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====> Installation====
====> Installation====
1.4.4.1 The installation influences at its turn the outcome of the spectrometry (Body - Feedback loop // Pataphysics machines for the body = patamedicines?)
** a food vending machine activated by urine hands out food based on a spectrograph: vitamin c, beetroot, ...
** a hacked portocabin locks up the visitor and gives sun-bath / UV light (with a countdown showing how long)
1.4.4.2 The installation creates a shape from the data that gets made physically
** data translated into stain (you're in / rorschach inkblot) in processing, gets lasercut out of cardboard/wood and put up in the installation space
** data translated to (2D) barcode that gets printed on a Tshirt so you can walk around with it
1.4.4.3 The installation is biological
** spectrography data translated to 1 or 0 for every point of a 10x10 matrix, installation is a dripping installation on 100 plants (10x10)
** spectrography data switches on and off a bunch of fast-growing lights on top of plants and thus slowly directs the pattern the plants grow
Direction 1.4.4.1 is nice because of the feedback loop to the body, the body being influenced by the installation again, 1.4.4.2 is probably slightly less complicated and doesn't have to involve peeing on the spot. (easier yet more boring, depends on condition in the exhibition), 1.4.4.3 is easy to and nicer because of the installation being a living organism, needs a bit longer to actually see something happen (depends on time). Also possible is a combination of 1.4.4.1 and 1.4.4.3, where the plants in a room have influence on your body: with the oxygen the produce or maybe if you eat them ... 
(I'm really not used to this WIKI thing yet but it's interesting!!!)
So for now, I think we need to propose these different direction and see what the possibilities: time, manpower, means ... After all, we need to build the sensors and gather some data first.


===Project technical requirements===
===Project technical requirements===

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INTERACTIVOS?09: Garage Science Workshop-Seminar Application Form

Illustrations

  • Generic platform (sensing, storing, showing and sharing)
  • Spectrophotometer hardware design (schematics) + arduino pictures
  • Database infrastructure + data flow and interfaces
  • Workshop installation sketch
  • Visualisation output sketch

Project title

  • Vincent 08:27, 1 December 2008 (EST): suggestion: "Body Rainbow"
  • --SxE00 10:12, 3 December 2008 (EST) Depending on the output we want to go for:
    • body shapes
    • body colors
    • body clock
    • body talk
    • body language...

Project summary

  • To be completed

Project description

Our own vocabulary how do we call:

  • the open software spectrophotometer: ???
  • the urine spectral data: ???
  • the open data set database: ???

Overview

Urine spectral profiling

  • personal but not analytical
  • track your own profile/signature in time
  • compare your own profile/signature with others.
  • Urine portrait, urine profile/signature,

Generic platform:

  • Sensing / Sharing:
    • Arduino-based spectrophotometer
    • Open hardware
  • Storing / Sharing
    • Compatible with scientific data format
    • Open XML standard
    • Open access / online service
  • Showing:
    • Open software Processing

> Spectrophotometer Design

UV/visible spectrophotometry is an essential tool in the identification and quantification of a very broad range of chemical and biological substances. It relies on the measurement of radiation intensity absorption at various spectral wavelength. It has proved particularly useful in biochemical analysis, and is of vital importance in the clinical laboratory where various components of blood and/or urine samples, are determined and monitored on a 24h basis.

An essential part of this project is to provide to the Citizen Science community an easy-to-build design of a spectrophotometer. The design will rely heavily on Open Hardware components such as the Arduino microcontroller, as well as on the cheap LED technology. The necessary software will also use Open Source software libraries like Processing in order to control the system and visualise the output signals. The software will be accessible under an Open Source license.

In addition to making use of open hardware and software components, our spectrophotometer device will comply with existing spectral information standards in current use within the scientific community. Such compliance will enhance the ability to share and aggregate the data produce by the Citizen Science community involved.

> Open Spectra Data Set

Within the duration of the project, we propose to develop a WEB2.0 Open Data Set platform in order to aggregate and analyse data produced by our spectrophotometer. With such Web community service, we expect to community spirit behind this Citizen Science project,as well as providing a long lasting infrastructure for future developments. The architecture of the Web service will rely on the Google App framework (similar to Django). It provides an easy to develop SDK as well as database resources. It is planned to provide an Open API to this data set to enable future development in relation to data mining for example.

> Installation

1.4.4.1 The installation influences at its turn the outcome of the spectrometry (Body - Feedback loop // Pataphysics machines for the body = patamedicines?)

    • a food vending machine activated by urine hands out food based on a spectrograph: vitamin c, beetroot, ...
    • a hacked portocabin locks up the visitor and gives sun-bath / UV light (with a countdown showing how long)

1.4.4.2 The installation creates a shape from the data that gets made physically

    • data translated into stain (you're in / rorschach inkblot) in processing, gets lasercut out of cardboard/wood and put up in the installation space
    • data translated to (2D) barcode that gets printed on a Tshirt so you can walk around with it

1.4.4.3 The installation is biological

    • spectrography data translated to 1 or 0 for every point of a 10x10 matrix, installation is a dripping installation on 100 plants (10x10)
    • spectrography data switches on and off a bunch of fast-growing lights on top of plants and thus slowly directs the pattern the plants grow

Direction 1.4.4.1 is nice because of the feedback loop to the body, the body being influenced by the installation again, 1.4.4.2 is probably slightly less complicated and doesn't have to involve peeing on the spot. (easier yet more boring, depends on condition in the exhibition), 1.4.4.3 is easy to and nicer because of the installation being a living organism, needs a bit longer to actually see something happen (depends on time). Also possible is a combination of 1.4.4.1 and 1.4.4.3, where the plants in a room have influence on your body: with the oxygen the produce or maybe if you eat them ... (I'm really not used to this WIKI thing yet but it's interesting!!!) So for now, I think we need to propose these different direction and see what the possibilities: time, manpower, means ... After all, we need to build the sensors and gather some data first.

Project technical requirements

> Spectrophotometer Design

  • Hardware-related:
    • NX Arduino
    • NX LEDs
    • NX ...
  • Software-related:
    • Processing
    • XML

> Open Spectra Data Set

  • Google App framework
    • Django / python / SQL

> Installation

  • ...

Other project requirements, with estimated budget (optional)

  • To be completed

Project schedule

Week 1 deliverable

  • Spectrophotometer-related:
    • Open Spectrophotometer documentation (Instructables ?)
    • 3 Spectrophotometer prototypes
    • Calibration protocol + data collection.
  • Open Data Set Web2.0 Service:
    • Architecture documentation
    • Web form to import spectral information into database
  • Installation-related:
    • ...

Week 2 deliverable

  • Spectrophotometer-related:
  • Open Data Set Web2.0 Service:
  • Installation-related:

Project documentation (optional)

  • To be completed

Attachments (max 3 Files)

  • To be completed
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