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I remember running into the Institute on Esplanade and asking "The Institute of What?". They had all kinds of interesting gadgets on their front lawn. I really
by edkennedy 11y ago
I remember running into the Institute on Esplanade and asking "The Institute of What?". They had all kinds of interesting gadgets on their front lawn. I really love the concept and implementation of this, in particular the careful consideration of proximity detection instead of a chat client. Really lovely way to promote human interaction instead of drawing the user in to interacting with the device itself.
- josh2600 11y agoThe village is called "The Institute for Higher Yearning". Also worth checking out BattleBlimps, which was developed by False Profit Labs: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/battle-blimps https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/battle-blimps. Hydrogen filled blimps, controlled by an xbox controller talking to an Arduino over a custom bluetooth protocol. When you collide two blimps together, one of them blows up, Hindenburg style. Also, also, Horse Tornado, which was a persistence of vision art piece: https://www.tilt.com/tilts/horse-tornado-interactive-phantom-video-carousel/description https://www.tilt.com/tilts/horse-tornado-interactive-phantom.... Lastly, we had a revised art car this year too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0JzPgd9f9g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0JzPgd9f9g. It was fun watching the muse dry-eeg light up the brain during the Thursday night party we attended. Twas a good year.
- triplesec 11y agoif that was once a name (and I've not ever heard that from any of the original miscreants) it's not really used now. But it's definitely a place of science, art and curiosity.
- tibbon 11y agoI assumed The Institute is a nod to MIT. Can't let The Phage and the Hive take all the MIT folk ;)