Tag: food
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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…
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Open Sauces: A structured recipe notebook
It’s been busy in the android department this week. Here’s a prototype recipe notebook for open sauces. At this point it’s primarily a test of a drag/drop interface to make it possible for anyone to make the recipe graphs we explored visualising in October. I’m testing it with the recipes designed for FoAM’s recent Smoke…
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Open Sauces
Open sauces is a FoAM project to investigate the sharing of food, food culture and food systems. Last week in Brussels we started experimenting with ways to store, display and reason about recipes in different ways. Taking the recipes from the Open Sauces book we’re representing them as Petri Nets, which means we can feed…
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Building software for farmers
During the summer I’ve been working with the Swarm Knowledge Hub at Cornwall’s Duchy College. We’ve been building an android application that forms part of a scheme to highlight the value of organic fertilisers compared to costly and unsustainable synthetic fertilisers. The core of the software is a calculator based on tables provided by DEFRA…