I’ve been photographing some of my robots around the office. I love trying to make toys look menacing.
I’ve been photographing some of my robots around the office. I love trying to make toys look menacing.
Currently working on a blog post about Wall-E’s version of a ubicomp future for noodleplay, and I remembered an ebay auction I was watching. Sadly, the “Super Armatron” had been sold ($60 US, a little steep for my liking), but I figured the box was worth sharing. This “toy” reminded me of everything I love about vintage toys. Two ten-year-olds wearing lab coats dressed like scientists playing with a giant robot arm. The future looks really promising for those two.
The science fiction vision presented through toys in the early 80’s has such an incredible innocence to it. I guess that’s why I collect old robots.
Getting back into it
I recognize it’s been a while since I’ve last updated. It’s amazing how easy it is to lose your writing habit… thankfully it’s just as easy to pick it back up. Over the past two months of silence I’ve been continuing in the world of Arduino, Ubicomp, and picked up cause marketing as a new niche of Idea Couture work. More to come soon…
The new work space layout as we try to giveaway a ton of money for our client.
A few weeks back, Andrew Lockhart & I presented on behalf of the Social Purchasing Portal as part of the skills exhachange at NetChange Week at MaRS. I can’t find the entire video, but thought the condensed one was worth sharing.
Today, my desk is a mess of failed navigation schema attempts.
My first push button arduino sketch. This stuff is addictive.
Sketching for non-designers - A new post on Noodleplay.com
Designers learn the value of sketching early in their careers. Sadly, business practitioners never get the same experience. Hopefully this post reinforces the usefulness of sketching as a way to summarize a problem and iderate on thought-based solutions.
Color Concierge - Noodleplay.com idea exploration with KW
This is an idea exploration that KW & I worked on for the book No One Works Here. There’s a lot of thinking that went into this pretty simple iPhone app.
Hello World!
Managed to work my way through a few basic arduino programs last night. The adventure has begun. This is a photo of the first thing I got running - blink.
