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The Creative Peripherals Project: Color Orb
http://creativeperipherals.brucecannon.org/projects/orb/orb.htm
Site contents licensed under a. The Color Orb project is a very simple idea. Basically connect a full-spectrum LED to the desktop computer via USB and control it by sending standard hex triplets (#FFFF00 etc.). The resulting indicator can be used in an endless variety of ways to signal local and network events via color. It is more or less an autonomous and application-independent implementation of the color indication strategy behind Ambient Devices'. Pager network color objects.
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The Creative Peripherals Project: Animatronic Agent project
http://creativeperipherals.brucecannon.org/projects/agent/agent.htm
Site contents licensed under a. This is the most complex project I am currently developing in this series. It addresses a particularly interesting set of Creative Peripheral questions: why are there no robotic desktop computer peripherals? And a USB-serial chip. So a desktop computer can simply send timed text strings and the device will speak them. I am at the moment developing these devices in conjunction with a class I'm teaching at The Crucible in Oakland, California. The class is called Toy Hack...
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The Creative Peripherals Project
http://creativeperipherals.brucecannon.org/index.html
Site contents licensed under a. A public initiative to develop experimental USB hardware and software for desktop computers. This project has gotten much more complicated! I am now focusing on something much larger: a radio-Ethernet-server architecture which will allow one to simply link devices across the globe, and drive data to experimental signaling devices into your personal environment. For more information on the new product direction, visit my blog at aiosphere.com. Most of these works are so rud...
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The Creative Peripherals Project: FAQ
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Site contents licensed under a. This page is under construction. I'll try and anticipate as many of the questions about this series of projects as I can. When I miss one, let me know! Why design many single-function devices instead of a do-everything tool? Why not create a comprehensively multipurpose extension, instead of an open-ended series of idiosyncratic objects? What is the underlying USB interface? I am using the FTDI. What desktop platforms will be supported? The long term goals of this site are...
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The Creative Peripherals Project: Archaic Indicator
http://creativeperipherals.brucecannon.org/projects/archaic/archaic.htm
Site contents licensed under a. The Archaic Indicator is an antique meter purchased on Ebay and modified such that a simple ascii text string sent to it via USB determines the needle position. The resulting indicator can be used in an endless variety of ways to signal local and network events. I'll post the hardware design, protocol and software examples here in the next few months. Stay tuned.
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Learn Electronic Sculpture!
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Site contents licensed under a. Parts, Supplies and Resources. Coming soon: books, tools and parts needed to build the sculptures and machines in my courses. I welcome suggestions! Feel free to contact me. With questions or tips.
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The Creative Peripherals Project: Personal Display
http://creativeperipherals.brucecannon.org/projects/display/display.htm
Site contents licensed under a. The Personal Display project is very simple. It essentially takes a standard serial display, used frequently by case modders, and places it in an interesting and attractive housing to create both a functional experimental peripheral and a compelling desk objet. If they could control the backlight color and the text, it could get interesting. Additional typical applications include the tracking of network data, news feeds, etc.
