Bee Lab presentation by Robert Phillips
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Dexter, 2013 Just because it’s open, does it mean it is good? Rob Phillips Daniel Charny Hilary Geoghegan Jess Price Tom Hulme Steven Bamford @rob_dphillips @danino @DrHG @SussexWildlife @thulme @thebamf
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Robert Phillips is a product designer and tutor at Brunel University. He is a PhD candidate researching open design and citizen science. http://www.rdphillips.co.uk/132772/1836116/projects/bee-lab-citizen-science-project
Transcript of Bee Lab presentation by Robert Phillips
Dexter, 2013
Just because it’s open, does it mean it is good?
Rob Phillips Daniel Charny Hilary Geoghegan Jess Price Tom Hulme Steven Bamford
@rob_dphillips@danino@DrHG@SussexWildlife@thulme@thebamf
Open design is “A movement of fabrication that is democratising manufacture to the user, enabling them to create personal products in the future”.
Malone, Lipson, 2007.
Textile patterns
Additive Subtractive
Design ToolsDigital Manufacture Accessible hardware
openstructures.net
Citizen Science is “The participation of non-scientists in the data collection for scientific investigation”.
Lee, Quinn and Duke, 2006.
www.birds.cornell.eduwww.airqualityegg.com
www.publiclab.orgwww.teklalabs.org
"1 in 3 bites of food is thanks to pollinators, contributing £14.2bn to EU economy"
Langworthy G, Henein M. 2009. "The vanishing of the bees" 1st ed. USA: Hive Mentality Films.
observation / research
observed mutual data
If your beehives could talk, what would you like it to tell you?
Design / Make / Research
beelab.org @beelab_open
BEE LAB
The project
What’s in the kit
PCB4050B Hex
Non-Invertor
INA 125 IC
RTCClock Mount
LCD Mount SD Mount
16 DIL Socket
Screw TerminalTemperature +Humidity Sensor
SD Card Reader Clock
Screw Terminal
Capacitors ARTMEGA Socket
Regulator
Push Button
Regulator
LCD Screen
Load Cell
Force Sensor
220 Ohms Resistors
1K Resistors
1M Resistors
4K7 Ohms Resistor
3.3 Ohms Resistor
Switch
Weight of beehive, weight of feeder, temperature /
humidity and weather
Victoria & Albert Museum Digital Design weekend 2013
“A world full of crapjects and blobjects”Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things, 2005
This work was supported by RCUK through the Horizon Digital Economy Research grant
(EP/G065802/1)
Just because it’s open, does it mean it is good?
Rob Phillips Daniel Charny Hilary Geoghegan Jess Price Tom Hulme Steven Bamford
@rob_dphillips@danino@DrHG@SussexWildlife@thulme@thebamf
