Regular visitors to the site may notice that we've added a couple of sections to the left hand navigation: Map Items and Stories. These are my first steps in visualising all of the data we have, and the connections between them, so that we can create further maps over time.

The map items are all the plug-in items we have on the float. Browsing through the lists of items you can see how each item is connected to others, through connections Kathrin mapped out prior to the start of the Triennial.

On top of all the relations between the plug-in's there are your stories. These are the connections that are inferred by the mapping we make at the float. Each story is split up into a 'portrait' and a number of stories. The portrait reflects where the visitor we've mapped have come from and how they ended up at the triennial, the stories are how they are connected to the cultural spaces in Folkestone.

It's taken a while to get these up due to a number of teething difficulties with the whole setup - it's quite a complex system and this is the first version of it. We will now be uploading new stories onto the site each day, along with photographs, and if you've already come and told us your story you can search for yourself if you know your story ID, or if you gave us a name you can search by your name (or your friend's names).

Please let us know if you see anything wrong with your mapping: there are quite a few issues with some of them from the early days, and we've not been able to attach images to mappings as reliably as we'd like to, so there may be some missing or some attached incorrectly. A quick email letting us know the Story ID ( eg m48625ab2 ) and what's wrong and we'll get on with updating it.

This might not look like a map, in the traditional sense, at the moment, but if you start browsing through the links you'll start to see how places are interconnected by people's stories, how certain places are more fundamental to stories than others. These connections are a map, albeit represented like a text based adventure game on an 80's computer. My ability to see the map in my head probably comes from too many hours spent playing them as a kid.

My task now is to start to gather all of the data we have hear into some form of visualisation. The first step of this is for me to start visualising each of the stories we've been given. Once I can see the spread of those I'll be able to see how we can clearly map the relationships between the stories.

So, please keep checking back to see new bit's appear, and if you want to be kept updated of changes subscribe to out mailing list or our blog's RSS feed.

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Posted by Dorian Moore on Friday, July 18, 2008 at 23:42 GMT

Ross has updated one of his kiosks to record some musical confessions from the atendeed of SHOWstudio's Fashion DJS project. This is my contribution, many more here

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Posted by Dorian Moore on Friday, July 11, 2008 at 12:10 GMT

I picked up one of the final collector signs from Public Works today, and brought it home along with some strange looks I got as I carried it past the the hordes outside of various pubs. The final part in place and it's all working well, save for the circuit being wired anti-clockwise, though that's easily solved.

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Posted by Dorian Moore on Friday, May 23, 2008 at 23:04 GMT
Last modified Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 20:25 GMT

It's neater than it looks, honest guv.

After a long block soldering, unsolder, re-soldering, I've finally managed to get all of the data collector box together, and this is what it looks like before it's boxed up. I've soldered the extra components and controllers onto an Arduino 'ProtoShield'. I made a few silly mistakes, but they were easily fixed.

The protoshield means I can easily replace the various components if there is a failure, especially as the cables are all attached via screw down terminal blocks. The code for the Arduino board is pretty much complete, but I want to do some thorough testing before I finally load it onto the microcontroller without the Arduino Bootloader.

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Posted by Dorian Moore on Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 20:54 GMT
Last modified Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 17:25 GMT

It's neater than it looks, honest guv.

After a long block soldering, unsolder, re-soldering, I've finally managed to get all of the data collector box together, and this is what it looks like before it's boxed up. I've soldered the extra components and controllers onto an Arduino 'ProtoShield'. I made a few silly mistakes, but they were easily fixed.

The protoshield means I can easily replace the various components if there is a failure, especially as the cables are all attached via screw down terminal blocks. The code for the Arduino board is pretty much complete, but I want to do some thorough testing before I finally load it onto the microcontroller without the Arduino Bootloader.

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Posted by Dorian Moore on Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 20:54 GMT
Last modified Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 20:25 GMT

Andy just pointed out this listing on the Zero 1 home page made me sound like the Alan Parsons Project

Posted by Dorian Moore on Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 16:09 GMT
Last modified Friday, July 11, 2008 at 12:15 GMT

A small milestone, seeing the start/stop buttons work in context as I do final tests to the prototype

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Posted by Dorian Moore on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 20:50 GMT
Last modified Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 17:25 GMT

A small milestone, seeing the start/stop buttons work in context as I do final tests to the prototype

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Posted by Dorian Moore on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 20:50 GMT
Last modified Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 20:25 GMT

This is the final circuit in all it's glory, on a breadboard. With the box being started behind it.

I've made the final prototype for the data collector, complete with stat-stop switches and a status indicator LED. It's much much simpler than I expected when I started this project, and that can only be a good thing in my book. Now to get soldering and get it all into the box, which I picked up from Public Works today.

Whilst I was at Public Works earlier Andreas showed me some of the signs, and I also picked up the final box for the data collector, and started fitting it out.

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Posted by Dorian Moore on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 20:40 GMT
Last modified Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 17:25 GMT

This is the final circuit in all it's glory, on a breadboard. With the box being started behind it.

I've made the final prototype for the data collector, complete with stat-stop switches and a status indicator LED. It's much much simpler than I expected when I started this project, and that can only be a good thing in my book. Now to get soldering and get it all into the box, which I picked up from Public Works today.

Whilst I was at Public Works earlier Andreas showed me some of the signs, and I also picked up the final box for the data collector, and started fitting it out.

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Posted by Dorian Moore on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 20:40 GMT
Last modified Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 20:25 GMT