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The Life Project
Fiona French, Faculty of Computing
OpenLab Workshops:
Psychological projection into technology
SPACE Studios, Hackney
DON’T SWITCH ME OFF!
Concept / Brief
artists, designers, makers, musicians
interactive ecosystem of machines
machine husbandry
Inspiration
Conway’s classic Game of Life
Cellular automata show emergence and
self-organisation
Evidence in nature
Technical
Hardware and software - £2500
Sensors, actuators, batteries, materials etc.
Jee-nodes – ATmega328p chip/processor
with four ports and wireless
OpenSource software
Emotional AI
FEED ME!
Proximity and mood
Representation
LIGHTS, MUSIC (no ACTION)
Communicating feelings
With each other…
…and with sensors in environment
IR Serial Communication
To pin on Jeenode
micro-controller
Photo Resistor
receives infra-red
To 10k pull-up resistor
to power
To pin on
Jeenode
sending serial
to LED
GITHUB
LED broadcasts
infra-red
Patterns
Wireless to system
- tracking data
The Conversation
With people
Feeding Time
You scan a QR code,
hit a URL …
update a database
read by a Processing app
in SPACE Studios
that can broadcast short-range wireless data
to the appropriate Creature to feed it…
…and it links you to Creature’s twitter account
where you can see it tweeting “thank you” …
Tweets
Or you move creatures around...
Teamwork
Concept art
Crafting Creatures
Skins
Recycle materials
Community involvement
Prototypes
Process, engagement with technology
Where do we live?
Happy cave
Antisocial forest
Surprise rocks
Environment
Exhibition
Showcase at SPACE
13-14 Oct 2011
EVA London 2012
Come and play with the prototypes at EVA London 2012
10-12 July, BCS
Fiona French
[email protected]
http://lifeproject.spacestudios.org.uk/
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