Blog Bot Platform
Prototype Objects and Social Interaction via Web 2.0.
Blog Bot Platform is an open platform for creating blogging robots: Blog Bot Platform is a system, created with a Java program, that allows hobbyists to connect simple sensors to objects and give these objects 'voices' we can 'hear' via web 2.0 services, such as 'Twitter'. Hobbyists can attach the different sensors to objects they have an interest in, and allow them to broadcast messages through text micro-blogs. These stream of text messages are then encountered in the public timeline, enabling the objects to express themselves amongst the streams of other tweets.
Do we believe the physical condition of the objects or what the system expresses? How do we develop attachments to object when we encounter them through text streams.
Skills : Prototyping, Electronics (Basic Stamp + Arduino), Java Programing, Social Engagement, User Interaction Research, Interaction Design.
The Original Obejct One. Light Blogger Bot inside a user controlled environment which outputs it's thoughts via the Dot Matrix Printer.
Light Blogger Bot Hobbyists can attach light senor to plants in the wild they care about for them to act as beacons.
Strom Blogger Bot, whose vibration sensor can be used to intepret wind shaking through a trees branch.
Explorer Blogger Bot Uses the combined readings of an accelorometer to measure motion, what is the cat doing.
The Blog Bots broadcast and invade web 2.0, in this case Twitter. People can follow them and build realtionsships to them via this text feed.