Alex Zivanovic

I had a perfect London day yesterday: Breakfast in Brick Lane, round a trendy design exhibition, a salt beef bagel lunch, a stroll around Spitalfields market (almost bumping into Alexa Chung), coffee in Borough Market, stroll down the river to the South Bank (ice cream), over to Covent Garden (coffee in Neal St), back to the South Bank (sunset from Waterloo Bridge), watch latin music live gig (bump into random friend), home. And a beautiful sunny day and moonlit evening. Perfect. How could I live anywhere else?

Bizarrely enough, my PhD project, Bloodbot, has appeared on this month’s Wired website, despite being years old.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/surgical-robots/3/

We had the Gadget Show film crew round on Friday to film our work on two projects for them. One is a robot that throws a ball for your pet dog to chase, the other is a harness for a cat that allows it to stream video and for you to track it’s position via a GPS/GSM unit. I spent quite a bit of time  in the preceeding two weeks programming the CatCam software.

I’m attending the Tangible and Embedded Interaction Conference in Cambridge.

I will be presenting several projects at the Kinetica Art Fair at the end of February 2009 and running a workshop. More details to follow.

Laser Theremin installation in Dublin

In December 2008 I helped artist Balint Bolygo to implement his Epicycloidoscope (or Laser theremin) project. It is currently on display at the Lightwave Festival in Dublin until 20 February 2009.

It will be on display at the Kinetica Art Fair at the end of February.

Ben has twittered a photo of me pointing to page 175 in his book “Bad Science” where I have the honour of being called “one of the nation’s more childish electronics geeks.”