Bloctopus: A novice modular sensor system for playful prototyping

TEI 2015 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 347-354

  Sadler, Joel ^a   Durfee, Kevin ^a   Shluzas, Lauren ^a   Blikstein, Paulo ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embedded sensors; Hardware; Prototyping; Toolkits

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; MESSAGE PASSING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

DATA FLOW MODELING; ELECTRICAL INTERFACING; ELECTRONIC MODULES; EMBEDDED SENSORS; SOFTWARE PROGRAMMING; TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION; TOOLKITS; VISUAL PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84924024645     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2677199.2680581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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