NETLab Toolkit
Software toolkit for interaction design (2004-present)
The NETLab Toolkit is a set of free software and hardware tools for student and professional designers who want to create interactive objects and spaces. The project opens up new possibilities for design work that previously required relatively deep technical knowledge or close collaboration 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's plug-in architecture allows more seasoned developers to write plug-ins for any controller hardware.