Charging My Siftables - a photo on Flickriver

New video of Siftables posted on the TED2009 site featuring David Merrill using them as a music sequencer:

tinyurl.com/dc6cqf

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I picked up my Siftables from David Merrill in a padded shipping envelope at the Media Lab last week. In addition to the three Siftables, the envelope was full of little plastic bags of parts and loose cables. I went to the Container Store today to pick up an ArtBin parts box so that I can keep everything organized and presentable. To make room for the USB hub and AC adapter, I Dremeled out one of the dividers with a cut-off wheel. Next step is to spend some time reading the tech notes on the project wiki and practice downloading Python scripts into the devices. I also need to pick up an AVR programmer.

More on Siftables:

"Imagine overturning a container of nuts and bolts, then looking through the resulting pile for a particular item. Or spreading photographs out on a tabletop and then beginning to sort them into piles. During these activities we interact with large numbers of small objects at the same time, and they utilize all of our fingers and both hands together. We humans are skilled at using our hands in these ways, and can effortlessly sift and sort - focusing on our higher level goals rather than the items themselves.

Siftables aims to enable people to interact with information and media in physical, natural ways that approach interactions with physical objects in our everyday lives. As an interaction platform, Siftables applies technology and methodology from wireless sensor networks to tangible user interfaces. Siftables are independent, compact devices with sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication capabilities. They can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media. Siftables can be used to implement any number of gestural interaction languages and HCI applications."

web.media.mit.edu/~dmerrill/siftables.html

Slick demo video by MIT:

labcast.media.mit.edu/?p=25

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Taken on: August 9, 2008

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