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Lies, Damn Lies and Advertising
Passing the McDonald’s in Kreuzberg the day before yesterday, the one they were allowed to build directly opposite a sixth-form college (Fachhochschule), I saw that they were shooting a video. For this video, they’d taken the normal green fence down and replaced it with a line of potted …
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Capture Batch Script updated
Looking back the other day at this post, I remembered that it had somehow stopped working on the eeepc. I suspected this had something to do with vlc and was always bothered anyway about using such a big, fully-featured programme in non-gui mode for such a simple task. Breaking a …
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Plant sensors
As Martin and I were walking, I was struck again by the idea that we are surrounded by sensors in the form of plants. Even in the heart of a city, there are plants that we share the urban environment with which cannot move and so are experts of their …
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Map and chart mashup
This is an attempt to visualise the sensor output against the gpx file.
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Walk with Martin in Adlershof
Yesterday, 5 May, Martin and I met at Treptower Park at 14:00, took the S-Bahn to Adlershof and walked through that interesting landscape, destined to be Berlin’s science park which, thanks to economic meltdown and lack of investment, went off half-cocked, making for the unique look of named …
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Two More Logs
Just about to go for a walk with Martin in Adlershof, (more later), but just before I step out, I’m going to post these two logs with his sensor board. I’ll probably update this post later when I’ve talked to him
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Logging with Martin’s sensors
I met Martin Howse again yesterday at our studio and had another great talk to him about his work, part of which he calls ‘psychogeophysics‘. I’m really interested in the way quite simple logging can mean quite a lot if you have enough data. I’m reminded of the …
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Data Visualisation by a five-year-old
Our daughter Ruby proudly bought back the drawing below for us to look at. It is a piece of data visualisation displaying all the colours in the new coloured pencils at her kindergarten. You can see the key on the top left.
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Pixelated Moustache Yarn Bomb, anyone?
A pixelated moustache yarn bomb (my first yarn bomb sighting) seen in Bristol on the Prop Weir Bridge BS3 1
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Thanks, neighbourhood knitter, it brightened up my wintry morning walk greatly
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Python script that reads GPS log files and sends values via OSC
This is the companion post to the one below, (Python script that sends live GPS values over OSC). It is for people who don’t have a GPS to attach but want to experiment with the kind of values you get from one. The script in the other post produces …
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