404 resonances. Cars and pages, not found. Not quite plate-of-shrimp; a different category of meaning-making. The above graph is from Golan Levin’s curious “The Secret Lives of Numbers” project, the image below a nicely composed hood shot of a Peugeot 404, the other 404 resonance object, captured by Adam Greenfield…

Privacy, modesty or cocooning?

Picked a couple of these “Ecowatt” devices up while in Tokyo, from Bic Camera. They monitor power consumption of whatever you’ve plugged into it. Here I had my MacBook Pro plugged in and running (no sleep) for about 24 hours. The device simply runs through four measurements — two I have no idea about because the sym…

I’ve been doing a bit of business trying to clean up my sometimes wonky skills with I2C communication. It took a bit to figure it out, but I managed to get a few different kinds of devices to the Atmel microcontrollers I usually use — things like a real-time clock, an LIS3LV02DQ accelerometer, these EEPROM devices.…

From my paranoia-fueled American mind, this is a curious context for small public storage lockers, immediately outside of the bustling entrance to the Shibuya train station in Tokyo. Whenever my cultural relativity hits a speed bump like this, I know I’m elsewhere.

The project here is to find ways to create a simple interface display element, as an experiment in subtractive features — removing things to create less bloat, less confusion. A return to fundamentals rather than feature creep. Not that a 4×5 matrix LED display would necessarily be an end-goal. Rather, what are the…

Summing up all the projects that seem to be perpetually in process, I’m beginning to wonder if I’m learning more about process, that is more enthralled with the doing rather than what specifically gets done, especially with the new techniques of design, tools, machines languages.

A variety of metal foil etched displays. These are super thin displays designed to be used in things like smart cards and credit cards, or laminated onto some other small, light weight device. Curious how the 8-segment displays feel a bit ancient, like old calculators.

A night out at a fancy Brazilian restaurant in Beverly Hills. The main interface instruments here are the card that can be turned to the green side for “bring me meat” or the red side for “pause..” Judicious control keeps a patron from a serious bout of indigestion. It’s very game-like, this experience. As soon as t…