It’s been a busy few weeks. In the 4 weeks since mid-October I’ve done three Processing workshops, two of which were 5-day workshops. From Porto and Stuttgart to Venice and finally Brussels and the Cimatics festival, it’s been a long and interesting where I’ve been fortunate to meet many new people. but I’m also feeling the wear and tear of too many airports and too little time spent sitting making things.

So right now it feels good to come “home” to Oslo for two weeks of teaching and hanging out. I look forward to seeing the Interaction Design group at AHO again. Last time was the presentation of their excellent Processing games, which honestly impressed me. They had really come far in just five weeks. This time the mission is to make a social installation, so it’ll be interesting to see how they approach it.

Gunnar Bothner-By: "test" - joint made using rapid prototyping

The lack of activity on the AHO Interaction Design Flickr group would indicate that the students still don’t quite get what Flickr can do for them. Oh well. The consolation prize is that their blogs are starting to look more like real tools than simple assignments made to please the teacher. While surfing their blogs I found the nice RP object above, I’m hoping for more such gems in the future.

Here’s the blogroll for the class, have a look if you have a minute or two. Some are quite basic, but most show real potential to at least become good project blogs. I’m planning to do a little inspirational lecture about blogging while I’m here, maybe that’ll push things along.

• Øyvinn Berven: Oyvinn’s Weblog
• Gunnar Bothner-by: rebelsincontrol
• Christer Carlsson: Kakofon
• Anders Christensen: bowlight.wordpress.com
• Ingrid Alice Clausen: Learning human behavior
• Fan Fan: “Smiley blog”
• Karin Heckhoff: Karin H. Eckhoff’s Blogg
• Knut Karlsen: Notes from Knut
• Marianne Rolfsen: :nteractions
• Natacha Ruivo: Processing of thoughts
• Christopher Svendsen: Christopher’s interactive sofa
• Ingeborg Marie Dehs Thomas: Interactive immelie
• Peder Torget: Peder does interaction design!