1 November 2008 @ 12:30
27 October 2008 @ 23:00
Showtime…
V2_Events: Test_Lab goes Noordkaap: Urban play in action
Thursday, October 30, 20:00h, Location: Noordkaap, Voorstraat 123,
Dordrecht.
Entrance: free
V2_ and Noordkaap Foundation invite you to witness how artists,
designers, and performers give their views on potential solutions for
the Voorstraat Noord urban development case, by taking you on city
walks, seducing you to play urban games, and surprising you with
artistic encounters on the streets.
Featuring:
Stichting de Stad,
Stealth Unlimited,
Arnuro Hernandez,
on-signal.org,
Pablo Valbuena
and others.
18 October 2008 @ 14:19
Ping V4 - at V2…
Upcoming Thursday over a week ;-).. 30th of October we’ll b e featuring at _Testlab organized by V2 (the institute for unstable media)..
It’s a kind a showcase in the Voorstraat in Dordrecht, where we gonna setup the installation in 2 shops next 2 eachother.
Some small improvements are (if we pull it off in time):
wireless pingpong bats (this means bluetooth..) so no more hassle with long wires..
and finally we switch to an arduino board..
27 September 2008 @ 14:31
Goodbye PICNIC08…
We had a lot of fun last week. Eelco and me participated in the social RFID Hackers Camp ‘08, an event organised by Mediamatic in which hackers from all around europe came together to collaborate and create interactive, social installations which would be displayed at the PICNIC’08 conference.
Eelco participated in the VBird project, who developed a flying (well, actually, throwable) creature with an embedded camera and RFID reader, which recorded movies while airborn and uploaded those to the picnic website, linking them to the persons the bird was thrown from and to.
My project was the IkRun, an RFID-based running contest which posted the scores online, took photos of the winners and applauded them with their results.
6 other social rfid games were built and all were very successful. Nice to notice that all software written during the camp is open source, and with its documentation freely accessible from Mediamatic’s Picnic TRAC project page.
The quality of the conference it self was however mixed, lots of “hot air” and high level management talks. For me as an artist/hacker not very interesting. However, the place was a nice hangout for networking and meeting interesting people from around the globe, amongst others we got invited by Distance lab to visit their lab in Scotland and do a talk there.
9 September 2008 @ 22:12
PING talk in Amersfoort
The Hogeschool Utrecht has a Game Design minor and we were invited to give a guest lecture about our PING project to its students.
When it was demo time, even the teachers could not resist trying it out.
8 September 2008 @ 22:08
Bluetooth Spam released
I found out I had released the BlueSpam software I wrote for the Kunstvlaai bluetooth spamming installation already a while ago, but never got to announcing it. Well, here it is. It is completely untested and comes without any warranty, guarantee or fitness for any particular purpose, but is should work 
It is written as a Python app with a Django admin frontend for deciding which media files to spam. It will (try to) send anything you upload to any bluetooth phone within range. 3gp files, midi files and txt files (which will display as ‘notes’ on phones) are known to work. But, YMMV.
Please look at the Bluetooth Spam project page for more details, although I must admit the documentation still lacks a lot. But hackers should be able to get it running 
For all the rest of you, I’ve promised people to document it better so keep an eye on this blog.
5 September 2008 @ 09:19
‘ Hot100 - virtueel platform’ and more…
Well, things go smooth after ISEA..
(a blog-post somebody made about us..)
http://transitlab.org/2008/07/29/ping/
we got the invitation to join in at the Hot100 at PICNIC ‘08..
http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/22897/en
something to do with talented students in the field of e-culture/new media…
of course we couldn’t refuse to join in…
Now getting ready for the Mediamatic Hackerscamp and next Tuesday (Sept.9th) we will be giving a presentation for the Hogeschool van Utrecht, as part of a ‘games minor’..
so after the summer (which summer??) we are rolling again…
e
4 September 2008 @ 23:20
Expermenting with RFID
…using three different types of RFID readers, in preparation for Mediamatic’s RFID social hackers camp at PICNIC’08.
They fun (or lame?) thing is, they all use totally different paradigms of connecting to the PC! One is a smart card reader, one makes a serial port and the USB stick even acts as if it’s a keyboard…
I still have troubles with this last one, when holding a tag next to it, this ‘keyboard’ doesn’t ‘type’! And even better, no serial number / maker ID or anything, no API docs.. great. Well, it’s a challenge.
22 August 2008 @ 13:10
and.. action!
A picture of our presentation. Unfortunately we did not make a recording due to camera failure. But it’s nice to have these pictures anyway. Thanks, Wim van der Plas!
16 August 2008 @ 07:15
Eagles have landed again.. BIB!
Well.. now everybody has strug ground again in the netherlands.. we can get back to business..
some interesting things going on and of course we will keep it posted.. maybe something DIY going on in the Suisse (who knows) and also some things to do with Picnic ‘08, Amsterdam..(Mediamatic HackersCamp and other..)
Some nice things starting to come our ways..
e