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OBJECTS OF WONDERMENT
The Objects of Wonderment is a mobile phone physical computing toolkit. It is an open source project designed to promote hacking, re-making, and to tap into the person DIY (Do-It-Yourself) passions in each of us. It attempts to enable citizens to participate in the authorship of our emerging digital metapolis by providing tools for anyone with a mobile phone to design and new deploy interactive city objects and create new, novel, and meaningful technological experiences.
We developed a prototype on Symbian based Nokia S60 mobile phones, Bluetooth pic based controller (Toothpic) that allowed for over a dozen I/O ports, and RS-232 serial protocol for external peripherals. We also developed a visual programming environment as a Flash application (Flashlite for mobile devices) that allows users to "drag and drop" the logic and control elements of their program without ever having to write code.
We used and deployed these prototypes and they were used in creating Hullaballo, an experiment in social sounds and Citizen Science, an experiment in participatory urbanism in response to environmental conditions.