Digital Urban – Data, Cities, IoT and Making Things

Artificial Intelligence is on everyone’s minds, and so is the human-induced environmental decline of our planet Earth.
Tellus Mater Installation
The Connected Environments team, as part of The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), invites you to come and consider both through a new interactive installation developed in response to Gaia, by Luke Jerram, featuring an AI interface...

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 strip inside a lightsaber tube, we can create a stunning visual...

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.
The way the weather house works is quite simple. Inside the house, there is sa strip of catgut or hair. The gut relaxes or shrinks based on the humidity in the surrounding air, relaxing when the air is wet and tensing when the air is dry. Attached to...

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 all, there are some academics who simply flow words but for many its a challenge. There is nothing...