27 September 2008 @ 14:31
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.
Posted by arjan in General, OpenSource, PICNIC | No Comments »
For all the rest of you, I’ve promised people to document it better so keep an eye on this blog.
