Artificial Intelligence is on everyone’s minds, and so is the human-induced environmental decline of our planet Earth. The Connected Environments team, as part of The Bartlett Centre for Advanc...
https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2023/12/05/tellus-mater-an-ai-that-thinks-its-mother-earth/
Imagine wielding the power of the Force, not to fight Sith Lords, but to display real-time data – in our case, wind speed, but the code/build can be adapted to any data feed. Using a NeoPixel s...
Traditional German weather houses are small, decorative structures that are popular in Germany and other parts of Europe. They are often made from wood and used to predict the weather. A Tradit...
Back in 2013, I wrote a blog post on 500 Words a Day, Academic Writing. Noting that its not something many academics admit – but writing is hard, not for...
https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2023/08/10/writing-500-words-a-day-the-pomodoro-technique/
Pimoroni make a range of LED matrix displays with Pi Pico W’s built in – previously we have used the large scale Pimoroni Galatic Unicorn and added a series of...
Every app has a story, from the idea through to story boarding, finding a design team, working with in house computer scientists or outsourcing. All of these steps take time, resources and often ...
https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2023/04/06/made-by-ai-the-making-of-frame-it/
“Frame-IT is the perfect app for anyone who loves to display websites in style. With Frame-IT, you can put a beautiful picture frame around any website, making it look like a work of art. Wheth...
Developed at the Connected Environments Lab at The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis , University College London , the Open Gauges Project was launched in October 2021 as part of the Modul...
https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2022/06/14/open-gauges-physical-data-display-devices/
The planning process has been, arguably, slow to adapt and adopt new technologies: It is perhaps only now that it is starting to move into a more digitally focused era. Yet, it is not the current...
https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2022/06/13/incoming-metaverses-digital-mirrors-for-urban-planning/
Another new paper – this time with Michael Batty – We sketch a brief history of the development of virtual geographic environments which build on online gaming, three-dimensional representati...