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Tangible programming: detecting flip, rotation and id with magnets
When we started designing the pattern matrix we wanted to include the possibility of encoding more than binary (which side is up) using the magnets. In order to test this, we made the bottom row of sensors with 4 in a square – the rest only have one sensor currently (to avoid blowing the budget…
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Foam Kernow open studio night
Some photos uploaded here from our open studio evening at Jubilee Warehouse (thanks to Andy Smith for the decent ones!). This was mainly an opportunity to invite old and new friends to have some food and a chat, Francesca ran a challenging taste experiment in the vein of Open Sauces and we had a number…
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Ellen Harlizius-Klück – Textile MATRIX
Next week the weaving codes project assembles in the Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke in Munich. We’ll be working for a few days surrounded by these characters to get us in a classical mood: The museum is hosting Ellen’s ‘Textile Matrix’ exhibition, a crossbreeding of logical science, religion, crafts and visual arts. The word ‘matrix’…
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Pattern matrix – putting it together
Here is a member of staff at Miners Court trying some tangible weave coding in the midst of our crafts area – at the moment it’s simply displaying the weave structure on the simulated warp weighed loom with a single colour each for warp and weft threads, the next thing is to get ‘colour &…
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Future Thinking for Social Living: Weavecoding in assisted housing
Our work on weavecoding is now reaching out to other uses and projects. One is Future Thinking for Social Living, run by Magda Tyżlik-Carver and Fiona Hackney. This research project aims to look at the relationship between wellbeing, home, making and technology and is centred on Miners Court, who provide assisted housing in Redruth in…
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More kite based UAV toolkit action
Some further kite testing with UAV Toolkit last week at Gwithian beach, with a strong offshore wind (and rather good looking surf too). We managed to max out the kite altitude and get some great photographs including surfers and flocks of birds. See the previous kite post for more details on the kite. I’ve also…
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Loose threads from weavecoding
Midway through the weavecoding project and our researches have thrown up a whole load of topics that either don’t quite fit into our framework, or we simply won’t have time to pursue properly. Here are some of the tangents I’ve collected so far. Coding with knots: Khipu One of the cultures I’m increasingly interested in…
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Easter Python/Minecraft programming day at dbsCode
Thursday saw our second dbsCode Easter programming taster, and like last year we focused on minecraft programming with our procedural architecture api. The main change this time was that for the 20 11-16 year old participants we doubled our teachers to 4 (Glen Pike, Francesca Sargent and Matthew Dodkins and me), plus a couple of…
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Kite mapping with UAV toolkit
Some photos taken by the UAV toolkit on a recent flight at our gyllyngvase beach test site, using a KAP foil 1.6 kite instead of a drone. Kites have many advantages, no flight licences required, no vibration from engines and a fully renewable power source! We’re using a 3D printed mounting plate for the phone…
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Training teachers in coding at Truro School
I’m part of a UK Department of Education funded project to join up 10 primary schools in Cornwall and get them programming. The teachers are very important people in this equation, so our first activity was a training day for them. The idea of this was to get them familiar with using the Raspberry Pi…