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Workshop Archive: Amsterdam, Mediamatic

Mediamatic RFID and Physical Computing Hackers Camp @ Picnic 07

22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 september 2007

A great opportunity to realize your physical computing and RFID ideas for real - with a huge group of tagged people!
Mediamatic collected a group of great interaction designers and hackers, thought leaders in the industries around physical computing and the cultural application of RFID, to build creative prototypes and experiences around the unique opportunity of having around 2000 tagged conference guests, all linked through an online social network.

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The camp took place just before the Picnic 07 festival at the Westergasfabriek. The working projects created at the camp run throughout the conference interacting with, playing with and manipulating the approximately 2000 tagged festival attendees. The camp has realized highly innovative and creative applications of RFID technology, blending the physical and the digital into new kinds of hybrid experiences.

Gear

Mediamatic provided a variety of resources with which the campers could build the projects including input and output gear that could be hooked up to RFID, Bluetooth, WiFi and the other hard- and software available on the site.
And, of course, access to the database of Picnic's online social networking site containing all the data for all the registered attendees keyed to the RFID tags they have worn.
(Gear that Mediamatic provided will be strongly influenced by the interests of the attendees though there were certainly Arduino's, RFID readers, computers and other standard equipment.
More technical details are available for interested parties.)

When?

Time frame of this camp was Saturday 22 - Tuesday 25 September.

Who?

To keep things personal, the size of the camp was limited to between 20 and 30 hackers/designers/engineers.
Participants were invited for this camp by Mediamatic, but we had a few places available for other professionals.

Trainers

Project leader and main electronics trainer is Marc Boon, Robin Gareus teaches us about the anyMeta API and Andy Smith is there for hardware programming back-up.
Participants are furthermore assisted in realising their workshop projects by hardware hacker Audrey Samson, physical computeer Johannes Taelman and a group of volunteers to man their projects during the Picnic conference.

Costs

The workshop is free if we invite you, otherwise it is € 1200,- excl. VAT

Registration

For more info:
For questions, please contact Klaas Kuitenbrouwer at +31 (0) 20 638 9901

This workshop is possible thanks to the support of the MEDIA PLUS PROGRAMME.

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    Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp @ Picnic 07

    Esther Weltevrede –

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  • Construction time #2

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    Esther Weltevrede –

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  • Power naps

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  • 1

    iTea

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  • 4

    Badger

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    Willem Velthoven –

    We know that people carry RFID tags on their body, in their pockets and in their wallets. Many of these are in cards that have securely ...

  • 4

    Connection Cushion

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    Tim Olden –

    Connect to people ‘right here, right now’. Using the ‘connection cushion’, which is available at the conference, users can ...

  • 2

    Conversational Jukebox

    Spin your track on the conversational jukebox, influence the vibe in the room.

    Steve Alexander –

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  • Totempole

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    Marc Boon –

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  • 3

    PopularityTree

    aka the magic matching tree

    Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Deborah Meibergen –

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  • Construction time!

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    Esther Weltevrede –

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  • Construction time #3

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    Esther Weltevrede –

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  • PICNIC 07 owned by hackers

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  • 4

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    Take a photo, make a connection...

    Timo Dan Arnall, Einar Sneve Martinussen, Jørn Knutsen, Anne Helmond –

    A photo booth that encourages people to take photos of themselves with others. By touching tags to a number of interaction points ...

  • 1

    RFID racket reader

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    Mark Hoekstra –

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    Andy Smith –

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  • 3

    Exit Poll

    How did that make you feel?

    Mika Raento –

    We will add mood buttons by the exits for the talks/sessions. You get to vote how the session left you feeling. Each mood will be linked ...

  • 1

    MediaMemes

    Portable nodes showing fields of interest

    Dirk van Oosterbosch –

    A portable device, containing a scanner, a LED screen and a keyboard. Key(word)-users wearing a MediaMeme mingle amongst other visitors ...

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    Vlad Trifa –

    By tracking where the different users go (eg. events, talk they attend, bars, concerts, etc) and matching it with other users, people ...

  • Touch and plus.

    Combining the touch interaction with another action or event...

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    Touch and shake, touch and drop, touch and speak, touch and lift up.