May 18, 2015
On things and the internetdesign and technical considerations for the ground-up Internet of Things
BarCamp London 6, March 29th 2009
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, CEO & Co-Founder of Tinker.it!
Just Alex
Canadian
Product & Interaction designer
www.designswarm.com
Founded Tinker.it! in 2007 with Massimo Banzi, co-founder
of the Arduino project.
www.tinker.it
Somewhere between the creative industries and technologyprovision: interaction design & physical computing
Offices in London & Milan, 10 people, lots of Haribo.
My head at the moment
DIY tools and mentality
Open source hardware & software
Home automation & Smart homes
Economic downturn & Product innovation
Connected devices & Internet of things
Ubicomp & The Creative Industries
Ethernet & Internet
Internet of things
1990 - Networked Coke machine - Xerox park
1998 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol - The Internet Society2001 - Smart fridge concept announced by Tesco2001 - Orange at home- Smart homes2005 - Shaping Things - Bruce Sterling 2005 - Arduino is born - Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy
2006 - Nabaztag is launched - Violet2006 - iPod + Nike is launched - Apple2006 - Everyware - Adam Greenfield2006 - LIFT - Blogject workshop - Julian Bleecker & Nicolas Nova2006 - Near field interactions workshop, NordiCHI, Oslo
2007 - Whattson - DIY Kyoto2007 - iPhone is launched - Apple2007 - Xbee takes off with Making Things Talk - Tom Igoe2008 - Pachube is out of alpha2008 - Arduino Ethernet shield is launched
2008 - Nick O’Leary at IBM gets his Current Cost meter hooked up2009 - TinkerKit development is announced2009 - Tom Taylor gets his micro printer to talk Twitter
Me
My stuff
My home
My city
My people
Diagram 1
Internet
World
Simplification
Notifications
Data gathering
Notifications Device
Diagram 2
Top down
Internet enabledWill everything have a socket?
Homes aren’t made to be smartMark Cowper - Ethelburga Tower: At home in a high-rise
Bottom up
Aggregation
Programmability?
Building Blocks
It’s all in the hackingNicholas O’Leary ‘s Ambient Orb
It’s all in the hackingCurrent cost meter hookup to Arduino
It’s all in the hackingAdrian McEwen’s Twitter to bubble machine
Levels of problem-solving & design
Levels of privacy
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, CEO & Co-Founder of Tinker.it!
www.tinker.it // [email protected]
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