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C) 5 Folders Cloud

By Patrick Keller Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Interaction Design, Projects, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0153, Automation, Behavior, C, Cloud, Computing, ECAL, Service, Software, Storage Permalink 0

Project developed by Christian Babski (fabric | ch)

5 Folders Cloud is a software implementation (among many possible) of the Cloud of Cards Processing Library and exemplifies its use, server and software side. It is a version of ownCloud with automated behaviors and cascades of events, in particular when linked to the 5 Connected Objects. As a matter of fact, this variation on the cloud combines a client-server architecture with a distributed, almost horizontal peer-to-peer approach.

Linked to the results of the research project’s ethnographic research on the uses of the cloud, 5 Folders Cloud translates in the form of five verbs of action the various identified motivations that seem to push users to drop files and data into this technological setup. These verbs in turn become the main functions and names of five synchronized cloud folders that serve the various files interactions. Each of these folders automates digital procedures linked to these motivations.

C) 5 Folders Cloud, cookbook only: recipes and other elements

By Patrick Keller Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Cookbooks, Interaction Design, Resources, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0152, Automation, Behavior, Cloud, Computing, ECAL, Makers, Service, Software, Storage, Tools Permalink 0

Please find below the necessary recipes, blueprints and information for the 5 Folders Cloud project.

Install ownCloud client.

Look for, Subscribe and syndicate to one or many 5 Folders Cloud (recipes, how-to & instructions included).

D) 5 Connected Objects

By Patrick Keller Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Interaction Design, Projects, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0151, Control, D, Data, ECAL, Gestures, Interaction, Interface, Networks, Object Permalink 0

A project developed by Lucien Langton

5 Connected Objects consist in a physical implementation (among many possible) of the Cloud of Cards Processing Library and exemplifies its use, client side. Linked to the 5 Folders Cloud (both server and software sides), the five physical objects work exclusively as its complements and have no independent digital functions of their own. They seek to propose a form of natural gestures interface (“clients” for the cloud) to locally access, monitor and manipulate ones data or files in the distant cloud, with a Cloud of Cards twist…

Indeed, directly linked to the results of the design research, as well as the ethnographic field study on the uses of the cloud, the purpose of the 5 Connected Objects is to materialize in daily environments the “ghostly” presence of one’s distant data. It is to incarnate as well the “digital anxiety” caused by various problems that can occur to personal files and data when dropped in a distant cloud (fear of losing one’s files, apprehension of erasing versions, of wrong sharing or access rights, of having private files being openly published, of undesired updates, of hacks, etc.)

As a consequence, the objects, and in particular their physical manipulation, can trigger automated procedures linked to these potential problems…

D) 5 Connected Objects, cookbook only: recipes and other elements

By Patrick Keller Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Cookbooks, Interaction Design, Resources, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0150, Control, Data, ECAL, Gestures, Interaction, Interface, Makers, Networks, Object, Tools Permalink 0

Please find below the necessary recipes, blueprints and information for the 5 Connected Objects project.

Download list of electronic ingredients, manual of assembly and recipes for the 5 Connected Objects (PDF).

Download the complete pack for 5 Connected Objects on Github. It contains the blueprints (DXF) to be separately cut out (at the CNC), and the base code to set up the objects.

You can also:

Download configuration packs for Raspberry Pis from Dexter Industries or Raspbian for Robots distro.

Download Processing for Raspberry Pi.

Cloud of Cards. Early pictures from the final artifacts, a photo shoot with Daniela & Tonatiuh

By Patrick Keller Tuesday, April 11, 2017 Design, Interaction Design, Projects, Publications, Schools Tags: 0148, Cloud, Datacenter, Documentation, Domestic, ECAL, Furnitures, Hardware, Infrastructure, Open source, Photography, Software, Tools Permalink 0

Photography by Daniela & Tonatiuh.

Design by Léa Pereyre, Lucien Langton and Patrick Keller

Naming the outputs of our design research: Cloud of Cards, a home cloud kit

By Patrick Keller Wednesday, March 22, 2017 Design, Interaction Design, Projects, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0147, ABCD, Automation, Behavior, Cloud, Clouds, Code, Data, Datacenter, Designers, Developers, ECAL, Makers, Networks, Object, Open source, Smart, Things, Tools Permalink 0

Cloud of Cards, a personal cloud kit. Scattered 19″ hybrid server racks, elements and kit to assemble and play with. (Photo.: Daniela & Tonatiuh)

We’re coming close to an end with the joint design research Inhabiting and Interfacing the Clouds and we’re becoming impatient to deliver the results: a diy small scale data center and cloud kit made of various elements (both physical and digital), to freely assemble at home or in your “garage”. Accompanied by two books documenting our work in print-on-demand!

At this stage though, we’ve given new and final titles to the design artifacts and tools that we’ve been working on lately, together with the research team (for the design & code part: Lucien Langton, Léa Pereyre, Christian Babski and myself).

Therefore…

Cloud of Cards, is a home cloud kit to help re-appropriate your data self. Obviously a distant tribute to House of Cards, the toy project by the Eames (“Toys and games are preludes to serious ideas”), the kit will consist of four artifacts:

19″ Living Rack is an open source server rack with a few functional hybridations, declined in four versions. Cloud of Cards Processing Library consists in a programming tool to help develop cloud applications with the Processing development language. 5 Folders Cloud is a version of the Cloud (ownCloud) with automated behaviors and cascades of events. It is an implementation of the processing library directly linked to the outputs and learnings of the ethnographic research about uses of the cloud. Finally, 5 Connected Objects physically interface the five automated folders in our version the cloud (5 Folders Cloud) with five “smart” objects and try to embody distant data in some kind of everyday domestic presence.

A “Home Cloud Kit” (evolution)

By Patrick Keller Wednesday, February 8, 2017 Architecture, Design, Interaction Design, Projects, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0145, ABCD, Cabinets, Cloud, Code, Data, Datacenter, Domestic, ECAL, Experience, fabric | ch, Interface, Open source, Things, Tools Permalink 0

Note: the purpose of a “Home Cloud Kit” (working title) has been described in a previous post. It will be composed by four artifacts which will become the main outcomes of the design research Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s), along with one book about the ethnographic field study and another one about the design research process.

Below are four links leading to four posts describing and analyzing the current state of evolution for each part of this kit. We expect the research and the “kit” to be finished by the end of March 17.

The “kit” will be distributed freely at the end of the project.

The final phase of our research consists in the prototyping of artifacts which relevance have been identified along the process. Tools, infrastructures and services are therefore addressed and will constitute a “Home Cloud Kit”.

This final phase is organized into the four following lines of work:

A) A Personal Data Center (evolution, models)