Sketching in Hardware Day 3: Philip Van Allen

The New Ecology of Things

autonomous behaviors: ALAVs human scale: Nikolai Cornell's installation for George P. Johnson encouraging social interaction: round table for George P. Johnson, Jonathan Jarvis, Moto Development - the roundness of the table really makes a difference productive: people make their own experiences and produce their own meanings - designers are the facilitators

Tools for designers - NET Lab tools

• tethered system, but with wireless


• easy to use for designers, but supports coding


• Widgets: drag and drop Flash components, configured in XML file


• Supports: Osculator, analog in/out, esc


• Hub: Java server that talks to all the devices


• MediaControl: controlling the environment

conversation

• free to download


• but there should be some sort of consortium to share all these tools


• demo: DMX light is controlled through ENTEC


• Bjoern: what would the ideal solution look like, because we're all using hacks to make a really good dynamic gui editor for these graphics/hardware protoyping systems


• Phil: Agrees with Matt: students already have and know Flash


• Matt: Flash is important because it handles all kinds of media and web stuff - not because its graphical