Tag Archives: Data Shadows

Trackmate: an open-source visual marker framework for tangible computing

Noted for future reference:

Trackmate is an open source initiative to create an inexpensive, do-it-yourself tangible tracking system. The Trackmate Tracker allows any computer to recognize tagged objects and their corresponding position, rotation, and color information when placed on a surface.

Trackmate uses a small, specially designed circular barcode that [...]

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Playing with Touchatag

I just received my Touchatag kit in the mail.

I installed the software, plugged in the USB reader, and was immediately able to turn my Field Notes notebook (a souvenir from PaperCamp NY 2009) into a physical hyperlink.

So, now, if I wave my notebook at the reader, my flickr photostream opens in a browser. Ta da.

After [...]

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Geeking out around the house

Geeking out around the house, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.

Lately, I’ve been doing the exercises in Making Things Talk.

I put some pictures here.

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Paper Bits - Request For Comments

Moo QRCode Stickers, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.

Although I’ve got a DYMO printer, I thought I’d test and see how well Moo stickers would work with the current geohash generator.

The stickers are gorgeous, and perfect for, say, putting in the margins of a book or on a printout.

But they’re a bit small, which means [...]

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What I did over vacation

This last week, I was invited by Dave Gray to the 2008 Sarasota International Design Summit.

There really is too much to summarize in a single post, but here are some of the highlights as I saw them.

People

I had the honor of meeting and befriending some amazing folks. A partial list:

Jennifer Magnolfi, Matt Jones, Timo Arnall, [...]

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Hello, World

This is me playing with a brutally simple hack:

There is nothing, really, to see when the link is clicked. For now.

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More on “Social Objects”

Alex De Carvalho, via Twitter:

I, too, find [Social Objects] a useful paradigm for web service design and community building.

Stop me if I’m wrong, but this is what I got out of the concept: A social object is something that you care about enough to form a social bond around. It’s an interesting, external [...]

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a (very long) conversation with dopplr’s matt jones « Second Verse

Here, have a (very long) conversation with dopplr’s matt jones « Second Verse:

MJ: Well - let’s dial back the Delorean a little to Jyri’s coinage of “social objects.” He was coming at it from social science, specifically “Actor-Network Theory” where sociologists consider everything to act on everything else - people, [...]

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Pale Fire

(I have a bug in my ear about a particular project that I’d sketched, kind of forgot about, rediscovered, and keep on revolving around to. Lucky you, you get to hear about it.)

Vladimir Nabokov wrote on index cards, and this enabled him to create wonderfully nonlinear books. One of my favorites is Pale Fire, a [...]

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Printer as social letterbox

Jack Schulze and Matt Webb have been on fire, lately. They’ve got a new blog, Pulse Laser (after the classic C64 game Elite). And in the first week or so, they’ve managed to write a bunch of things that made my inner design geek stand up and wave its little antennae around.

(I envision my inner [...]

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    Rorschach

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    The new Negroponte switch

    Stuff on my desk…