Edge hack day
Markus | Jul 21, 2010 | 2 comments
A number of the current residents and catalysts got together with PhD students from QUT’s Urban Informatics group to work with the newly released Edge public power consumption data. The ideas was to find new and creative ways of visualising the energy consumption at the Edge.
We had some excellent activities which included hacking Edge-labelled LED power buttons, creating a clock-like Arduino-based usage display, OSC-based input simulations, a Quartz visualisation and a Flash-based display.
We are currently thinking about making this a regular event and opening it up to a wider audience.
More photos can be found here.
Filed Under: Urban computing
bsirianni
Markus
markbilandzic
I had a really great time!
Great day of work in my opinion, thanks for running it
Perhaps build a water fall in a tube, and have the pump linked to a circuit that controls it’s speed relative to the power usage in the building at the time. Really gives visual impact to the idea of a trickle of power.