Ready, set, go! After a difficult start things are really starting to move. Since a couple of weeks all the team members are working on their individual tasks: the database design, the interaction design, suit design, PCB design and experiment design. The project feels like a sort of organism that grows organically in different directions. […]
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Relief! The organisational problems reduce
Last week, I was busy with sewing the sketch of the Silence Suit. But I also was busy with the project in my head. I really was wondering how Danielle’s week would pass. Last time she seemed stressed and exhausted because of many organisational problems. So before I came this time I really hoped that […]
Introducing Meditation Lab Experimenter Kit
For over a year I’ve been working on a wearable which will track physiological and environmental parameters during meditation. The idea was to improve the quality of your meditation by changing aspects of your environment e.g. light, sounds or temperature. In the spring of this year the opportunity arose to apply for an open call […]
Introducing Silence Suit
For over a year I’ve been working on a meditation wearable. It measures biometric and environmental input. Its goals is to use the measurements to improve your meditation and use the data to generate artistic visualisations. The wearable is part of a bigger project Hermitage 3.0, a high-tech living environment for 21st century hermits (like […]
e-Textile and data visualisation
Report of the meeting “Wearables and data visualisation” 13-6-13 @ V2_ Present: Ricardo O’Nascimento and Danielle Roberts (organisers), Anja Hertenberger, Meg Grant, Beam van Waardenberg Skype: Annick Bureaud Program: – Introductions – Look at and discuss examples from the web collected in a Pinterest board (http://pinterest.com/docentnv/wearable-dataviz/) – Life demonstration – Discussion – Practical stuff When […]
breathing_time at the Quantified Self conference
On May 12th I lead a breakout session at the second European quantified self conference in Amsterdam. The goal was to exchange experiences in breath and group tracking and to demo the new, wireless version of the breathing_time concept. I started the breakout with an overview of the previous version. We soon got into a […]
non-woven wearable
Because I’m extending the breathing_time project into a workshop I’m doing some research on non-woven materials to make the cones from. The first version was made of paper and felt. It looked very nice but wasn’t very practical. Paper folds and crumbles easily. The felt on the face gets dirty and as it was glued […]
about breathing_time
For the TIK festival documentation I wrote an article about breathing_time: Background and concept Breathing_time was conceived as part of the Time Inventors Kabinet[1] project for which I was an invited artist. The idea behind this project was to use different ecological input for creating new notions of time. Right from the start I had […]
wind sensor demo
Yesterday we managed to get the first wind sensor working. Together with Richard I connected the sensor to the RBBB board, calibrated it and read some wind/breath data from the serial port into Processing. It works surprisingly well: I have already noticed that the distance from the sensor to the nostrils is critical. I’ll have […]
hardware progress
I’ve made some progress with the breathing_time hardware. Together with Richard (I was his ‘lovely assistant’) we soldered all the parts on a compact board. It will be much easier and more wearable to work with.