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Making a RFID to Web Interface and LilyPad Electronic Fashion at ETech 2009

“Come to ETech; Experiment with Physical Computing and RFIDs” said Brady Forrest. The ETech RFID tag that I activated at registration is a gateway to several internetworked worlds.  It allows you to check into pulse stations to tell you about people with similar interests to you based on your traffic movements around the conference.  There […]

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Pachube, Patching the Planet: Interview with Usman Haque

Usman Haque (architect and director, Haque Design + Research) and founder of Pachube pointed me to this image from T.R. Oke’s book, “Boundary Layer Climates” (original photo source Prof. L. E. Mount’s The Climatic Physiology of the Pig) to explain his approach to the “software” of space. My focus as an architect has always been […]

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Hacking the World in 2009: Google Street View, “Smart Stuff,” and Wikiculture.

Google Street View Hacking This Google Street View Hack (via @timoreilly) will get my nomination for a Hacking the World Award this year, if there is such an award. A parade (the screenshot opening this post), a marathon, a mad-scientists laboratory, a sword fight, and more (see The Infonaut Blog) were staged all along the route […]

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