The Urban Canvas: Spatial Computing in Planning, Analysing, and Representing the Cityscape
The full special issue is now out in Urban Planning, open access. The Urban Canvas brings together eight articles on spatial computing in planning, from situated visualisation in the Royal Docks to coastal flood games in Morecambe, audio walks in Tokyo and LLM-generated road networks...
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TIME2: An Open Source 3D Printed Clock with Key Winding and a Bell
A year on from TIME, our open source 3D printed clock gets a sequel: wound through the dial with a key, set while it…
Open Gauges: A Stepper Motor Wind Direction Gauge
The latest addition to Open Gauges is a 205 mm wall-mounted wind direction dial. It swaps the servo for a stepper motor…
Longmarsh: Mapping a Solar Farm and Data Centre for the Villages it Surrounds
Longmarsh Green Energy proposes solar panels, battery storage, new overhead lines and a 1 GW data centre campus across…
The Papers: The 2nd Album
Our second album, The Papers, was released on the 24th of September across all streaming platforms. Eight tracks, each…
Spatial Computing and the Phygital City: Towards Digital Habitation
Our latest paper is out in Urban Planning, open access and free to download. Spatial Computing and the Phygital City…
Color Weather: A Data Watch Face for the Pebble Time 2
Last October I made Just Weather, a black and white data face for the 144x168 screen of the Pebble 2 Duo. It did the…
Fenland: A weeWX Dashboard with forecast verification, ensemble models, climate records back to 1940 and finally, that tween...
In a previous post I wrote at length in Chasing the Tween: My 25-Year Obsession with Weather Data . The chase, for a…
City Clock: A City where the People Tell the Time
How an experiment in agent-based simulation went on to make a living breathing city.
Aqua Clock: Multi-Model Vibe Coding, Boids, and the Fish That Tell the Time
How an experiment in agent-based fish simulation, vibe coded with Claude and Gemini AI Studio, became a clock — and…
The Album: Place and Space
We are pleased to announce that the Album - Place and Space is now available across all streaming formats or to…
Stepper Motor Linear Data Gauge
The latest upload to the Open Gauges Github is a Linear Gauge, using a timing belt to provide Linear Stepper Motor…
Ships Lamp Wind Speed Gauge
Our MicroPython project turns a strip of NeoPixel LEDs into a “ship's lamp" style wind speed gauge. It connects to an…