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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 [email protected]
http://lifeproject.spacestudios.org.uk/GITHUB repository