I think I’m someone that has to have a couple of things on the go. Alongside thoughts about Digital Dowsing and the news that the Broadway in Nottingham is going to produce Soul Lines, I have been thinking about another strand to our GPS trace work ever since seeing …
logitech mouse circuitboard top
I’m just about to make the cuts I need to make to free the LED/receiver pairs from the mouse circuitboard. then ‘all I need to do’ (famous last words) is attach the black plastic rotary cogs to the dowsing rod and build a grip …
As the temperature has dropped somewhat here in Berlin, the nights draw in and there is a smack of Autumn in the air, I thought I’d get some fireside activities under way:
We had a bit of a difficult journey to Zutendaal involving a bus
replacement service between Aachen and Verviers but we finally made it
to Maastricht and then took a taxi to where we were staying, which was
a sort of Belgian Truman Show set
Ruby loves writing at the moment and her handwriting is changing all the time. This weekend she was wanting to know how to do everything joined up but last week, her style (above) reminded me of early Roman inscriptions, especially on the fringes of the Empire, perhaps at the tail …
Something that’s been in my mind since my ‘Going Solo’ residency is
how to (re)present walks, and if one should. Sometimes I think the
best artistic practice around walking is simply taking people on a
walk. I know Heimo Lattner and Martin Nachbar might agree… Still, as a …
Looking back to the last post about this subject, I realise how long things take for me to get round to them. Especially if I haven’t done anything like it before. My venture into the world of microcontrollers and open hardware (Arduino and friends) inched forward this week with …
We are getting increasingly attracted to older ways of visualising our GPS data - getting it out of the digital and especially screen realm and into tangible, haptic objects. Last week, after helping Martin print some data he is working on on Miles’s dot matrix printer which is still down …
I’ve been making progress with our pen
plotter since
I last wrote. Now
I’ve simplified the process and am working with some pens I’m very
happy with. After consulting with Christophe when I popped into the
friendly Open Design City Baustelmontag, I decided to take his
advice …
