Leah Buechley is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Media Lab where she directs the High-Low Tech research group. The High-Low Tech group explores the integration of high and low technology from cultural, material, and practical perspectives with the goal of engaging diverse groups of people in developing their own technologies.
beaded LED bracelets
Spring 2005-present. Each bracelet, woven on a traditinoal bead loom out of beads, conductive thread and surface mount LEDs, is a 5x10 display matrix that can be programmed with animations like cellular automata and scrolling text. I strove to make the bracelets lovely with the electricity on as well as off; the most recent versions are almost as thin and flexible as traditional beaded jewelry, controlled with surface mount electronics and soft circuitry and powered with flexible Lithium-ion batteries.
These recent bracelets, built in spring 2007, function as motion-sensing, communicating wearable displays (older versions were displays only). Each new bracelet contains an accelerometer that senses wrist movement and a Bluetooth module for wireless communication. They can interact with laptops, PDAs and cell phones as well as each other and other wearables.
WIND BOARD Spring 2007. A combined input/output device captures and displays the wind. The board also functions as a two handed input device. The state of the grid is continuously transmitted to a computer via bluetooth. |
Amarino is a toolkit that connects Android-driven mobile devices with Arduino microcontrollers, making it easy to control objects in the environment with a phone.
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