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	<description>Bas Botermans&#039; Graduation Working Log</description>
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		<title>The Final Touch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The provotype is nearing completion. It stayed here in the Netherlands with me for a week to get the final touch. Which was a lot more than I expected of course. Let me start with the biggest frustration, the power supply. Back in the days when power supplies were plain simple and created with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designthings.nl/?p=115</link>
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		<title>Revisit of Denmark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The chips are finally here so the fun can begin. I made one mistake when soldering the led driver board which was to not connect the common ground. So another chip has gone in and... fried again. So there is probably something else not as it should be. In the breadboard the chip worked fine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designthings.nl/?p=113</link>
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		<title>R.I.P. electro stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me start with the good news. The electronics are in! The LEDs are looking exactly as the other one so that shouldn't be any problem. What actually IS a problem is that I fried some of the parts... So some mysterious reason one of the Xbee modules just stopped working after a week of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designthings.nl/?p=130</link>
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		<title>Electronics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The casing seems to fit tight even without gluing the parts together. The friction and construction keeps it nicely in position. The inside is what has to be created. The LEDs are ordered and should be here a week ago. Unfortunately there is something wrong with the supplier. He only has 4 LEDs in stock [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designthings.nl/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Building the demonstrator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The time was there to build the indoor climate lamp. Now it comes down to what materials should be used. One thing that is for sure is that the arduino is used to receive the input from the Xbee modules. The logical thing to do is use the arduino to control the output. For the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designthings.nl/?p=110</link>
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		<title>Inspiration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because the plan is to build a lamp that responds to Indoor Climate factors, this seems useful for inspiration. Also controlled by an Arduino. Hackea a lamp oriented Arduino workshop from AlluvioneMediatica on Vimeo.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designthings.nl/?p=106</link>
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		<title>Meeting Froukje and Walter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I was in the Netherlands for my moving, I had the opportunity to do a coach-chair meeting. Here are the notes I made during the meeting. The provotypes should be integrated in the daily life of the users. Why is provocation over time that important? One moment of intervention could make all the difference. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designthings.nl/?p=101</link>
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		<title>Comfort is&#8230; Results of the etnographic study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The comfort themes are made to sum up the main areas of comfort that arose from the user studies. Because the titles are quite ambiguous I will elaborate on them a bit more after the break. Comfort is what people make Comfort is bringing feeling, observing and understanding in tune Comfort is about social relations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designthings.nl/?p=98</link>
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		<title>Business Partners Overview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next is a short explanation of every stakeholder with their area of interest and current products. www.velux.com Company Velux is specialized in windows and blinds. Their focus now lies on sustainable living. They look at a house from a holistic viewpoint with energy efficiency, healthy indoor climate and renewable energy as main points of interest. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designthings.nl/?p=95</link>
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		<title>Provocation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for not posting my first ideas, but I think this is also one important part that was still missing. Inspiration that looks at provocation. Bill Viola - Ocean without a shore. This piece is about the contradictory meaning of the altar. They are in one hand a place to pray and worship the death [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designthings.nl/?p=90</link>
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