A documentary (and other resources) about Arduino

Massimo Menichinelli — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:08:07 +0000

After some months of waiting, the documentary about Arduino (the most famous and successful Open Hardware project) is now finally ready and online at http://arduinothedocumentary.org/.
The documentary was made by Rodrigo Calvo Eguren y Raúl Díez Alaejos and it was commissioned by Laboral Centro de Arte, an exhibition centre for art, science, technology and advanced visual industries located in Gijon, Spain. Moreover, Laboral just opened a Fab Lab last November.

Other interesting resources about Arduino are:

Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?, an article written by Clive Thompson on Wired;
New Media Art, Design, and the Arduino Microcontroller: A Malleable Tool, a thesis written by Alicia Gibb.

Arduino The Documentary (2010) English HD from gnd on Vimeo.

Site-specific flock complexity design from Turin

Massimo Menichinelli — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:48:00 +0000

Back from Toshare.it, where I saw some interesting projects and met very interesting persons…

From there, I’d like to suggest you a project that shows how design could get inspiration from complexity. This is maybe the first step a designer could take confronting complexity, and therefore projects like this are not only fascinating but also promising for a new culture of complexity.

It is a simple adaptation of flocking algorithms for a site-specific video projection on an architecture (design-complexity-locality linked altogether?), designed by Turin-based Todo Design design studio.

Here is the project:

ARTIFICIAL.DUMMIES from todo.to.it on Vimeo.

And here is the design process…

Artificial Dummies, the process from todo.to.it on Vimeo.

These flocking algorithms come from the work of Craig Reynolds (where you can find a lot of links about flocking and swarm algorithms).

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A documentary (and other resources) about Arduino

Site-specific flock complexity design from Turin