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Presentation originally given by Matt Jones at Frontiers Of Interaction V, Rome, Italy on 8th June 2009

I'm Thomas Thwaites and I'm trying to build a toaster, from scratch – beginning by mining the raw materials and ending with a product that Argos sells for only £3.99. A toaster.

Immaculate Telegraphy

Could humans at any point in history, given the right information, construct an electronic communication network? To test this hypothesis, Substitute Materials will attempt to build a functional electric battery and telegraph switch from materials found in the wilderness, using no modern tools except information from the internet. The telegraph will be a first step towards an ahistorical internet.

I saw the wonderful arduino/processing scope, and thought of many improvements, including:

* logic analyzer mode that shows 1's and 0's clearly.
* pause frame
* save frame
* configurable pin-count
* use as many pins as will fit on screen (tested with 12 at 800×800, seems ok)
* use scope class in your own thing, easy to reuse, and setup any kind of GUI
* shows volts, based on scaling settings

This software allows you to get a visual representation of an analog signal using Arduino and Processing. The resolution is 10 bits so this is not like a real oscilloscope but it is still pretty useful. It works by sending values read from the Arduino board (pin 0) to Processing through serial communication.