a first Braitenberg Vehicle and it has turned out to have mixed emotions!
It is still a very early test but I’ve managed to build the first simple Braitenberg vehicle. I have made it as small as I’ve been able to, but for future builds I will have to make some structural changes. Read more …
6 in 1 Educational Solar Kit… oh yeah!
January 22, 2012 | Category: General Topics,Interactive Design |
This is a cool little gadget I got for Christmas this year and I didn’t get round to set it up until this week. As the name says it’s a solar kit to make solar powered thingies! For ages 10 and up.
It consists on a small motor and a solar cell, when you hook them up and shine some light it makes the motor spin! Then it has loads of little bits and pieces to make whatever you want! A car, a boat, a fan… great fun! The power cell does need direct sunlight, or else it won’t make the motor spin, I might get round to hook up a couple of capacitors…
Really cool, go get one right away! Read more …
Reflexiones de un Telepresente – Taller de Telepresencia en Hangar.org
December 19, 2011 | Category: - Research Journal,General Topics,Interactive Design |
Que es la telepresencia? Eso me preguntaba yo al principio del workshop, y esta pregunta sigue allí sin resolverse. En parte es bueno, porque no se trata de cerrar una definición y pasar a otra cosa, pero veo que entré con unas ideas, y salí un poco con las mismas.
Para mí la idea de telepresencia era sentir la presencia de otro espacio o sentirme presente en otro espacio. Pero creo que no llegamos a lograrlo en ningún momento.
En mi opinión se dio demasiada importancia a la imagen y al final quedamos un poco cansados de ver-nos en pantalla y de ver-los a ellos. Siempre encontré mas interesantes los momentos inesperados como oír la voz de Pedro des de la Laboral cuando no estaba el vídeo, preguntarnos que hacían los de la Laboral tanto rato parados cuando se congelaba la imagen. Read more …
Visiting the secrets of Joan Miró
November 24, 2011 | Category: - Research Journal,General Topics |
Not many people get to see the underground archives of the Fundació Miró in Barcelona. I am glad to say I have been one of the privileged few to be able to visit this fantastic place.
The Fundació Miró is a space in Barcelona dedicated to the artist’s work. It was the first public institution in Barcelona that focused on contemporary art to promote and publicise the work of contemporary artists in all its aspects.
As part of my Masters Degree in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, we were taken to visit the restoration rooms beneath the Fundació and the original archive, most of which was donated by Miró himself. Read more …
I/O/I The senses of machines
October 26, 2011 | Category: - Research Journal,General Topics,Interactive Design |
This week I visited the I/O/I. The senses of machines exhibition at the Disseny Hub (DHUB), located just in front of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.
The DHUB is a space dedicated to the world of design. At the moment they have two temporary locations, one in front of the Picasso Museum (Carrer de Montcada, 12) and another one in Palau de Pedralbes, (Avinguda Diagonal, 686). They will be moving to their permanent centre on Plaça de les Glòries sometime in 2012.
The senses of machines is defined as an “Interaction Laboratory”. The exhibit holds a mix of projects from different artists around the world, all of them quite recent and some not as interesting as others. Read more …
Mind over Matter
July 4, 2011 | Category: General Topics,Interactive Design,· Interactive Design |
I’ve been meaning to post this on my portfolio since I got back from Lincoln and I haven’t had a chance until now… Read more …
Junk Picking
May 21, 2011 | Category: General Topics |
It was a fun day today! My mate Hector and I decided to go to a little old shop in Lincoln that has loads of old electronics, radios and military junk.
We weren’t really looking for anything in particular, but we surely found some really cool stuff! Underneath the piles and piles of old boxes, radios, metres, and god knows what I managed to find a lovely Read more …
Mind over matter!
February 17, 2011 | Category: General Topics |
Fun evening with the lads playing with a new toy: The Mind Flex!
Mind Flex is a sort obstacle course where you have to try and get a ball to go from one point to another going through obstacles using a wireless headset that reads brainwave activity. When you concentrate the ball rises on a cushion of air, when you relax the ball descends.
We’re going to be, lets say… experimenting with, it all night…