Flavonoid

With my recent affiliation the distributed cluster of researchers that form the Near Future Laboratory think/make-tank (part of the Liftlab group), Julian Bleecker provided me with one of his Flavonoid. A Flavonoid is a little device that’s used to capture physical movements and translate them into digital data.

Literally and practically — it is a device. It records physical movement using a three-axis accelerometer, sum-of-squares calculations. These calculations are time-stamped and churned through a simple algorithm to accumulate the readings over time, and record them at set intervals. The settings are easily modified through a terminal interface that allows you to see the data, adjust recording intervals and thresholds, calibrate the device, set the time and date, and a bunch of other diagnostic and configuration sorts of things.

Relation to my thesis: Playing with an additional source of digital trace.