Sonos Prototype

We have an addiction to making things. One of the symptoms of this is a lot of time spent experimenting (a combination of making prototypes, mistakes, and everything in between). This strange mixture of ideas, research, craft, and experimentation often requires custom software development. Most of what you will find here is a mix of the resources we have developed and in some cases how we got there. You will also find what we consider our speculative work. It won’t come in the form of unbuilt projects or drawings, but in the form of a constant questioning about the production and deployment of design in the everyday world. Our speculative work is not spread across many projects but just one, the office.

The resources here are available for anyone to use. We hope they can help contribute to other experiments and we would be honored if they serve as inspiration in any way for other projects. This is also a behind the scenes look into how we work and how we fail. We hope it can also serve as a fun record of what all this all really takes. We will be adding work in progress as well as a back log of material we are organizing from previous projects.

June 16, 2013

Here are a couple of photos of the first light test for the project we are working on for SONOS. Pretty simple, but really exciting for us as its the first test of the overall setup we have been designing to make a grid of 600 fluorescent bulbs react to sound. The relay boards were designed with Noah Zerkin, staring in the above video for the first tests! More photos of the crazy network set up after the jump…