Category: Weaving
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Penelopean robotics (part 2)
Penelopean robotics are about rebuilding technology in the woven cosmos. You can read more about the theory in part 1, but roughly our aims are to: Embody Penelopean technological practice – they should be easily undone (taken apart) so they can be understandable, self documenting and repairable. They are not automated looms, but must eventually…
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Penelopean robotics theory and the woven cosmos (part 1)
The Penelope project is concerned with many things, pattern structures in ancient poetry, comparisons of Andean and Greek mathematics, and the role of liveness in thought processes – to name just a few. We can also add robotics to this list. A weaver in action is often mistaken for a robot – perhaps it’s the…
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Further attempts at untangling tablet weave
One of the great unknowns following the first weavecoding project was the nature of tablet weave. Other than a few primitive attempts that didn’t work in all cases and lead us to further questions, modelling tablet weave fully was left as an undeciphered mystery. Tablet weave is a complex and particularly ancient form of weaving,…
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How to design a tangible programming language – Pattern Matrix at Algomech (part 2)
Once we acknowledge that weaving and programming are part of the same technological timeline, we can begin to look at the history of weaving as a eight thousand year long tale of human relationship with digital technologies – and use this long view to research new approaches to software engineering, a field with a much…
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Pattern Matrix at Algomech (part 1)
I’m writing this on the train with a slightly sleep deprived brain fizzing and popping from thoughts, ideas and conversations from this year’s Algomech festival in Sheffield. The Penelope project took a significant role in the festival, with the group’s participation in the Unmaking Symposium, the exhibition and also testing our latest weavecoding technology at…
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PCB design for pattern matrix 2
This is the pattern matrix 2 tangible sensor schematic, which is fairly simple – just 4 hall effect sensors and a capacitor to smooth out any noise on the power supply. We need to make hundreds of these for the Penelope Project, and we can save some costs by using the built in pull up…
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Pattern Matrix 2 haptic experiments
One of the potential future additions to our tangible programming hardware is haptic feedback, using sound/vibration to provide a extra channel of information through your fingers when programming with tangible blocks. We wanted to test this before designing the PCB hardware in case we could add it to the system simply – this was initiated…
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New pattern matrix developments
A few weeks ago we kicked off the new Penelope project, and while in Munich one of our first jobs was to deliver the prototype pattern matrix to the Museum of Casts of Classical sculpture for exhibition over the summer as part of our Penelopean lab. Our next mission in Cornwall is to design new…
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Pixelquipu installed at the Open Data Institute
Pixelquipu Inca Harddrives installed at the Open Data Institute (Weaving Codes/coding with knots, with Julian Rohrhuber at the Institut Fuer Musik und Medien) Part of their Thinking out Loud exhibition. Julian also built a sonification installation to play the quipu at different times of the day. Here’s a closeup:
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A tanglebots workshop report
I’ve tried a lot of different ways of teaching children programming, starting a few years ago with primary school children in a classroom, then doing inset training days for teachers and finally private tutoring in homes. For the finale to the weavingcodes project we are trying a new approach, teaching families about code, robotics and…