@Ingress Portal under construction It seems to be already claimed by #Enlightened Also visible w/o scanner Possible? pic.twitter.com/1OujRbzi04 — Rowan Peter š”š š¹ā¤š¤ (@rowan_peter) July 20, 2014
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Question 1.1: Click & Collect
For Week 1’s 1.1 Good design homework for Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society, I was required to consider the artifacts I use regularly and then briefly explain why IĀ love it. I know the Coles Click &Ā Collect service isn’t an artifact and itĀ doesn’t really fit within the assignment brief like the Sipper lid,Ā but it evoked […]
For Week 1’s 1.1 Good design homework for Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society, I was required to consider the artifacts I use regularly and then briefly explain why IĀ love it. I love the sipper lid on the top of a take away coffee cups as itĀ allows me to safely consume my hot morning coffee […]
This sketch demonstrates the preliminary user flow for a web application/mobile experience that permits the completion and submission of a safe work method statement (SWMS) as part of a vocational training and assessment experience. A SWMS is a site-specific form that must be completed before any high-risk construction work is commenced. Generally, the completion and […]
This sketch demonstrates the preliminary user flow for a web application/mobile experience for a practical task capture, more specifically the completion of a technical report or similarĀ documentation as part of a vocational training and assessment experience. Like the safe work method statement (SWMS) template, this web application/mobile experience seeks to take advantages of the affordances […]
A project at work required video footage of a series of veterinary surgical procedures to be recorded for inclusion in an online teaching resource. The project did not have resources (DSLR and personnel) to record the series of surgical procedures nor does the relatively small operating theatre permit an additional non-surgical staff member to occupy […]
What wasĀ YouTube doing in the background besides consuming my mobile data plan? Something supernatural? Spooky and annoying. Background data now restricted.
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Ingress: Levelling up
The experience was incredible. It was if I’d just stepped into the wonderful world of Oz. The experience was remarkably like Dorothy tapping her shiny red shoes wishing hwe returning to Kansas. There I was tapping the screen of my mobile phone, just like Dorothy tapping her shoes and wishing to be whisked away to […]
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Reporting in from ISTE2014
IĀ just arrivedĀ in Atlanta, Georgia for the last two days of theĀ ISTE 2014 and discovered my mates Alan Levine and Ben Rimes are not here. That’s disappointing. I mean, the International Society for Technology in Education (ITSE) conference is the largest Ā educational technology conference in North America. SurelyĀ it’s the type of conference these two guys would […]
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Ingress: Capturing first portal
Wherever there’s a demand there’s a business opportunity (I guess.) Ingress presents an example of a virtual economy, where in-game items such as resonators, bursters, virus, power cube and other equipment can be sold forĀ real-world currency. Interesting.
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Ingress: Deploy resonator
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Ingress: Successful hacking
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Ingress: Successful hack
Ingress
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Ingress: Empty resonator slot
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Ingress: First contact
I’ve started playing Ingress now that I have a mobile phone with some capability. Just completed First contact. Awesome.
This afternoon I attended the E-LEARNING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION PechaKucha event at Centre for Adult Education (CAE) in Melbourne’s CBDĀ and presented Explorations in augmented reality. Explorations in augmented reality described my experience of prototyping an augmented reality experience as part of my VET Development Centre Specialist Scholarship. The event also featured presentations from Aliki Kompogiorgas (Box […]
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Some pushback and then a response
An interesting and perhaps unexpected pushback from Twitter users in response to Red Bull’s June 2014 Ā promotion/advertising campaign on Twitter. It took some time, but Red Bull’s marketing team eventually responded to the majority of people who responded unfavourably to the promotion. They didn’t respond to some of the more provocative tweets.
Recently, I’ve been remembering the RENDERSAUR. TheĀ RENDERSAUR was an online art project I maintained seriouslyĀ from 1997 to 2000, less-seriously from 2001 to 2002 and thenĀ trailing off completely around 2003 to 2004. RENDERSAUR was hosted by my friend and oscillated from RENDERSAUR.CX to RENDERSAUR.ORG. The Internet Archive: Wayback machine does a good job of capturing the […]
What can you learn from blog spam? You can learn that one famous sunglass manufacturer is alive and well and hasn’t been relegated to a sticker on the rear window of an Australian teenager’s car in 80s. You can also learn about two new golf clubs that are now available, a Japanese golfer and their […]
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Let it snow
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Minecrafting
I’m having trouble with the surfaceTouchEvent in the Responding to touch interactionĀ recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. I’ve worked through the Troubleshooting, Ā Discussion and Known issues, Common problems, Understanding changes to processing.core sections of the Android page of the Processing Wiki, but still no success. Unsurprisingly, someone else postedĀ a […]
Making my way through the Accessing screen size and densityĀ recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to use the Android DisplayMetrics class to determine general information about the display of the device used to run the sketch. Ā While this is more of a diagnostic […]
