Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

DIY* Festival - Zürich

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Already 1.5 week ago, we were at the diy*festival in Zürich, with the exhibition running our PING installation.As always, people like it, especially the kids on the "family" themed sunday. Besides PING, we gave a workshop for building a simple, low cost and easy to set up touch screen using ...

Goodbye PICNIC08…

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

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 ...

Bluetooth Spam released

Monday, September 8th, 2008

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 ...

‘Live camera’ code available

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

The code for my Kunstvlaai 2008 project has been made available on the following page: http://www.on-signal.org/projects/Live_webcam_in_Quake3

Laser tracking

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Tonight I thought of using laser pointers on a projection to create a sort of interaction, much like the Graffiti Research Lab has done. Of course, this has been done before, I know it. But, is it also done for purposes other than just visual enhancement and entertainment? For instance, ...

Bluetooth…

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Just ordered a Bluetooth Class 1 V2.0 EDR Dongle, which has a range of 250 metres! For the Kattenbak art collective, we're doing a project with 'spamming' movies made by artists of the collective on the Kunstvlaai expo coming May. The Kunstvlaai is the alternative art expo/festival to the "official" ...

Meet Phobot, the scary robot…

Monday, March 17th, 2008

A friend of mine created a cute robot which is either scared or curious, dependent on what/who he meets... The team presented their work at the student's design competition of the Human-Robot interaction conference, and they won the first prize! http://ork.be/archive/48/phobot I'm anxious to see in which way they develop this puppy ...

Goodbye OV chipkaart…

Monday, March 10th, 2008

The hackers have hacked the Mifare RFID chip: http://webwereld.nl/articles/50228/ov-chipkaart-definitief-gehackt.html Read the paper here if you're really interested. The TNO security analysis is also interesting.

Make blog

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

The blog of make magazine is a nice source for inspiration for tech-related projects.. http://blog.makezine.com/

Virtual 3D

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

This has some relationships with our physical cursor project... and maybe with the next project, the virtual mirror. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw And on Johnny's projects page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/