Shigeru Kobayashi

Blog:
http://www.yapan.org/
http://twitter.com/kotobuki

"In Japan we met with Shigeru Kobayashi (gainer.cc). gainer.cc is an open source Cypress chip-based dev board with an open IDE. Shigeru is working on a wireless XBee prototyping dev board (above). Shigeru also has a new book Physical computer with gainer it's somewhat like our Making things talk but in Japanese and gainer specific of course."

Timeline:

1998: Shigeru Kobayashi is beta-testing Pure Data.

2006, June:
The Gainer - a toolkit for physical computing - has been released.
http://gainer.cc/

2007.11.01: Funnel build 001 has been released.
2008.10.20: Funnel build 008 has been released.
"Funnel is a toolkit for physical computing. Funnel supports Arduino I/O boards, Gainer I/O modules, XBee wireless modems and FIO (Funnel I/O) boards. The user can set filters to input or outputs ports: range division, filtering (e.g. LPF, HPF), scaling and oscillators."

http://funnel.cc/
http://code.google.com/p/funnel/

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