IP EVERYWHERE & BY EVERYONE Bakhtiar Mikhak Chris Lyon Tim Gorton Learning Webs Group

Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms overview goal making it easy for everyone to design and make their own network applications toolkits modular electronics development environment collaborative modeling environments

Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms tower: a modular electronic development environment

Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms tower: a modular electronic development environment flexible, extensible rapid prototyping tool customizable, modular virtual machines enabling a wide range of applications architecture – building IP / IP everywhere process modeling workplace research: USPS collaboration system dynamics personal fabrication

Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms tower: a modular electronic development environment foundations: multiple processor support Microchip PIC16F877 microcontroller inexpensive wide user-base easy to use Rabbit Semiconductor 2300 processor module more RAM and Flash storage an Ethernet port and TCP/IP stack power and programming circuitry full pin breakout to every layer

Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms tower: a modular electronic development environment layers: sensing RS-232 and RS-485 serial communication Ethernet connectivity infrared and RF communication audio/visual output mechanical actuation EEPROM and CompactFlash storage rapid prototyping of new layers

Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms tabletop process modeling toolkit

Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms Mailflow Model canceler DBCS 971 DBCS 892 Man 040 ISS 841 other ops DISPATCHDISPATCH USPS collaboration

Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms Mailflow Model canceler DBCS 971 DBCS 892 Man 040 ISS 841 other ops DISPATCHDISPATCH USPS collaboration