What's new?

We've been working on new projects linked to air quality with The Internet of Curious Things.

At the recent Art of Tinkering event, during Leeds Digital Festival, we created a 'Digital Peony' project and started to look at embedding smart sensors into paper craft activities. Those visualisations took temperature, humidity and light data from the workshop space and, using the Envirosense add-on with Codebug, illuminated the paper flowers with strings of LEDs.

Why flowers?

Now we’ve taken inspiration from the Japanese lotus flower, known for it’s ability to rise up from a bed of mud each morning and emerge as a flawless and beautiful bloom, to develop latest activities to help everyone understand the science behind air quality.

What's the connection with air quality?

Lotus flowers are said to be resistant to pollution and have a water-purifying function, with symbolism different across numerous cultures where it plays a role.

We’ve used them to help share messages about air quality, using their beauty to make issues visible to everyone as a floral and visual spectacle.

Creative Problem Solving

Here's how:

1. Paper Flower Craft

2. Embedding Envirosense and LEDs