Pinkie & Open I/O
Published by leinberger October 16th, 2006 in technology, sensor network
Pinkie is a network based electronics prototyping board. Developed as a precursor to building large networked systems that incorporate physical space and objects. Pinkie has been designed to easily compose sensors and actuators that reside in different locations. Pinkies are inherently invisible, they hide behind the structures and only serve as facilitators to interface the physical world to the digital network. Today creating architectural spaces connected to digital networks is possible, but not so easy or sustainable. Furthermore, it is not well practiced. So how does the design of spaces and objects change when they are networked? How do we situate communication / interaction technologies? What are the qualities of our experience in these spaces? To explore these questions we started to develop a new project called Open I/O.
http://plw.media.mit.edu/people/arikan/2005/pinkie/index.html
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http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009014.php
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