Sensate Media — Multimodal Electronic Skins as Dense Sensor Networks
BT Technology Journal
Processing: programming for the media arts
AI & Society
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We present the "Honeycomb", a microcontroller platform that can easily be networked into hexagonal lattices of hundreds of nodes to create novel materials that tightly integrate sensing, actuation, computation and communication. The tool-chain consists of the platforms, a viral boot-loader to virally disseminate programs into the network, a software library that facilitates sensing, control, and communication, and software tools that allow interacting with the network from a host computer. After a brief tutorial, participants will have an opportunity to experiment with the Honeycomb hardware, which will be made available during the studio, write code for distributed processing of sensor information, and drive various actuators ranging from multi-color lights to servo motors, with the goal to construct an interactive installation to be displayed at the conference. All materials, including open source hardware and software will be made available on the web prior to the studio.