Open Source Embroidery is a socially engaged art project initiated by Ele Carpenter in 2005, investigating the relationship between programming for embroidery and computing. It’s based on the common characteristics of needlework crafts and open source computer programming: gendered obsessive attention to detail; shared social process of development; and a transparency of process and product. [...]
Read Full Post...May 26, 2009
I came to experiment with the construction of an arduino-on-wood just recently because I began to be interested in the idea of “embalming” data. Since some years ago I’ve been exploring ways to make visible and audible the human rhythms of birth and death, and at this time I wanted to get hold of these [...]
Read Full Post...May 26, 2009
Understanding how we got ‘here’ plays an important role on our efforts to imagine and project the future. In that spirit here’s a lecture given by Michael Riordan at the Computer History Museum addressing the broad efforts toward microminiaturization of the early 1950s. The computer chip we know today initially emerged from Cold War demands for [...]
Read Full Post...May 25, 2009
Guilherme Martins and I have been working on a sculpture composed of a series of electronic circuits mixed with paper and other materials. These objects, each equipped with a custom designed PAPERduino, will be assembled into a mobile as we explore the aesthetics of electronics. In untitled circuits each piece reacts to the others to [...]
Read Full Post...May 21, 2009
Still on the subject of printed and flexible electronics, here’s another interesting article by the Technology Review. It describes what its creators call a “dirt-cheap technology” for producing printed supercapacitors by spraying mats of carbon nanotubes onto two pieces of plastic and sandwiching a polymer gel in between. The process seems simple enough to be [...]
Read Full Post...May 20, 2009
In my quest for DIY production techniques for flexible electronics and display technologies, I hit upon this article on Technology Review. It addresses a new technique, devised by researchers at Stanford University and Samsung, to position organic microwires on a substrate and build complex flexible circuits with greater ease. It doesn’t seem to be exactly [...]
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June 1, 2009
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