Physical Computing Archives

18 June 2015

Technology progression

The project of physical computing had to be done using exclusively one technology: Arduino. Being honest, before starting with it, I was a bit confused with this Italian board. It looked to me as a normal hardware board, our old computer were full of these kind of stuff, but still everybody was so excited about it. After a few months…

17 June 2015

Project Methodology

For my project research and realisation, I used some of the IDEO cards methods. The first part of the research was based the observation of people behaviours. Following the method Fly on the Wall, I’ve been silently observing the behaviours of some people in a domestic situation, in particular when they were leaving a room without switching off the lights.…

1 June 2015

Cheeky Objects – Presentation

Brief description: It is a project about sustainability. It aims to educate people to become more responsible and save energy. I designed two smart objects: The Stubborn Door and The Morning Window. Both of them can attempt to ‘correct’ human behaviour. Project description: Title: Cheeky Objects Context: Ecology and energy saving Rationale: Rise awareness, educating people to electric energy saving…

31 May 2015

ThingsCon

About three weeks ago I have been, with a trip organised by university, at ThingsCon Conference in Berlin, the main conference on the Internet of Things in Europe. It was its second edition and many people said that it was much bigger compared to last year. Personally I found it of the right size, a good amount of people, but…

6 May 2015

Project ready for Berlin

My project on Social Object is ready for the ThingsCon conference in Berlin. After spending a month trying to build a prototype forThe Stubborn Door, I had eventually to give in my idea for logistic reason (reported in my previous post). Hence, I get back to my previous room mockup showing The Morning Window having only a week I did…

29 April 2015

The stubborn door – attempt failed

After the design critic with my tutor Nicolas, emerged that the prototype of the Morning Bling it’s nice and works fine, however it is only a scaled model and it’s impossible to interact with it. Furthermore, the strongest idea of my project is probably the stubborn door rather than the window. Thus I’ve been suggested to work on the door.…

28 March 2015

Cheeky Objects – first prototype

For a first prototype of the Cheeky Objects, my physical computing project focused on social objects for energy saving, I choose to represent one of them: the annoying window blind. The concept is very simple, when there is enough light outside, the window blinds will automatically open and the light inside will switch off, an easy trick to take advantage…

28 February 2015

Cheeky objects

“It’s not always easy to be with smarts, especially if they are smarter than you” The IoT aims to make our houses smarter and smarter, to enhance our comfort and our lifestyle, but what happens when a house knows better than you which behaviours are more appropriate and more sustainable for the environment for example? It could be not always…

23 February 2015

Social objects for energy saving – part II

My area of interest for the social object project is how people interact with the environment, their behaviour toward energy, in particular electrical energy and their concern about energy saving. Hence, the starting point of my research is not really sustainable design, which is a filtered way to see the issue, being a field where these concerned have already been…

16 February 2015

Social objects for energy saving

For my next major project, my task is to create a social object using physical computing as an agent. But, what is it a social object? “The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, as opposed to talking to somebody else.” Hugh Macleod The cartoonist Hugh MacLeod is the man who popularized…

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