bee lab presentation by robert phillips

Dexter, 2013

Just because it’s open, does it mean it is good?

Rob Phillips Daniel Charny Hilary Geoghegan Jess Price Tom Hulme Steven Bamford

@rob_dphillips@danino@DrHG@SussexWildlife@thulme@thebamf

Open design is “A movement of fabrication that is democratising manufacture to the user, enabling them to create personal products in the future”.

Malone, Lipson, 2007.

Textile patterns

Additive Subtractive

Design ToolsDigital Manufacture Accessible hardware

openstructures.net

Citizen Science is “The participation of non-scientists in the data collection for scientific investigation”.

Lee, Quinn and Duke, 2006.

www.birds.cornell.eduwww.airqualityegg.com

www.publiclab.orgwww.teklalabs.org

"1 in 3 bites of food is thanks to pollinators, contributing £14.2bn to EU economy"

Langworthy G, Henein M. 2009. "The vanishing of the bees" 1st ed. USA: Hive Mentality Films.

observation / research

observed mutual data

If your beehives could talk, what would you like it to tell you?

Design / Make / Research

beelab.org @beelab_open

BEE LAB

The project

What’s in the kit

PCB4050B Hex

Non-Invertor

INA 125 IC

RTCClock Mount

LCD Mount SD Mount

16 DIL Socket

Screw TerminalTemperature +Humidity Sensor

SD Card Reader Clock

Screw Terminal

Capacitors ARTMEGA Socket

Regulator

Push Button

Regulator

LCD Screen

Load Cell

Force Sensor

220 Ohms Resistors

1K Resistors

1M Resistors

4K7 Ohms Resistor

3.3 Ohms Resistor

Switch

Weight of beehive, weight of feeder, temperature /

humidity and weather

Victoria & Albert Museum Digital Design weekend 2013

“A world full of crapjects and blobjects”Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things, 2005

This work was supported by RCUK through the Horizon Digital Economy Research grant

(EP/G065802/1)

Just because it’s open, does it mean it is good?

Rob Phillips Daniel Charny Hilary Geoghegan Jess Price Tom Hulme Steven Bamford

@rob_dphillips@danino@DrHG@SussexWildlife@thulme@thebamf