Saturday, 3 March 2007



This is the most incredible thing I've ever seen with a lazer pen. The guys at the Graffiti Reasearch Lab have created L.A.S.E.R. tagging, a fast easy to set up way of projecting your tags on the streets.

UV Lights


Inspired by the group Random International, I have been looking into blacklights and there uses. I would really like to do something like with this simple, natural light source. The lamps and paints are relatively cheap, and the results are fun, and interactive. Have a look at the previous posts with the UV temorary graffiti. This idea of graffiti really appeals to me, and if everyone can have a go, thats brilliant.

Nabaztag take apart





http://www.nata2.org/2006/02/27/investigating-the-nabaztag/

This guy has managed to take apart the Nabaztag and has revealed its guts, and has tryed to discover its secrets. It uses a standard Benq wifi card, and has no obvious inputs that could be manipulated. This is why I have left the Nabaztag for dead, and leave him to tell me the weather, and read me the news in my bedroom. I don't think that it can help me to create an interactive hybrid of any kind, although I am sure that the source will eventually be opened up, either by some hacker or the company themselves. For now I will close my etude on this subject.

More Nabaztag research

http://www.ed-vero.com/nabaztag.html

This is a link that I found that details the information that the wifi rabbit sends and and its codes etc, this got me no further into discovering what I might be able to use this rabbit for, firstly because a lot of it is in french, and secondly because it only lists the code to get the rabbit to move his ears, and change the colour of its lights. This seems to be what most of the Nabaztag sites and blogs say, that the API is very limited and, it is not yet possible to do much with it, as it is still a fairly new product and the source is still closed.