DIY / Opensource

The Pachube community and a growing group of contributors including Mark Shepard, JP de Vooght, Rob van Kranenburg and others have embarked on developing what they are calling Air Quality Eggs. Taking another step forward in the emerging world of citizen sensing the open-source...

Running on a combination of the Android and currently a Digilent chipKIT Max32 microcontroller (Arduino-compatible) comes OpenXC a collaboration between Ford Motors and Bug Labs that seeks to bring an API to your car. The platform is a...

Charalampos Doukas has released his new book that helps you build Internet of Things related projects utilizing the Arduino platform as a base.Description:In Building Internet of Things with the Arduino, you’ll learn the basic concepts and features of the Internet of Things and build...

Chris Anderson of Wired, Long Tail and DIY Drone fame posted this week about his recent mindset shift towards the Internet of Things becoming a real possibility. He references the continued strength of the Open Hardware movement and projects like Arduino as the main...

SENSEable City Lab and SNCF have produced CO2GO, a smartphone app that uses a combination of your phones built in GPS and sensor systems to calculate your total carbon footprint in real-time. The application is...

The Descriptive Camera created by Matt Richardson (@MattRichardson) as part of a Computational Camera class at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program takes an entirely new approach to photography and metadata by creating a device that turns your captured imagery into words via Amazon's Mechanical Turk service and a...

Building Simple Devices to Collect Data About the World Around Us A book By Emily Gertz and Patrick Di Justo focused on using Arduino to build environmental monitoring solutions has just been released by O'reilly publishing. ...

Robb Godshaw an Engineer at Syyn Labs has created a haptic weather forecasting device called the Cryoscope that allows you to actually feel what tomorrow's weather forecast will be like today. ...

iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory) in Brussels just completed "Generator.x 3.0 :from code to atoms" one of their openLAB workshops that focused on "how software processes can be combined with digital fabrication to produce physical objects that are the result of dynamic software systems...

From O'reilly Media comes the latest in installments of IOT related books. This one is written by Cuno Pfister and is called Getting Started with the Internet of Things: Connecting Sensors and Microcontrollers to the Cloud. ...

Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project which as most of you are well aware has become a big part of many IOT projects now and into the foreseeable future. He spent 4 years at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea as...

NODE: the bluetooth enabled handheld device from George Yu and his team at Variable Technologies is another Internet of Things project that has been fully funded on Kickstarter (Others include Twine, AirQualityEgg, NinjaBlocks, ReaDIYmate). The products basic elements include a gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer...

I would like to introduce you to Brad. He is a toaster and a member of a new breed of networked "addicted products" created by Simone Rebaudengo and Haque design+research that explore some new ground rules for their use: ...

Paraimpu is a social tool with the aim to allow people to connect, use, share and compose physical and virtual Things, services and devices to create personalized applications in the field of the Web of Things.

Created by Huaishu Peng and Yen-Chia Hsu at the Computational Design Lab at Carnegie Mellon comes the SENSEable shoes project. The shoes can identity and transmit information for 10 different gait patterns (standing, sitting, turning left, turning right,...

tōd (pronounced “toad”) is a new Bluetooth 4.0 smart beacon currently seeking manufacturing funding on Kickstarter (2/3 of the way there with 20 days to go as 5/13/2012) from the folks at RowdyRobot. The device is driven by a single coin battery, has an...

Spontaneous Interventions: design actions for the common good Organized by the Institute for Urban Design comes the exhibition details and call for projects for the U.S. Pavilion at this years International Venice Architecture Biennale that will take place...

The Spotify Box is the work of Jordi Parra as part of his final degree project at the Umeå Institute of Design. It was recently given a "Disrupting Concept" award at the 2012 interaction design awards and he is currently working out the...

David Bowen's project Tele-Present installation is beginning to show how art and real-time environmental data can be merged. This installation draws information from movement and intensity of the water in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data buoy station 46075 in the...

Foundry the research arm at Mint Digital has just released Molly, their follow up project to their smell producing robot Olly. Taking a little different of approach to bringing your social networking world into your physical world Molly...

Calling itself an "exercise in interface archaeology" the Tworse Key is a portable device created by Martin Kaltenbrunner that interprets your taps and outputs the final message via the Twitter API. It is connected to the internet...

Directed by Rodrigo Calvo, This film revisits the now infamous project Arduino and how it was launched in the Italian town of Ivrea back in 2005 at the Interactive Institute of Ivrea. Its only about a 1/2 hour in length and worth your time if...