The old ISONAS access control system at Office Nomads was not cutting it. The software interface was horrific and it would have been very difficult to integrate with Nadine. We switched to using stand alone Edge Solo Evo door controllers from HID.
Andrew and I wired up a gauge I bought on Tindie to an Arduino Ethernet to display the real-time internet usage at the office.
The front door at The Red Victorian was in need of an entry solution. There was already an electric strike installed in the gate and even a lighted doorbell button. We looked at all the commercial and residential solutions, and the fancy new “smart locks” that are cropping up like Lockitron and August. We decided to roll our own because none of the solutions we found had the openness or the API we needed to integrate in to the reservation software we created (modernomad).
The Red Victorian is not your typical hotel! It is an immersive, experimental, mixed-use space with a diverse cross section of people from around the world coming here to work on projects, see the city, find collaborators, and create the world they seek.
Modernomad is guest, event and community management software for coliving houses and other experimental living arrangements focused on openness, collaboration and participation.
The New Philographers, our performance group, took The Philometer to an art festival. As our first public performance, we hooked people up to our sensor array. We asked them questions ranging from boring to stimulating and created art pieces graphically representing their personal sensory response.
