1. Be Here Now - Final Project
Courtney Mitchell
Chris Egervary
Doug Kanter

2. Problem:
People in the urban environment,
overwhelmed by information flow,
have lost touch with nature +
simple pleasures of being alive.

3. to us,
“BE HERE NOW”
is about:
- Health (especially mental health)
- Being Present + Aware
- Nature
- Perspective
- Balance
- Simplicity

4. to us,
“BE HERE NOW”
is about:
“Stop + smell the roses”
“Don’t get hung up on the bullshit”
“Clear your head”
“Less is more”
“See the bigger picture”

5. Mission Statement:
Create a practical way of reintegrating
awareness of nature
+
simple human pleasures
back into our busy human lives.

6. Our Answer:
Windowsill
(a working title)
A daily photo feed showing you the world outside your window.
- A camera is integrated into a flower pot & bird feeder.
- It takes pictures automatically at sunrise, sunset & noon.
- It also takes a picture any bird when it lands at your bird feeder.
- Pictures are fed into your preferred info flow service
(Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, etc.) (details tbd)

7. The Product:
Technology:
- Arduino
- Camera
- Proximity sensor (bird sensor)
- Internet connectivity (wifi shield)
- Back-end photo database / service
- Front-end interface

8. The Product:
Physical Product:
- Flower pot
- Bird feeder
- Window attachment

9. The Service:
Integration into a news feed

10. Interaction:

11. Network:
a new way to see the recent weather somewhere

12. Similar sites:
EarthCam.com
Weather.com