January 25, 2012 | Category: blinkm

With the great help of ThingM, the Legend Performance Cheer box is the next generation of Cheerleading equipment. Using injection molded ABS and a collapsible design, the Legend cheer box gives you minimal weight and high performance all packaged into a highly portable and easy to carry accessory. This box has gone through two other versions that focused on collapsibility and safety. But the real innovation takes place with the use of LEDs. The legend box uses an array or LEDs on the face to give you customized graphics and animations. I consulted the help of Tod E. Kurt to help design and implement the the LED board. Running on the Arduino platform, strip LED lighting was reconfigured into a [...]

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December 31, 1969 | Category:

Here is the transcript of my dorkbot talk. You can download the complete Powerpoint file from Slideshare or get an 800K PDF with all of the images and a transcript of the talk. Information is a Material Mike Kuniavsky dorkbot San Francisco July 7, 2010 Thank you Karen for inviting me back to present. It’s always a pleasure. First, let me tell you a bit about myself. Most of my professional career over the last 17 years has been spent as a creative director, interaction designer, researcher and user experience strategy consultant, mostly on the Web. I’ve worked with hundreds of companies. Among those I have had extended relationships with these three, the bottom two as a founder. ThingM is my current company. Most of this talk comes from a chapter in my upcoming book, called “Smart Things”, it’s on ubiquitous computing user experience design. It’s available for pre-order now and will ship sometime between the end of August and the middle of September. Peak MHz I want to start by mentioning a curious phenomenon. If you any of you follow developments in microprocessors, you’ll notice that the clock speed of today’s new CPUs is basically the same as that...

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July 25, 2011 | Category: blinkm

Sometimes you just want a little extra light in a room. With RGB LED tape, you can put light anywhere. But controlling its brightness and making it the color you want is a bit harder. A BlinkM MaxM can easily control LED tape, either as a stand-alone device, with an Arduino, [...]

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