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The Life Project

Fiona French, Faculty of Computing

OpenLab Workshops: Psychological projection into

technology

SPACE Studios, Hackney

DON’T SWITCH ME OFF!

Concept / Brief

artists, designers, makers, musiciansinteractive ecosystem of machines

machine husbandry

InspirationConway’s classic Game of Life

Cellular automata show emergence and self-organisation

Evidence in nature

Hardware and software - £2500

Sensors, actuators, batteries, materials etc.

Jee-nodes – ATmega328p chip/processorwith four ports and wireless

OpenSource software

Technical

Emotional AI

FEED ME!

Proximity and mood

LIGHTS, MUSIC (no ACTION)

Representation

Communicating feelings

With each other… …and with sensors in environment

IR Serial Communication

Photo Resistorreceives infra-redTo pin on Jeenode

micro-controller To 10k pull-up resistorto power

LED broadcastsinfra-red

To pin on Jeenodesending serialto LED GITHUB

Patterns

Wireless to system - tracking data

The Conversation

With people

You scan a QR code, hit a URL … update a databaseread by a Processing app in SPACE Studios that can broadcast short-range wireless data to the appropriate Creature to feed it…

…and it links you to Creature’s twitter account

where you can see it tweeting “thank you” …

Feeding Time

Tweets

Or you move creatures around...

Teamwork

Concept art

SkinsRecycle materialsCommunity involvement

Crafting Creatures

Prototypes

Process, engagement with technology

Happy cave

Antisocial forest

Surprise rocks

Where do we live?

Environment

Exhibition Showcase at SPACE13-14 Oct 2011

EVA London 2012

Come and play with the prototypes at EVA London 201210-12 July, BCS

Fiona French f.french@londonmet.ac.uk

http://lifeproject.spacestudios.org.uk/GITHUB repository