During these days I am working on a new template for this website. It is going to be less blog and more focused on my projects and activities. Anyway, I have been exhibiting my thesis project at frombusinesstobuttons conference and here is its abstract. I am going to update this review asap. Due to its sensitive nature, the graveyard is often an avoided problem space within the field of design. This becomes evident from the lack of...

I am currently working with Arduino to build the prototype for my thesis project. I have been really surprised by what you can do with it (in some sense, it is the contemporary way of DIY). Arduino is an “open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and a development environment for writing Arduino software”. You can programme it using Processing, which basically is a Java-based programming language,...

The new trend for bloggers seems to be the instant blogging: what are you doing right now. The community of Twitter.com allows you to get an account and share your thoughts by ‘twittering’ them on the net. The challenge is getting harder since I don’t really know how often one can update his thoughts. The risk is that you start twittering about everything is on your mind. The blogging rule though, seems this today:...

Urban Tapestries is a software platform developed by Proboscis, that combines mobile and Internet technology with geographic information systems to allow people to tag space with stories, pictures, sounds and videos. It aims at supporting the collaborative mapping and the sharing of knowledge in order to build new relationships between space and people. The system is composed by a client, installed on mobile phone or handheld, and a...

Did you like the conversation jacket? Good. Now we’re offering Y-O-U the chance to build your own one and try it. You can refer to the related post to see how it works. What you need: - mp3 player with shuffle\random function - a loud enough speaker - mp3 of the openers (you can download them here) You can download the ones with my voice and the one by andrew’s. Build your jacket and let me know what...