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Pachube is a data brokerage platform for the internet of things, managing millions of datapoints per day from thousands of individuals, organisations & companies around the world. Allowing users to store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and environment data from objects, devices & buildings around the world.
Pachube uses a scalable infrastructure that allows you:
1. Manage realtime sensor & environment data
2. Graph, monitor & control remote environments
3. Build mobile & web apps that create value
4. Share data & create communities
Their site http://www.pachube.com/ also includes tutorials, documentation, libraries and examples on how to use the API for a variety of different visualisations and controllers.
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Is it possible to design and manufacture your own pieces of contemporary furniture without the necessary skills to do so? Cohda believe it is.
Using the same mathematical principles of the 1960s engineering toll and toy ‘Spirograph’ and expanding it into 3-dimensions, then by linking this with a newly developed computer programme and the latest 3D printing Cohda haver proved it is as easy to make a table as it was to draw spirals in the 60′s.
The difference to the 2D version is that Binary Spirals are drawn directly onto a digital computer tablet where a newly developed programme adds a third dimension by tracking the speed, pressure and time it takes the user to create the spiral. The collected data determines the surface configuration, leg height, depth and overall structure of the object.
The programme then generates the digital 3D product file ready for ‘3D Printing’ or ‘Rapid Prototyping’. This process allows the printing of 3D products layer by layer, similar to printing paper. For Cohda this experimental process is the first step towards digital ownership of products and future possibilities in Rapid Prototyping.
Held at the Baltic Centre for Contempory Arts, the exhibition consisted of an example of a table created in this method and also the interactive element allowing the public in engage with the process to create the contemporary furniture.
Here is a short time lapse movie showing one of the Binary tables being created.
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Invisible Cities created by Christian Marc Schmidt & Liangjie Xia.
The visualisation shows how the urban landscape is being shaped and moulded by the presence of social media (Twitter and Flickr which are all geocoded) to produce new digital cities. Each node that appears represents a tweet or photo upload being displayed in real time, the lines connecting the nodes represent links to common content.
The nodes also output the contents of the tweet or the photo that was posted.
The visualisation shows aggregate data in the form of the hills and valleys that are created in the landscape. The larger the hill means the greater the digital activity in that area. The contrast of live and aggregate data plays of each other nicely, in the way that it portrays the life within these new cities.
To read more about this project head over to the invisible cities website http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/invisiblecities/
You can also check out the project in its earlier stages to see how it has been developed by going to http://www.formfollowsbehavior.com/tag/taipeiproject/
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A log tool created by onformative.com to record and visualise the daily surfing habits of interaction designers, developers and artists. The piece and tutorial was created for weave magazine and if you head over to onformative.com you can download the log tool as well as the visualisation source code to visualise your own surfing patterns.
With the use of processing and the open source carnivorePE library was used to sniff and log your web, email and instant messaging on a specific local area network and records the header information of the incoming and outgoing packets of your personal computer into a log file. This information is then analysed for different IP address and ports as well as applications and services.
To see the tutorial as well as download the log tool and source code head over to onformative.com.
