Daptec

Our first testing session last week yielded some great results and suggestions on how to make the Flat Holm data physicalisation even better! A big thank you to all who took part!

The Flat Holm map is getting scaled up to the actual size it will be in Techniquest and members of the team are looking at just how many LED lights we're going to need to make the colours really pop!

The team has also been testing various sun patterns for the weather automata as we try to make interesting and meaningful patterns driven by the weather data we receive from Flat Holm!

Unfortunately, due to time constraints, the interactive sustainability farmhouse is being reduced to a simpler idea, perhaps a simple picture of the farmhouse taken from the island in order to still give the back side of the data physicalisation the idea that it is a full image of the island (farmhouse, sky with weather automata, solar panels, etc.).

Watch this space for even more updates!!!

Last week, one of the DAPTEC team was lucky enough to finally go out to Flat Holm island for the day! It was an amazing experience, being able to finally see the island we have only heard about and it allowed us to have a better feel for how the work we are doing will benefit the island. Whilst over there, our team member got speaking to some of the volunteers on the island as well as the island warden himself to learn even more about Flat Holm and add to our pool of knowledge.

Back on the mainland, we decided that the toblerones needed a much more official sounding name, so they have been renamed the weather automata! Some of the team have been on site working on this structure over the past week, laser cutting patterns and attaching them and also programming some patterns to see how the weather will be represented!

It was National Meadows Day on Saturday. At Daptec we are recording data of the Bluebells found on Flat Holms grassland. But did you know that blue bells are not actually blue but rather a type of violet.