Another very fun and too busy day..Readers will know that I have a number of techy projects that are coming due in the next few days .. I’ve been flat out trying to get them all done. I’m loving the thinking and stimulation but find myself longing for the relatively manageable hours and mental load of a normal work week.   Today I spent most of the day working on a musical instrument project it’s a large interactive piece with lots of custom software and custom hardware.. Today we (homer, John, Colin and I) did a successful integration test that involved tying three of the prototypes together  using wifi and OSC to create an interactive art/music experience.. when its complete it will be 30 feet long and will be controllable wirelessly by ipad and playable by a crowd  of drunk people ,.. how cool is that. Last night our same team was working on a 12 foot tall, 20 foot long rube goldberg electropolitical (just made that up)  device for entertaining folks and changing the constitution.. it too involves a fair bit of custom hardware and software done in very limited time with a very samll team..

It’s interesting thinking about the intersection of my hobby world and work… not just my work.. but everyone’s work. . How can we  bring more of the energy and creativity of the maker movement into our day jobs. Don’t get me wrong.. Me and my colleagues work very hard and very creatively to solve the problems  as they are framed in the context of corporate innovation. Somehow the rules are different though.> When profit and loss and job assessments are involved, we all tend to get much more linear and risk averse. When one is inventing for the shear joy of creating, the rules seem to be so much different.

I’m going to be thinking of that deeply for the next couple of months… stay tuned..

nite all, nite sam

-me