Interactive Device Design

Articles and links tangential or directly related to the course I'm teaching at UC Berkeley School of Engineering, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation

indi young – researching the problem space
indiyoung.com
Acquire solid knowledge of your problem space so you can support more people & contexts, build better algorithms to serve a broader set of people, …
Salesforce
Salesforce Chief Product Officer: Only 15% Of Companies Prepared For Fourth Industrial Revolution
Forbes - John Koetsier
In the beginning was steam. Then electricity, and most recently computing. But the fourth industrial revolution, Salesforce chief product officer Bret Taylor says, is characterized by the rise of intelligence.
Dynamicland
dynamicland.org
Our mission is to incubate a humane dynamic medium whose full power is accessible to all people. No screens, no devices. Just ordinary physical materials …
SAP Leonardo Community Backs Kiva Entrepreneurs in openSAP Partnership
sap.com - Jacqueline Prause
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets,” Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci once said. True to …
In Just 7 Words, Apple CEO Tim Cook Shows Why the Future of Apple Might Be Doomed
Inc Magazine - Yazin Akkawi
Apple just announced a lot of exciting new products and features. But here's why Tim Cook's long-term vision might fall short. At Apple's Special Event on Tuesday, the company unveiled its latest smartphone--known
Syllabus sharing: Electronics and Sculpture, a class with arduino, mechatronics, and art at UWM
nathanielstern.com - nathaniel
The Arduino Uno microcontrollerThis term sees my first time teaching a full semester of Arduino in the Department of Art and Design at the University …
The best smart pill dispenser (so far)
Engadget - The Sweethome
This post was done in partnership with The Sweethome, a buyer's guide to the best homewares. When readers choose to buy The Sweethome's independently chosen editorial picks, it may earn affiliate commissions
Why you'll wear a body camera
ampproject.org - Mike Elgan
InfoTrends says people will take 1.2 trillion digital photos this year. That's 100 billion more than last year and nearly double the number taken as …
Open House
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$9 Internet Of Things Integrated Platform Unveiled
geeky-gadgets.com - Julian Horsey
Bolt a new Internet of Things integrated platform specifically created for fast development and deployment of IoT projects has been unveiled this …
At Apple's new summer camp, high school kids can build the next big thing
The Verge - Lauren Goode
In a nondescript Apple office building in Cupertino, California, a group of engineers has spent the past four weeks working feverishly on the next big thing in consumer hardware, prototyping a water-saving
Designers Are Forgetting One Major Element Of The Design Process
Fast Company - Katharine Schwab
What do you do with broken products? You fix them. Chances are, you toss it and buy another one. It’s only a toaster, after all. But what if your toaster was designed so that it’s easy to fix? What if
A Cheap, Simple Way to Make Anything a Touch Pad
MIT Technology Review - Rachel Metz
Spray paint and electrodes can add touch responsiveness to everything from a wall to Play-Doh. How would you like a toy, steering wheel, wall, or …
Roadie Automatic Guitar Tuner | Tune any string instrument in Seconds
roadietuner.com - Band Industries
Tune your electric, acoustic, classical, bass guitars, ukulele and more in just seconds. Experiment with a variety of alternate tunings or create …
Your Pioneering Project Could Earn a Rolex Award for Making a Significant Impact
MAKE - By Forrest M. Mims III
Featured Image: Andrew Bastawrous’ Portable Eye Examination Kit (Peek). Photo courtesy of Rolex The pages of Make: are consistently filled with creative projectsprovided by the magazine’s contributors.
This ‘third thumb’ is the unnecessary prosthetic of my dreams
The Verge - James Vincent
Dani Clode is a grad student at London’s Royal College of Art (RCA) and her latest creation is something called The Third Thumb: a 3D-printed prosthetic that does exactly what its name suggests. “The of
Ikea's Idea Man Reveals How to Discover Your Own Million-Dollar Idea
Inc Magazine - Chad Perry
The process is called vu jàdé. That's déjà vu backwards, and anyone can do it. His company counts the who's who of global brands as clients -- Apple, Bank of America, Ikea, and Microsoft (to name a few).
Design in the Era of the Algorithm
bigmedium.com - Josh Clark
This is the prose version of a talk I gave in May 2017 at Pixel Up! in Capetown and at An Event Apart in Boston. It riffs on ideas I first explored …
Things that don’t work yet
medium.com - Dan Hill
What is a musical instrument? Roli, a London-based startup, has devised several devices over the last few years that each explore this question. Its …
Maker Faire New York 2013 Electronics Stage: Arduino NFC
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What's the difference between RFID, NFC and BLE?
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NFC - The Complete Guide (Explanation & Demonstration)
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Amazon's Plan to Build a Kickstarter Knockoff Turned Into a Site That Helps Startups Sell Products
Entrepreneur - Eugene Kim
In 2015, a group of Amazon employees kicked around ideas for a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding site. The idea didn't get very far, as they soon learned that the market was already crowded. Instead, they
GE: 3D Printing Opens A ‘New, Unlimited Dimension’ For Manufacturing
gereports.com - GE Minds + Machines
Carlos Haertel, who runs the GE Global Research center in Munich, says additive manufacturing technologies like 3D printing are opening a “new, …
Rise of the machines: who is the ‘internet of things’ good for?
The Guardian - Adam Greenfield
Interconnected technology is now an inescapable reality – ordering our groceries, monitoring our cities and sucking up vast amounts of data along the way. The promise is that it will benefit us all – how
A Student’s Guide to UC Berkeley’s Startup Ecosystem (2018–19 Update)
hackernoon.com - David Tao
When I came to Cal, I was excited by the campus’s spirit of innovation and knew I wanted to start my own company. However, despite the ample …
Educating A Maker: The Berkeley Perspective
Forbes - Rakesh Sharma
There is a different sort of Maker being shaped at UC Berkeley. “The question is no longer: can we make it (a product)?” says Dr. Bjoern Hartmann, assistant professor at the University and instructor the