Matthew Sheret

Neat little nudge on Russell’s post about Measuring Pebbles and Companion Objects.

Wouldn’t it be good if there was a servo control app for the iPhone and iPad? Where you could tap in some on/offs, forward/backs and control a motor or motors via bluetooth or wifi or the headphone port. Then your iPhone or iPad could drive itself around. And Matt’s Lego iPhone stand could drive up to him and tell him to get typing.

Which of course I read using this

The post-script to making this stand is that I didn’t remember until half an hour later that I’ve actually got a dock for this phone anyway. I got caught up in the creation and customisation of this familiar, and it’s not unrelated to these three pieces of context:

1) The Girl had been away for a few days, and I’d been alone in the flat a lot

2) Before and after a full day at the (new) job I’m still doing freelance projects. The further removed from my laptop these projects are the better for my attention span and my enjoyment

3) I really like playing with Lego

Separating, or at the very least augmenting, a ‘companion’ element from screens feels important, but in quite a natural way.

Basically, why aren’t there things at Maplin’s I can plug this in to yet?