Various interpretations of the term ‘digital divide’ and the causes and consequences of such divides In the following article I would like to make a case for how to best interpret the term “Digital Divide”. The term has been used widely since the late 1990’s and has grown to include a variety of meanings. While…
After attending the EYEO conference this year and hanging out with Fire Friends I was inspired to challenge myself to creating a daily data visualization during the month of July. As it happens, I’m in the south of France & London for most of the month and I’d like the visualizations to center around our…
This past week Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center has been filled with artists, coders, and interactive intelligentsia from around the world for the Eyeo Festival. What is Eyeo? a media art, interaction and information conference? Is it creative coding? Is it a data visualization conference? Is it design? Storytelling? “Yeah,” said festival co-founder Dave Schroeder, addressing…
After a few attempts I was able to install a Minecraft server on one of my Raspberry Pi. I don’t want to sugarcoat it but it wasn’t too difficult thanks to this shell script from kraftyhosting.eu. Thanks KM_James! The initial minecraft tests were decent and I was able to have others log in from remote…
I’ve made a list of services and selected the one that seemed to be the most suitable for the Raspberry Pi. Here’s what I hope to install: Raspberry Pi Linux distribution : I need an optimized distribution that is minimalist to install after the maximum of services. I found the distribution Moebius . Once installed…
I’m guessing that many of you found Raspberry Pis under the tree this morning and are eager to start hacking around with it. The Make Blog has compiled a list of a few of their favourite quick tips that may come in handy as you explore the platform. Some of these might be old hat…
I’ve been tinkering around with a flexible little micro-processor called RaspberryPi for a few weeks now and would like to share some instructions on how to get it running. The Raspberry Pi is a $35 linux computer, it fits in the palm of your hand and is a handy bit of hardware for prototyping your…
To understand the notion of ‘Post-Digital’ I have written this short formal essay to represent my perspective on a conceptual exploration I have been on with a few fellow professors over the past year. This is strickly my position in a mental exercise that Vjeko Sager, Duane Elverum and I agreed to participate in and…
Currently with OSX Lion there seems to be a problem with Processing talking to Arduino, it turns out it’s a mismatch of RXTX libraries. When running my Processing sketch the following error can occur: WARNING: RXTX Version mismatch Jar version = RXTX-2.2pre1 native lib Version = RXTX-2.2pre2 1. Download the latest RXTX library from http://rxtx.qbang.org/…
I had the weirdest comical back-and-forth with someone trying to sell their bike to me, I thought it would be funny to share it. Here’s the quick backstory: I saw a posting for a bike for sale at the university that I teach. I tried a number of times to phone the number posted but…