I’m at the Mediamatic Triggered by RFID workshop right now, so i might post more RFID-related stuff than usual.
Thanks so much to those who have answered my call for rfid projects, keep them coming, pliiiiz!

The periscope allows children access to information that would not necessarily be available to them within the context of a field trip. Basically an information/navigation device, the periscope contains a movie showing a panorama of the woodland and thumbnail images linking to other movies.

By navigating through the panorama and the links, users can view the lifecycles of woodlice; to see up close some of the tiny creatures who feed from the leaves and leaf-litter; to see the way the wood changes over a season, or a period of fifty years, etc. Additional information, in the form of Flash animations, can be accessed by adding or removing RFID tagged objects within range of the RFID tag reader aerial which is among the objects protruding from the Periscope’s stem.

By Danielle Wilde, with technical suppport from Ted Phelps and Eric Harris. Royal College of Art, London and the University of Sussex, UK.

Thanks Danielle. Also by Danielle Wilde: a body shop and Ange.