And don't worry I won't spam you, it's just to let you know when you can get one.
We have a shared music machine in our studio. Anyone can put anything on they want at any time, no rules. It’s a democratic system that seems to work 99% of the time. But occasionally the system fails and that’s what inspired me to build this poster.
When the balled up paper hits the poster spotify skips to the next track
I’m interested in the potential of interactive design – and in taking that off the screen and into the real world. The poster looks good enough to put on the wall, functions as a target, and when someone puts on a tune you’re not keen on you can just throw a bit of paper at it and Spotify will skip to the next track.
The technology behind it is very simple. There is a knock sensor taped to the back of the poster that registers the paper hitting the front. This passes a signal to the attached Arduino board which is plugged in to the music computer and advances the music one track.
This has had an amazing reaction, thanks everyone for helping spread the word. It's now been featured on:
Gizmodo
Time
Adweek
Discovery
Fast Company
And lots of other places as well. Bloody hell.
As part of the nike78 project I was asked to challenge the function of a pair of nike trainers. Nike+ 26 shoes have 26 lights embedded in them so anyone can see how far you've run.
1 light for every mile
I built the shoe using an Arduino Nano and 26 LEDs. It can sense movement in a basic way, but would need to be hooked into Nike+ to work fully. See nike78.co.uk for more details about the project and Creative Review for an overview of some of the work.
"Designer Michael Robinson points out that we can now collect all sorts of data while we run, thanks to pedometers and heart-rate monitors. But we don't usually make that data public."Fastcompany
I was lead designer on this project for Green and Blacks. The site took the form of a competition where people designed an artwork and then got their friends to vote on it. We worked with Peter Blake on a picture made from Green and Black's chocolate – seen above. Some of the artwork even made it on to Jonathon Ross's show.
The winner got the Peter Blake designed artwork made from 600 bars of chocolate
O2 run a massive community led project called Think Big that does a lot of work supporting disadvantaged kids and helping fund constructive local schemes. They wanted help communicating this to the outside world and between the groups involved.
The site features a visualisation of each project showing what they do at a glance.
I led the project to produce a site that showcased the schemes, let the people running them communicate what they were doing and encouraged them to use social media to spread the word.
The final site featured a visualisation of each project – the user can scroll through the different projects getting a feel for the diverse things everyone is doing. The users can set up their visualisations from a large set of parameters so that they feel like they can represent themselves whilst keeping everything in the same visual style.
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