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Cloud of Cards (ABCD), a home cloud kit

By Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Cookbooks, Projects, Resources, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0158, ABCD, Clouds, Data, Datacenter, ECAL, Infrastructure, Makers, Object, Storage, Tools Permalink 0

Photography: Daniela & Tonatiuh

Research and Art direction by Patrick Keller and Nicolas Nova.

Assistants at ECAL: Lucien Langton & Léa Pereyre. Assistants at HEAD: Anaïs Bloch & CHarles Chalas.

Cloud of Cards, a home cloud kit to re-appropriate your data self, is the principal outcome of the joint design and ethnographic research Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s), accompanied by two books in print-on-demand that document it.

The main results of the project are four artifacts [ A) - B) - C) - D) ], both digital and physical that constitute a set of modular tools (“cards”) that are delivered in the form of an open-source diy kit, freely accessible on www.cloudofcards.org as well as on Github. The purpose of these tools is to give everyone, the community of designers and makers in particular, the possibility to set up their own small size data-center and cloud, manage their data in a decentralized way or develop their own alternative projects upon this personal small scale infrastructure.

 
 

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A) 19″ Living Rack, cookbook only: recipes and other elements

By Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Architecture, Cookbooks, Design, Resources, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0156, Cabinets, Computing, Domestic, ECAL, Furnitures, Housing, Infrastructure, Makers, Storage, Tools Permalink 0

Please find below the necessary recipes, blueprints and information for the 19″ Living Rack project.

Download manual of assembly, and recipes for the 19″ Living Rack technical “Base”, “Office”, “Home” and “Garden” extensions (PDF).

Download “all-in-one” 19” Living Rack full pack (ZIP). It contains all blueprints (DXF) to be separately cut out (at the CNC), manual of assembly and recipes for the “Base”, so as “Office”, “Home”, and “Garden” extensions (PDF).

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B) Cloud of Cards Processing Library, cookbook only: recipes and other elements

By Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Cookbooks, Interaction Design, Resources, Schools, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0154, Automation, Cloud, Code, Data, ECAL, Library, Makers, Open source, Programming, Service, Storage, Tools, Visualization Permalink 0

Please find below the necessary recipes, blueprints and information for the Cloud of Cards Processing Library project.

Download Cloud of Cards Processing Library manual (PDF).

Download Cloud of Cards Processing Library on Github. Codes, recipes, how-to, instructions & forks.

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You can also:

Install ownCloud server (for Linux) & client (or Nextcloud, optional).

Install Processing.

 

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

By 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).

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

By 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.

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You can also:

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

Download Processing for Raspberry Pi.

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

By 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

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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).

 

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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.

I&IC Workshop #5 with random International at ECAL: work in progress

By Saturday, November 21, 2015 Interaction Design, Schools, Workshops Tags: 0121, Clouds, Data, Designers (interaction), Devices, History, Makers, Monitoring, Presence, Profiling, Students, Teaching, Traces Permalink 0

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Our workshop with Dev Joshi from rAndom International is going on well during the week, with different ideas cast into the direction of digital shadows, traces and footprints.

The students are encouraged to produce objects, although it has been suggested that they take advantage of space as well (installations), as the workshop takes place in a large studio (cinema studio at ECAL).

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