I’m continuing my quest for my mobile app. It’s at the heart of sharing the data I capture with my sensors. After I’ve started the program it should: Connect to the Arduino board very n minutes (2 for example) Arduino should start the sensors wait for a few seconds (they need heating up) loop through […]
Category Archives: AQAb
Python kick-off
Last week I did some research on Python for mobile devices. I was so enthusiastic about the documentation I found online and the apparent ease of the language that it was also clear to me what Smartphone I would buy. After quite some hesitation I decided to go for the Symbian based Nokia N97. It […]
About AQAb
This blog is about the design and creation is of a wearable that measures, displays and shares real-time air quality data. This wearable is developed during the wearables group at the digital lab in Den Bosch. This blog monitors the progress of this process. Ten blog posts were commissioned by the Media Art Platform. Parts of this […]
Art Pollution Kit
Last night I went to Brussels to watch the performance with the Art Pollution Kit. This is a project by Michal Kindernay and Gívan Belá (Guy van Bellen.) They are making a cheap or DIY kit for measuring different kinds of environmental values. The prototype they showed last night measured temperature, light, humidity and noise. […]
Building & talking
It was four weeks since the last workshop. Despite of the time span I didn’t have a lot of time to spend on the project but I was content with the research I’d done and was keen to show my findings to Anna Maria Cornelia. I also hoped to get at least one gas sensor […]
Design experiments
After the last workshop I went straight to the shop and bought some ‘equipment’ to experiment with. I especially like the tiny single punch and propelling pencil. I wanted to try different ways of working with paper in a portable way. Here’s a description of the things I tried. I guessed the air quality from […]
First sensor
Hmm, this afternoon at the lab was a bit frustrating. As a starter a lot went wrong with the purchase of the two AppliedSensor sensors and the temperature sensors. My order went wrong, twice. It was a national holiday on Thursday so I feared that the stuff wouldn’t be in by Saturday. But finally, at […]
Collaboration…
During the I-machine festival in Oldenburg, Germany I met Laura Beloff, who has lots of experience in working with wearables. As it happens she is heading a research and art project on climate change, in Lapland, Finland. At a later stage they’ll also be developing wearables for measuring pollution. She’s interested in collaborating with me. […]
Interface research
As soon as I left the last meeting I started sketching and thinking about ways to work with paper. I will use my findings in the experiments I’ll be doing about low-tech air pollution logging. I also did some research about the wearable interface. As I want an intimate tool, close to the body I found […]
Measuring gasses
I’ll have to make a choice of what gasses I want to measure. The government measures the following gasses at different locations in the Netherlands: SO2 Sulfur dioxide PM10 Particulate matter (PM) or fine particles NH3 Ammonia CO Carbon monoxide O3 Ozone NO NO2 Nitrogen Dioxide My choice will depend on the availability of the […]