*Sounds like a great potential cross between reality-TV and a situation comedy.
Contestants, come on down!
http://www.homesenseproject.com/about-2/
"Homesense is an open research project launched in May 2010. This project is a collaboration between Tinker London and EDF R&D.
"WHAT IS IT?
"Homesense brings the open collaboration methods of online communities to physical infrastructures in the home. Instead of having products forced on them through a top-down design process, selected households will create their own smart homes and live with the technologies that they have developed themselves without any prior technical expertise. (((Uh-oh)))
"WHAT HAPPENS?
"Over the autumn of 2010, 6 households across Europe will be selected to take part in Homesense and as a result, have access to the latest in open source hardware and software tools. Homes in the UK, France and Italy will decide what they want to do with the tools in their own context, and share the results with the world.
"Each household will receive support from their own local expert, (((thank goodness))) also selected from the DIY electronics community, who will help them design tools, tackle problems as they emerge and help share the experience of living with smart things in the home.
"Details of signing up as a household are here.
"Details of joining us as an expert are here.
"The deadline for signup is June 4th 2010.
"Everything will be documented right here throughout the project and freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK"
