What is DDiMIT

DDiMIT stands for Designing Digital Media for the Internet of Things.

What is the Internet of Things

DDiMIT Space

Prototyping Tools
Workstation quality 3D printing and graphics workstations (2) A Stratasys 3d printer - commercial quality FDM A Sherline CNC-ready mill A Sony A320 digital SLR Two Sony Bloggie video cameras A Versa 35W Laser cutter A Sony Video Projector Adobe CS5 Master collection Multiple electronic supplies; Arduino microcontrollers, etc.

DDiMIT is a catalyst for the Internet of Things

DDiMIT is a hackspace for business

DDiMIT is a research project

DDiMIT History

OMDC Partnerships Fund Application September 2009 Grant Awarded March 2010 Space opened October 2010 Official Opening February 2011 Original P-Fund monies end December 2010 Application planned for September 2011 P-Fund Round

Who is DDiMIT

Coordinating Committee
Matt Ratto, DDiMIT Director, iSchool Adriana Ieraci, KMDI Executive Director Kostas Plataniotis, KMDI Director Nina Czegledy, KMDI Senior Fellow Marie-Eve Blanger, Lab Coordinator

DDiMIT Partners
Primary Partner Knowledge Media Design Institute, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto Secondary Partner The University of Western Ontario Additional Partners Aesthetec Studio Inc. Brock University Cooler Solutions Inc. DigitalLunch Inc. Emerging Methods Inc. FAD Research The Fair Trade Jewellery Co. Ideavibes Interactive Ontario InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre marblemedia Interactive Inc.

MediaLab TO Normative Design Inc. Ontario College of Art and Design Panda Rose Consulting Ross + Doell Inc. WaveDNA Sweet Caesar Inc. Three S Productions Torch Partnership Inc. Toronto International Film Festival

DDiMIT as a Pre-Commercialization Platform

Filling the Pre-Commercialization Gap

Making and keeping collaborations warm Making ideas concrete

DDiMIT as a Digital Economy Trading Zone

Create a hub in Toronto around the Internet of Things Leverage the expertise of the informal hacking community who often struggle to connect the work they do to commercialization and funding initiatives

Opportunity

Create a low-barrier way for small and medium-sized firms to connect with academia and students Stake a claim in an area of DM that isnt currently effectively addressed Fill a critical pre-commercialization gap from lab to first prototype

DDiMIT is...

Idea Incubator
company incubation is too expensive and risky, prototyping physical objects requires specialized space

Relationship Broker
small firms have focused expertise but need to partner in order to innovate in the Internet of Things

Matchmaker
put students, researchers, companies and non-profits together to share expertise

Research Project

Projects
(what do we do?)

RFID Web Security Project

Problem Solution Hardware prototyping for web development company Brainstormed solutions, matchmake DDiMIT members and web development company

Origin Collaborators Outcomes

Web development company Faculty of Information, Alumni Contract work for students and alumni, testable hardware prototype, new DDiMIT member

Yurt of Things
Problem Solution Origin Collaborators Need to understand service model of the Internet of Things Build testbed for exploring rural connectivity and sensing Digital Lunch Faculty of Information, InterAccess, Panda Rose Consulting Novel service models for IoT connectivity, development of DDiMIT in-house expertise, new relations between firms

Outcomes

DIY Smart Grid

Problem Easily deployable sensor and smart meter system to encourage changes in consumer energy consumption Development of open source multi-sensor hardware platform and software stack Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Solution Origin Collaborators

Faculty of Information, Digital Lunch, George Brown (tentative), York University, Cities Centre Pilot project (potential Evergreen Brickworks), new skillset and expertise among DDiMIT members

Outcomes

Kids Construction Kit

Problem Solution Origin Collaborators Outcomes Issues of kids digital creativity, issues of new media literacy and the creativity crisis Design and brainstorming of IoT construction sets Faculty of Information Mozilla (tentative), Story Planet Design Jam (tentative with Mozilla), prototypes

Desktop Digital Fabrication

Problem Exploring scalability and business models around desktop digital Fabrication R&D, Panda Bot, open source 3D printer Panda Rose Consulting InterAccess, Faculty of Information Prototype, SSHRC-funded report on DDF

Solution Origin Collaborators Outcomes

Workshops & Round Tables

Workshops focused on hands-on skills and shared experimentation provide partners with the expertise and skillsets necessary to widen their understanding of the IoT.
PAST WORKSHOPS Workshop 1: TIMBITs (Twittering Infrastructure for Making Basic Internet of Things) Workshop 2: Wearables and Digital Media Workshop 3: Desktop Digital Fabrication (3D Printing) Workshop 4: Intro to Augmented Reality and Layar UPCOMING WORKSHOPS Workshop 5 (April 2011): Making Noise - Creating musical instruments using sensors Workshop 6 (May 2011): Introduction to 3D Modelling

Round Tables discussing the nascent issues surrounding the Internet of Things provide partners with a critical understanding of the social consequences of product design for the IoT.
PAST ROUND TABLES Round Table 1: Magazines and Digital Media Publishing Round Table 2: Internet of Things and Intellectual Property UPCOMING ROUND TABLES Round Table 2: Internet of Hype?

We also host relevant partner activities in our space

UPCOMING EVENTS Subtle Technologies Festival: The Network as Material, Workshop, May 28-31 Mozilla Design Jam: June 11

Classes & Tutorials

Short courses and tutorials scheduled for late summer:

Arduino Processing Electronics 3D Printing 3D Modelling Wearables Hacking the Kinect PHP Python Boarduino Soldering Laser Cutter & Inkscape Web spidering

ddimit.org matt.ratto@utoronto.ca me.belanger@utoronto.ca