Matt Richardson

MAKE Volume 32

I’m especially excited about this month’s release of MAKE Volume 32. For this issue, I wrote two major articles, The Awesome Button and Get Started with BeagleBone. If you’re a subscriber, you’ll see it any day now (and the digital edition should already be in your inbox). Otherwise, V32 hits newsstands on October 23rd.

posted on October 8, 2012 at 10:03 pm

World Maker Faire New York 2012

This year at World Maker Faire New York, I’ll be giving two presentations on the Make: Live stage: Descriptive Camera Makes Pictures You Can Read on Saturday at 1pm and Raspberry Pi 101 on Sunday at 2pm. Also check out what we’ve been working on at ITP: The Nerdy Derby! I hope to see you there!

posted on September 22, 2012 at 1:53 pm

Descriptive Camera at 92YTribeca

Along with some fantastic work in the world of electronic art, the Descriptive Camera will be on display at the opening night of Geekdown at 92YTribeca on Saturday, September 15 at 7:00pm.

posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:27 pm

Sidewalk Tetherball

My second year of ITP has just started and after one week of class, I already have a project to show! For Pop-up Window Displays, we were assigned to elicit a double take in public and capture it on video. Ben Light and I teamed up to execute this idea, which brings a playground past-time onto the streets of New York City. Not only did we elicit quite a few double takes, but we also had many people eager to interact with our installation.

posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:26 pm

Enough Already in Popular Mechanics

Enough Already was selected for inclusion in Popular Mechanics‘ Backyard Genius section in their September 2012 issue!

posted on August 29, 2012 at 4:00 pm

Split-flap Window Display for Issey Miyake

I’m a sucker for split-flap displays! Here’s some fantastic work by Drawing and Manual. [via Creative Applications]

posted on August 29, 2012 at 1:07 pm

Coming in November: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi

Shawn Wallace and I will be releasing Getting Started with Raspberry Pi this November. It’s a beginner’s guide to Raspberry Pi that walks you through hooking it up, using it as a computer, and then using it in electronics projects. It’s currently available for pre-order from Amazon! I’m looking forward to sharing more information about the book closer to November, but in the mean time, I wanted to share the good news!

posted on August 25, 2012 at 8:16 am

Talk at the Smithsonian Institution

Last week I had the opportunity to visit The Smithsonian Institution’s Web and New Media department, thanks to their director, Michael Edson. While I was there, I gave a talk to some of the staff about my work and particularly the Descriptive Camera. Click through to Bambuser to see a video archive of the talk.

posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:09 am

GPIO and GUI with Raspberry Pi

While experimenting with Raspberry Pi, I cobbled together examples for the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO module for Python and the Tkinter modules for creating graphical user interfaces with Python. I got them working together pretty easily.

The example here might be a bit underwhelming, but I’m really excited about the potential for something like this. Having access to a board that can drive a monitor-based interface in addition to GPIO means simpler designs for projects that need both. Best of all, it can all be done in one file of code.

posted on July 23, 2012 at 10:55 am

Huge Flip Dot Display in Manhattan

I can’t wait to go check this out. I love it.

posted on July 18, 2012 at 5:58 pm

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