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Co-founders David Carr and John Kestner worked together in the Information Ecology program at MIT Media Lab on projects that sought to connect the digital and physical world in meaningful ways.<\/p>\n
An early example is their Proverbial Wallet<\/a> project, which allows your wallet to monitor bank account balances and provide tactile feedback when funds are getting low.<\/p>\n In late 2011 they announced Twine, a small plastic square that promised to “connect your things to the Internet,\u00a0without a nerd degree.”\u00a0In just over a month they raised half a million dollars from almost 4,000 backers on Kickstarter. Most recently at SXSW in 2013, Supermechanical introduced\u00a0Twine Cloud Shield<\/a>, a Twine connector that triggers actions from an Arduino and enables output to the Internet.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_sidebar area=”et_pb_widget_area_4″ show_border=”off” _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,1_4,1_4,1_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_sidebar area=”et_pb_widget_area_2″ show_border=”off” _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_sidebar area=”et_pb_widget_area_8″ show_border=”off” _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_sidebar area=”et_pb_widget_area_10″ show_border=”off” _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_sidebar area=”et_pb_widget_area_11″ show_border=”off” _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Supermechanical is a Kickstarter success story whose goal is to give everyday objects a voice on the Internet. Co-founders David Carr and John Kestner worked together in the Information Ecology program at MIT Media Lab on projects that sought to connect the digital and physical world in meaningful ways. An early example is their Proverbial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" http:\/\/vimeo.com\/66669519<\/p> Co-founders David Carr and John Kestner worked together in the Information Ecology program at MIT Media Lab on projects that sought to connect the digital and physical world in meaningful ways.<\/p> An early example is their Proverbial Wallet<\/a> project, which allows your wallet to monitor bank account balances and provide tactile feedback when funds are getting low.<\/p> In late 2011 they announced Twine, a small plastic square that promised to \"connect your things to the Internet,\u00a0without a nerd degree.\"\u00a0In just over a month they raised half a million dollars from almost 4,000 backers on Kickstarter. Most recently at SXSW in 2013, Supermechanical introduced\u00a0Twine Cloud Shield<\/a>, a Twine connector that triggers actions from an Arduino and enables output to the Internet.<\/p> \u00a0<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/wearemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/wearemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/wearemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/wearemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/wearemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/wearemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/wearemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/wearemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Supermechanical is a Kickstarter success story whose goal is to give everyday objects a voice on the Internet.<\/h3>