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Five_degrees_Dutch_Mind_Masters_Film.mp4 from Adriaan Wormgoor on Vimeo.

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Fun read about disturbing trends on supposedly child-friendly Youtube Kids. 

Some quotes

“The internet has a way of amplifying and enabling many of our latent desires; in fact, it’s what it seems to do best.”

“The system is complicit in the abuse. [...] The architecture they have built to extract the maximum revenue from online video is being hacked by persons unknown to abuse children, perhaps not even deliberately, but at a massive scale.“

It appears to depend on which values are placed on the fitness of content to emerge victorious and how they are selected. There are keywords which become popular which are exploited by content creators (or bots) to appear on the playing field at a level where they might reap success. It's a numbers game where it doesn't matter so much to the creator (from an investment aspect) if an (automated) attempt succeeds or not. What’s left is a wasteland, which the children or uninformed parents will scavenge looking for treasure.

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The github page is a good writeup of their project approach too.

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Open Hybrid

is a platform for interaction with everyday objects.

It combines physical objects with the benefits of a flexible augmented user interface.

It is Open Source and based on Web-Technology and Arduino.

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uniMorph is an enabling technology for rapid digital fabrication of customized thin-film shape-changing interfaces. By combining the thermoelectric characteristics of copper with the high thermal expansion rate of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene, we are able to actuate the shape of flexible circuit composites directly. The shape-changing actuation is enabled by a temperature driven mechanism and reduces the complexity of fabrication for thin shape-changing interfaces.

uniMorph composites can be actuated by either environmental temperature changes or active heating of embedded structures and can actuate in different shape-changing primitives. Different sensing techniques that leverage the existing copper structures can be seamlessly embedded into the uniMorph composite.

In collaboration with Basheer Tome and Clark Della Silva

Tangible Media Group Project Page

Flickr Album

(via unimorph | Felix Heibeck)

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Modified Hubsan X4 v2 mini-quadcopter making it computer-controlled from Adriaan Wormgoor on Vimeo.

Results of a fun day of hacking and coding to control this mini-quadcopter through the computer using Processing and Arduino.

I recently got the Hubsan X4 V2 mini-quadcopter and it's a bucket of fun. Decided to open the remote to see if it might be easily extendable. the two-way potentiometers in the joysticks suggested so. Desoldering the joystick was really the most annoying part! After that I woldered control wires Wondered if I could extend the controls a bit.

Used Software:

Processing 2.2.1 (processing.org/). Libraries: - ControlP5 for some GUI components (sojamo.de/libraries/controlP5/) - LeapMotion library (github.com/mrzl/LeapMotionP5) - OscP5 for OSC communication (sojamo.de/libraries/oscP5/)

Arduino 0161. - changed PWM Timer 0 for more accurate analog output (playground.arduino.cc/Main/TimerPWMCheatsheet)

Will post a bit more on datkanarie.tumblr.com/ soon.

Music: Porno Music by Flamingosis (soundcloud.com/flamingosis)

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Interesting outlook. Would you rent yourself out for an artificial mind to be able to explore the world through human eyes?

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Collection of six cases where physical worlds are overlapped by virtual ones. #MixedReality, #SpacedAugementedReality, #VR-Continuum. Check more Immersive Spaces under the tag: “ Immersive Audiovisual Environments”.

[pic:TIME TILINGS, Pablo Valbuena // LIGHT FORM, Mathieu Rivier //...

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I need iPad beta testers for my new sound project, Volotic. It’s a weird, non-linear sequencer kind of thing. Email beta[at]j38[dot]net and I’ll add you to TestFlight.

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One of the first people to open up the Kinect to the open-source community just keeps on truckin'. Oliver Kreylos demonstrates integration of 3 Kinect camera's and an Oculus Rift to suggest quite believable telepresence. The visual aesthetic is somewhat reminiscent A Scanner Darkly, which only makes it extra cool 

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Weeknotes week 9+10 2014

This week’s note will cover the last two weeks. Time flies and it slipped my mind last time. Perhaps a bi-weekly interval will end up suiting me best. I'm just getting started with the whole weeknotes thing and everyone has to find their ideal rhythm. In any event: what’s up? At the HVA the minor Intelligent Environments is progressing nicely. This year’s group is an enthusiastic bunch and they’ve surprised me a few times already. This year I’m teaching my classes in a completely different room which is much more spacious and with tons of natural light flooding in. Environmental elements are crucial to creating a positive affective state of mind where the mind is permitted to think outside of the box, yet I hadn’t quite expected it to work this drastically. Still it may be a fluke, finding it difficult to measure. In a few weeks an international ‘intensive program’ on the Internet of Things will be hosted by the HVA that I’ll be participating in with a few lectures and we’ve been prepping that too. I attended the second day of FITC in Amsterdam two weeks ago. A friend couldn’t make it to the second day and let me adopt his ticket. It was a day filled with all manners of creative coding practice and I was stoked to just absorb a lot of great use-cases and lectures by talents from across the world. I’m off to Resonate in Serbia in a few weeks and FITC was a good appetizer. Most inspiring was Kyle McDonald’s talk on Do It With Everyone which suggested to be playfully free in sharing ideas and simple proof of concepts with the world and see if they catch on. Given his track record sharing certainly isn’t synonymous with losing opportunities. I’ve been tinkering on some new stuff, delving again into Unity but with more intent this time. The platform has had my interest for a while but this year I’d like to make at least a few prototypes with it to explore how it can fit into the praxis of creative interactive installations. I’ve got a zany idea in the works, hope to have an early prototype by next week! Last week I spent a day at Stijn Kuipers' den debugging some issues I was having with EMG Muscle Game which should end up giving me much more freedom of deployment. On Thursday last week I visited a possible location with Mr.Beam for a collaboration we’re putting together. If all goes well - and it looks that way - we’ll be exploring where interactivity and projection mapping intersects in a festival context later on this year.  In between I visited various studios, presenting myself, my work, exchanging ideas and looking for collaborations. When things get more concrete I’ll be sure to post. Spent some time promoting the ThisHappened event in and around Rotterdam and made some new contacts along the way. I think I’m going to enjoy the ride of organising and hosting ThisHappened.

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"Children appear to learn underlying principles from their actions only insofar as those actions can be interpreted symbolically.”

http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/03/10/gesturing-hands-powerful-tool-children-s-math-learning

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Weeknotes week 8 2014

How about that for a breath of fresh air? Sometimes there just isn't any news to report. I went off the grid with some friends last week, hence nothing on deck.