Sunday, May 15, 2011

Paris Visualizes Air Quality Via Color-Changing Balloon




Red balloon in Paris...
http://inhabitat.com/paris-visualizes-air-quality-via-color-changing-balloon/parisballoon3/

Massimo Silenzio – Installation




Massimo Silenzio - Installation from House42 on Vimeo.

Artist: Giancarlo Neri
Location: Circo Massimo - Rome
Period: 7 - 11 September 2007


Make Your Own Giant LED Balloons to Measure Air Quality



from http://inhabitat.com/



http://inhabitat.com/diy-make-your-own-giant-led-balloons-to-measure-air-quality/

Arduino EMF detector


Use an Arduino microcontroller to sense invisible electromagnetic fields using wire, a resistor, and an LED.

Aaron ALAI's EMF detector project is awesomely simple to make and fun to use. An upgraded version can be built using an LED bargraph for more 'meter-like' functionality.

original project can be found here -
http://www.aaronalai.com/emf-detector

additional info, and Arduino sketch -
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/05/making_the_arduino_emf_detector.html

Thursday, May 12, 2011

real time rome




Considering visualisation of phone calls...http://senseable.mit.edu/realtimerome/
from the clever senseable city lab people
working on WGTNLUX proposal