NETLab Hub
NETLab Connect (New Ecology of Things Lab Connection) is a project to create free, open-source software and hardware tools for student and professional designers who want to create interactive objects and spaces. The project strives to open up new possibilities for design work that previously required deep technical skill or collaborations with engineers.
My role in this collaborative project has been the design and programming of a server application (the NETLab Hub) that allows designers to program client applications (written in Flash, for example) to easily talk to sensors and microcontrollers in a networked environment. Although it currently supports a few microcontrollers, the Hub also allows more seasoned developers to write plug-ins for any controller hardware.