two semesters ago marc nonnenmacher created a tangible information table about people’s worldwide economic situations. topic of my class at design factulty university of applied sciences wuerzburg-schweinfurt in cooperation with erich schoels was “museum 2.0“.
he used different coins as tangible interfaces. as soon as the coin was dropped on a country the information emerged around the coin.
his project will be published in output 11.
one important topic of my teachings is publication. only with a proper publication strategy the student’s projects will be recognized outside the university.
it worked out again. make: blog published some projects of the last semesters:
urban soundscape by altitude
more demanding plants: florakel
living interface
robotic lighting: luxation
the aura cabinet
update:
talking shoes
this semesters class is about minimal interfaces. we’re installing a complete new media lab underground in fh wuerzburg’s villa. there is enough money to buy iMacs, a tracking workstation, eeepcs, arduinos, sensors, mobile projectors, irobot creates and lego mindstorms, ..
here is an experiment about creating x3d worlds from real time online data.
x3d is xml. thus with some xslt every rss feed can be converted into x3d.
on a local mac or linux box that’s simple. using available online tools is more challenging. i tried yahoo pipes, google mashups and w3c’s xslt service. and here is the proof of concept:
1. use an rss or get some data together in pipes:
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?…
2. write an xslt stylesheet that gets the interesting parts from the rss and puts it into the right place in x3d. i.e. image links into the url field of a imagetexture. this xslt gets the title of the feed and puts it in a screentextoverlay in a foreground:
http://root.m05.de/rss2×3d.xsl
3. the translation can happen on a local computer or server. i used w3d’s webservice. the result is a short x3d file that prints the feed’s title in the foreground:
http://www.w3.org/2005/08/online_xslt/xslt?xslfile=…
unfortunately instantplayer does not load the file without .x3d ending.