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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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, [...]
This is me playing with a brutally simple hack:
There is nothing, really, to see when the link is clicked. For now.
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 [...]
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, [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
