Be Inspired
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- Drone Photography
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- Botanicals — Plants Talking via Twitter
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- Bruno Munro Field of Lights
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- Skykomish Bridge Project
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- Wind Map
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- Electrc Forest
- Wind Map: visualization of wind patterns
- Fields of lights: and other projects by artist Bruce Munro
- Windwalkers: Wind powered kinetic sculptures
- Skykomish Bridge Project: with interactive lights
- Electric Forest Festival: cool laser and RGB lighting
- Cicada Tracker: An example of distributed listenership
- Botanicals: Talking plants use Twitter
- Caliparks: a search engine combining social media and parks data
- Forecast.io: forecasting weather app with NOAA data
- Leafsnap: an electronic field guide
- Drone Photography: a whole new way of looking at the world
The Skykomish/Sky Valley Area
- Town of Skykomish
- Skykomish Historical Society
- Sky Valley Arts Council
- http://www.skyvalleychronicle.com/
- Skykomish Ranger District
- Shelly’s Pinterest board
Potential Data Sources
- Forest Service
- Fish and Wildlife, some on http://geography.wa.gov/data-products-services/data/data-catalog
- NOAA — National Climatic Data Center, Oceanographic
- USGS — US Geological survey, with data about water, earthquakes, etc. Data catalog
- National Digital Forecast Data (used by the Wind project)
- Washington State
- Skykomish Historical Society Photo Repository
How To’s, Tools, and Online Stores
- Instructables: Tutorials for all sorts of projects, a great place for ideas
- Arduino: Arduino microcontroller development environment, sample software
- Adafruit: Electronics, microcontrollers, sensors, LEDs. Good place for tutorials as well as supplies.
- Make Magazine: A lot of great ideas, how to’s, books, etc
- Processing: A commonly used programming language for artists, there are a lot of open source libraries, sample codes, etc.
- D3: great library of data-driven javascript visualizations you may want to adapt