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+ Moritz Waldemeyer presented his work on BBC2 the Culture Show last weekend. (Half way through more or less)

+ Usman is launching Pachube soon, sign up to be a beta tester.
“Pachube (pronounced “patch bay”) is a web service that enables people to tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices and spaces around the world.
The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual. Apart from enabling direct connections between any two responsive environments, it can also be used to facilitate many-to-many connections: just like a physical “patch bay” (or telephone switchboard) Pachube enables any participating project to “plug-in” to any other participating project in real time so that, for example, buildings, interactive installations or blogs can “talk” and “respond” to each other. ”

+ Bruce Sterling talks about the boring year ahead at LIFT

We’re once again very proud to sponsor the upcoming interaction design driven event thishappened. Unlike other conferences or events, this one focuses exclusively on the war stories of interaction design, something very close to our heart at Tinker.it.

The format of the event is simple: 10 minutes for each speaker on a project they have executed and what their learnings, struggle or accomplishments were along the way.

Having been to the previous 2 events, I’m happy to say this is one of the most representative event of the world of interaction design: service design, installation design, product design, interactive environments and more are themes that are addressed an continue to paint this growing field as rich and full of potential.

This time again a great set of speakers are lined up and I’m personally really looking forward to hearing from Schulze and Webb about their much anticipated radio project for the BBC.

See you there next week!

Finally! All the videos of participants projects are now on the project page. Enjoy!

Toy Hacking workshop from Tinker.it on Vimeo.

Thought I’d post this up (mostly to prove we do document a lot, I just haven’t had a lot of time to process all the nice vidoes we have and can’t wrap my head around the new version of iMovie) as a nice example of a simple circuit 2 students from Goldsmiths college Sonia Matos and Yuk Hui, put together during a 3 day workshop we organised with 5 different departments. Nice work!

The 4th Beginners Arduino workshop is now opened for registration. Lead again by Nick Weldin (see pics of the last one here) this one will take place on March 15-16th.

Tickets are £90 for professionals and £75 for students.

Register here! or follow us on the Upcoming page.

Check out this article in the Digital Artists Handbook on “embedded Single Board Computers (SBCs) and microcontrollers from birds eye view. ”

Very comprehensive and the rest of the handbook is a lot of fun.

Last weekend, the Arduino + Actuators workshop took place and Alex introduced us to the fabulous work of Edward Ihnatowicz in the area of Robotic art structures like the Senster.

Really worth checking out.

Next week, I’ll be attending The Social History of the Prototype a great one day seminar held at the University College London which “will examine the social history of the prototype in order to draw out the differences represented by present innovations in technology and manufacture and explore the earlier 18th and 19th century origins and contexts of development underlying current innovations.”

With guests like Tim Hunkin this is sure to be entertaining.

Even though they hired the guy with the movie trailer voice, its kinda neat and I can see applications for night time installations.

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We’re really proud to be able to offer the UK it’s first ever openFrameworks workshop on March 1st and 2nd 2008. We’re even getting the 2 founders of this great C++ library for creative code to come in from the US and the Netherlands to lead this 2 day intensive workshop.

(Thanks to Chris for triangulating this :)).

Update: Tickets are £140 and £95 for students. well that was fast! All sold out!

Sign up quick!.