Writing SHIFT DIGITAL FRONTIERS REPORT UNVEILED DURING LONDON DATA WEEK SHIFT, in collaboration with Arup and the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Connected Environments Group…Andy18 July 2024
Making Turn Any Device into a Literary Clock with our MQTT Feed The Concept of the Literary Clock A literary clock is a unique fusion of literature…Andy15 July 2024
MakingPosts Make a Scrolling Hub75 Matrix Display using a Pimoroni Interstate75W and MQTT There are many tutorials online on using an LED Matrix to display data—many of them…Andy12 July 2024
dataData VisualisationWeatherWeather (Live)Weather Display Enhancing Live Weather Monitoring with MQTT and Chart.js Introduction Viewing real-time data from a personal weather station such as a Davis Vantage Pro,…Andy27 June 2024
ArtMakingWeather Creating Art Like Weather Forecast Images with DALL·E 3 and API Data Introduction The Met Office, as the national meteorological service for the United Kingdom, provides valuable…Andy9 May 2024
ArtBlogEngagementMaking Tellus Mater: An AI That Thinks it’s Mother Earth Artificial Intelligence is on everyone’s minds, and so is the human-induced environmental decline of our…Andy17 December 2023
MakingOpen Gauges How to Make a Lightsaber Realtime Wind Speed Gauge Imagine wielding the power of the Force, not to fight Sith Lords, but to display…Andy9 November 2023
MakingWeather Reimaging the Traditional Weather House with Open Data, Laser Cutting and 3D Printing Traditional German weather houses are small, decorative structures that are popular in Germany and other…Andy18 August 2023
Writing Writing 500 Words a Day – The Pomodoro Technique Back in 2013, I wrote a blog post on 500 Words a Day, Academic Writing.…Andy10 August 2023
Making MQTT Scroller for the Pimoroni Stellar Unicorn: THE: Time, Headlines and Environmental Information Pimoroni make a range of LED matrix displays with Pi Pico W's built in -…Andy3 August 2023
AI Made by AI: The Making of Frame-IT Every app has a story, from the idea through to story boarding, finding a design…Andy7 April 2023
Apps Frame-IT "Frame-IT is the perfect app for anyone who loves to display websites in style. With…Andy7 April 2023
Data VisualisationGithubPhysical Data Devices Open Gauges – Physical and Digital Data Display Devices Developed at the Connected Environments Lab at The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, the Open…Andy14 June 2022
30 Days in ActiveWorldsMetaverseMirror WorldsSecond Life Incoming Metaverses: Digital Mirrors for Urban Planning The planning process has been, arguably, slow to adapt and adopt new technologies: It is…Andy13 June 2022
Metaversepapers Ubiquitous geographic information in the emergent Metaverse Another new paper - this time with Michael Batty - We sketch a brief history…Andy13 June 2022
online planningpapersplanning Applying cybernetic principles to the co-creation of spaces Another new paper, written with a number of colleagues from The Bartlett School of Planning…Andy10 June 2022
BlogMakingOpen Gauges Open Weather Map NeoPixel Barometer – Open Gauges Open Weather Map Barometer The Open Gauges project aims to allow open-source data gauges to…Andy22 June 2022
IOTpapers Mobile Communications Technologies in Tree Time: The Listening Wood  This article presents a practice-led investigation by a cross-disciplinary team of artists and computer scientists…Andy13 June 2022
BlogMaking AllSky Camera Project – 3D Printed Case, All Day Timelapses’ and Home Assistant for the Pi HQ Camera AllSky is an outstanding package for the Raspberry Pi, allowing the capture of long exposures…Andy14 June 2022
papersSmart Cities SMART – Self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technologies Data stores, intelligent real-time data collection, access to city-wide infrastructure and urban informatics, which involves…Andy13 June 2022
city visualizationIOT Urban IoT: Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities for Mass Data Collection, Analysis, and Visualization Urban Internet of Things (IoT) is in an early speculative phase. Often linked to the…Andy13 June 2022
CryptoMuseumNFTsNon-Fungible Tokenspapers Crypto Collectibles, Museum Funding and OpenGLAM: Challenges, Opportunities and the Potential of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) make it technically possible for digital assets to be owned and traded,…Andy13 June 2022
Posts Node.JS, Node Express and Puppeteer for Epaper / EInk Displays: How to Open a Web Page & Save as an Image Sometimes there is a need to step back and do things as simply as possible.…Andy24 February 2021
Posts The Little Book of Public Space and the Internet of Things Following on from our Little Book of Connected Environments and the Internet of Things we…Andy24 February 2021
Posts IoT 3D Printable Devices – The Spring 2021 Collection At The Connected Environments Lab, part of The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, here…Andy23 February 2021
Books and Papers Download The Little Book of Connected Environments and the Internet of Things Our Little Book of Connected Environments is about opening up the potential of Internet of…Andy18 April 2020
Making Make an eInk MQTT Reader for the Time, News and Environmental Data 'THE' is a mini MQTT Information Display for Time, News and Environmental Information. Using a…Andy10 April 2020
Posts Raspberry Pi Internet Radio Part of creating a new insight into 'Connected Environments' (more on that term in future…Andy31 January 2019
Posts 3D Printing a Radiation Shield for the Weather Flow Air Weather Flow Shield - Fusion 360 Model Render The Weather Flow 'Smart Weather Station' is…Andy21 September 2018
Posts Streaming Urban Data – YouTube Live The increasingly availability of bandwidth along with advances in computer hardware and Internet services is…Andy12 January 2016