Projects

Everyone coming to dinacon has just 3 simple rules:

Make Something
Document and Share it
Give feedback to at least 2 other folks about their thing!

Here is a growing collection of all the amazing projects being developed at our fun little jungle/sea conference!

Success with water-adapted augmented reality (AR)

Success with water-adapted augmented reality (AR). Aquatic AR goggles, immersive AR environments … ImmerSea: Subversive Submersibles built and tested in installation experimentations creative real time overlays for experience alteration. Now tabulating of reactions. Check yr Head!

Foraging Map, Koh Lon – Craig Durkin

Craig Durkin started mapping fruit and foods you can find on the island! Many new fruits to him! https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1HMBiYD1Fu1vj8xdFbfOwSyYiGgx8CI8P&ll=7.793308955470929%2C98.3645219013215&z=16

Cococrafts 2 – Turn coconut into rope and wire: Dennis and Lydia

What to do with all those coconut husks? Make stuff with them!

Cococrafts 1 – Open a coconut: Dennis and Lydia

How to video straight from #dinacon! Dennis teaches you how to easily get into coconuts with nothing more than a rock (or even just another coconut)! You can use the secrets of #coconuts against themselves!

The Department of Amphibological Research is now open for submissions!

Here at the Department of Amphibological Research, we take image recognition on new expeditions in the natural world and tease out the limits of artificial intelligence. We invite you to collaborate with our team by providing new inspiration for our amphibological experiments. How to get involved: Submit a specimen for analysis by photographing something in your …

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AUV flyby

Minor change of plans: instead of running a mission (list of waypoints), the AUV was programmed to swim laps at minimal depth; this way it would always remain in visual contact from the kayak. This change was needed because the acoustic tracker broke and lost a channel (became mono) so was useless for tracking. …

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DinaSound is live!

Pearl Ryder is a cell biologist who came to DinaCon with the goal to explore the natural world to revitalize her life as a biologist and to learn more about creating audio stories. She has created DinaSound to collect her stories and sounds of the jungle. So far you can listen to an audio diary and a …

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Hiking Hacks: Designing Interactive Systems Paper – Andy Quitmeyer

During our Digital Naturalism Conference, I will actually have to go full-on meta-conference and present my research about the workshop model for Hiking Hacks at DIS 2018 http://dis2018.org/111-sessions-tuesday.html Here is a full “pre-print” downloadable copy of the paper i will present DIS_Hikinghacks_Revised_Final_PREPRINT

Mobile Coconut Yarn Holder – Danielle Hoogendijk

Dani sneakily crafted this wonderful device as a present for our node leader, Kitty Quitmeyer, the renown mobile hiking knitter. Stay tuned as this post updates to see how she made it (and how you can too!)