1. Find your Processing App
2. Command click and choose “Show Package Contents”
3. Go inside your Contents folder and open Info.plist with TextEdit (or other text editor)
4. Add the following code just before the last </dict> tag

   
UTExportedTypeDeclarations


UTTypeConformsTo

public.text
public.plain-text

UTTypeDescription
PDE code file
UTTypeIdentifier
org.processing.pde
UTTypeTagSpecification

com.apple.ostype
TEXT
public.filename-extension

pde






5. Save this file
6. Make sure Processing is closed and open terminal
7. From your home directory execute “touch /Applications/Processing.app”
8. Now you should be able to Quick Look for Processing .pde files!!

References

Lithium-Ion Batteries: Solid-Electrolyte Interphase
>Perla B Balbuena, Yixuan Wang; Imperial College Press
Environmental Burdens of Large Lithium-Ion Batteries Developed in a Japanese National Project
>Kaoru ISHIHARA, Nobuo KIHIRA, Nobuyuki TERADA and Toru IWAHORI
Life Cycle Assessment LCA of Li-Ion batteries for electric vehicles
>M. Gauch, R. Widmer, D. Notter, A. Stamp, H.J. Althaus, P. Wäger
Li-ion and NiMH battery recycling at Umicore
>Jan Tytgat
Tesla Motors Engineering Blog
Dan Steingart, PhD
>Assistant Professor – Dept of Chemical Engineering (City College of NY)
Building better batteries
>M. Armand and J.-M. Tarascon
Issues and challenges facing rechargeable lithium batteries
>J.-M. Tarascon & M. Armand

Interest

Electric cars are becoming an increasingly viable alternative form of transportation. There has been a resurgence in the interest for electric cars since the “death of the electric car” (See film “Who Killed the Electric Car”. The key component to performance of EVs is their battery. The efficiency and performance of the ESS(Energy Stroage System) determines cost of the vehicle and therefore has a large impact on the market.

Innovation

Lithium batteries are currently a very popular field of innovation since this type of research is beneficial to many intrustries including laptop and other mobile device production. Most experimentation takes places through testing the use of different types of elements for the anodes and cathodes of these batteries. Other innovations occur through using different form factors and configurations of these cells. It was recently discovered that the best performance comes through configuring a large number of small cells connected in series and parallel as opposed to using a fewer number of larger cells.

Regulatory

In the US

Safety is regulated by the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and Regulations run by the Department of Transportation. These regulations determine the standards for safety testing, that including thermal and impact testing of the battery. These standards only address driver and passenger safety and do not environmental concerns

International Standards

These standards were created by the EU do not apply to batteries produced in the US.

• Safety
• Altitude simulation: simulating air transport.
• Thermal cycling: assessing cell and battery seal integrity.
• Vibration: simulating vibration during transport.
• Shock: simulating possible impacts during transport.
• External short circuit: simulating an external short circuit.
• Overcharge: evaluating ability of a rechargeable battery to withstand overcharging.
• RoHS – batteries that meet this standard do not include
• Lead
• Mercury
• Cadmium
• Hexavalent chromium (chromium xxx or Cr6+)
• Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB)
• Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE)

WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) sates that, from 13 August 2005 onwards, manufacturers are required to finance the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of all WEEE sold under their brand.

Activists/NGOs

The first time electric car advocacy hit the mainstream was with the release of “Who Killed the Electric Car” in 2006. They supported other organizations such as Plug in America who advocates for zero-emission vehicles. There are also federal bills such as E-Drive which funds the development of EV (Electric Vehicles) for use in organizations including the USPS. Call2Recycle is the largest rechargeable battery recycling organization and is funded by product manufactures around the world. They provide services for recycling batteries, advocate environmental protection, and respond to government regulations.

Consumer Motivation

The major drivers for consumer in electric vehicles is reducing fuel costs and emissions. Through buying an electric car, fuel cost decrease significantly and even become zero when using a sustainable energy source. Consumers are also given a tax break by the government on energy efficient vehicles. Consumers still often don’t have the foresight to weigh long term benefits of products against the higher cost of electric and hybrid vehicles in relation to their gas fueled counterparts. This cost factor is tied to the battery technology, meaning with the development of cheaper more efficient batteries, the cost of electric vehicles will decrease. Consumers are also becoming more conscious about reducing emissions and therefore have incentive to buy electric vehicles in order to offset their carbon footprint.

Collaboration between Igal Nassima and Michael Zick Doherty

Concept
Hotel lobbies are shared spaces for hotel residents and visitors that integrate social spaces such as bars, restaurants, and waiting areas. The hotel provides concierge services for the visitors for variety of information about the area including activities, resources, attractions, etc. Many people gather around tables in the lobby as a form of interaction, as well as for other activities such as playing games, waiting, and getting information from newspapers and other guides.

Concierge table lives on the hotel lobby floor, creating a vehicle for social interaction as well as providing and storing information for each guest. Guests connect to the table through their unique ID embedded in their hotel key card. The guest can put their cards on the table and the table draws the data onto the screen. The table allows multiple users to interact. A user can decide if they want to use the whole table and share their content or use just a section of it. After creating and editing maps and data, users can send this info to their mobile device via SMS or other mobile application.

User story
A Hotel guest approaches the table and on screen text asks the guest to place their key card on the surface. Once card is placed on surface, the guest is shown a menu with options to browse events or view recommended events based on a previous interaction with the hotel concierge. If user choose “browse events”, they are given a sub menu allowing them to choose what types of events they’d like to browse. Venues are aggregated both on the map and as a new menu listing. The guest  is also presented with a time range selector that allows further filtering of results. After selecting an event from the listing, details are displayed with the time, location, cost and description of event. From there, guests can order ticket that are charged to their hotel account as well as send event information via email or SMS associated with their account.

Technical
Fiducial markers are printed on the hotel key card to give each one a unique ID. Rooms with multiple guests can also have multiple keys so each guest has their own profile. When key cards are set on the table, it loads the data for that guest from a secure server.Users interact with the table using multitouch technology that tracks finger movement using blob detection.

Implementation
Our final product for the spacial media midterm was a prototype of this table with a subset of features. We were able to implement both the finger and fiducial maker tracking, though had some issues with precise spatial calibration between the camera and projector. We discovered that our infrared bulbs create a light source that was too concentrate and decided future prototypes would need a more distributed lighting solution such as LED strips. We used the Reactivision tracking application which sent tracking data via OSC to our GUI application in openFrameworks. In our next version we plan to use Flash as it integrates well with open source map APIs and has well supported event listening and GUI creation. The events were loaded into the map via XML. We also save data to keycards using XML as well. We were able to enable movement across the map, but the senstivity need to be adjusted to create a more fluid interaction with the user.

We plan to continue with this prototype in the coming two weeks and present our concept to hotels in New York.

A Modular GIS tool that allows individuals and institutions to explore and analyze various data in relation to other sets, parameters, and values.

this project is being developed through a partnership between Michael Zick Doherty and Igal Nassima at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program

The future of bar tending is NOW.

The sound creates tensions and releases. Squeaking breaks build tension, pneumatic breaks release pressure. Vertical space is bounded by the rumble of trains below and the clacking of tracks above.

Pigeons flutter in and out, cooing.

Jackson Heights Audio