on things and the internet

On things and the internetdesign and technical considerations for the ground-up Internet of Things

BarCamp London 6, March 29th 2009

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, CEO & Co-Founder of Tinker.it!

Just Alex

Canadian

Product & Interaction designer

www.designswarm.com

Founded Tinker.it! in 2007 with Massimo Banzi, co-founder

of the Arduino project.

www.tinker.it

Somewhere between the creative industries and technologyprovision: interaction design & physical computing

Offices in London & Milan, 10 people, lots of Haribo.

My head at the moment

DIY tools and mentality

Open source hardware & software

Home automation & Smart homes

Economic downturn & Product innovation

Connected devices & Internet of things

Ubicomp & The Creative Industries

Ethernet & Internet

Internet of things

1990 - Networked Coke machine - Xerox park

1998 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol - The Internet Society2001 - Smart fridge concept announced by Tesco2001 - Orange at home- Smart homes2005 - Shaping Things - Bruce Sterling 2005 - Arduino is born - Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy

2006 - Nabaztag is launched - Violet2006 - iPod + Nike is launched - Apple2006 - Everyware - Adam Greenfield2006 - LIFT - Blogject workshop - Julian Bleecker & Nicolas Nova2006 - Near field interactions workshop, NordiCHI, Oslo

2007 - Whattson - DIY Kyoto2007 - iPhone is launched - Apple2007 - Xbee takes off with Making Things Talk - Tom Igoe2008 - Pachube is out of alpha2008 - Arduino Ethernet shield is launched

2008 - Nick O’Leary at IBM gets his Current Cost meter hooked up2009 - TinkerKit development is announced2009 - Tom Taylor gets his micro printer to talk Twitter

Me

My stuff

My home

My city

My people

Diagram 1

Internet

World

Simplification

Notifications

Data gathering

Notifications Device

Diagram 2

Top down

Internet enabledWill everything have a socket?

Homes aren’t made to be smartMark Cowper - Ethelburga Tower: At home in a high-rise

Bottom up

Aggregation

Programmability?

Building Blocks

It’s all in the hackingNicholas O’Leary ‘s Ambient Orb

It’s all in the hackingCurrent cost meter hookup to Arduino

It’s all in the hackingAdrian McEwen’s Twitter to bubble machine

Levels of problem-solving & design

Levels of privacy

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, CEO & Co-Founder of Tinker.it!

www.tinker.it // alex@tinker.it

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