The Cultural Technology Development Lab is an R&D program where university faculty and students, museum professionals, and other partners work together on technology and design solutions for cultural institutions.
The Museduino is an open source hardware kit developed in-house by CTDL. It is built to support robust public exhibits using the arduino IDE and the Arduino Uno footprint. It’s currently deployed around the country in museums, national parks, and installations. Information, tutorials, schematics and kit purchasing is at museduino.org.
Contact us at info.ctdl@gmail.com (project inquiries, museduino information or questions)
Past partners include: SITE Santa Fe, The Carlsbad Museum & Art Center, The Bradbury Science Museum at Los Alamos, the NM Museum of Natural History and Science, Colorado National Monument, Acadia National Park, Roswell Museum & Art Center, Manhattan Project National Park in Los Alamos, Las Cruces Museum of Nature and Science, and the New Mexico History Museum.
The CTDL has been artist- in-residence at Grinnell College, Kenyon College, and College of the Atlantic.
CTDL Projects
Stockpile Stewardship
Video player application for Surface Pro 8 tablets. Stockpile Stewardship exhibit, National Atomic Testing Museum
Los Alamos Trails App
The Los Alamos Trails app profiles dozens of trails in Los Alamos County, Bandelier National Monument, and the Valles Caldera National Preserve.
ButtARfly
ButtARfly is a prototype web app that is part of the Cooper Hewitt Interaction Lab’s Activating Smithsonian open access initiative. NMHU faculty Jonathan Lee project lead, Rianne Trujillo, web developer, Miriam Langer, content developer and Lauren Addario, audio advisor and content developer worked together to develop this project.
The Doomed Balloon Flight of S.A. Andree
Albuquerque International Balloon Museum The balloon flight of S.A. Andree Interactive Touch Tables
Oldfarm Mobile App
Oldfarm Mobile App Acadia National Park
Trackways Projection
Las Cruces Museum of Nature and Science, Trackways Exhibit Step on a track to highlight extinct reptiles found at the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument.
Trackways Animation
Las Cruces Museum of Nature and Science Trackways Exhibit Animation
Segesser Hides
NM History Museum, Segesser Hides Interactive http://hides.nmhistorymuseum.org/ The Segesser Hides are paintings on tanned bison hides that depict early Spanish colonial life in the New Mexico. The interactive allows users to zoom in to get a detailed look of the hides and learn more about the unique sections of the paintings. This project was built …
Shifting Boundaries
NM History Museum Shifting Boundaries Interactive This project was built with HTML5, CSS, Javascript and open source Javascript libraries. It uses assets from the original Adobe Flash version of the Shifting Boundaries interactive. Adobe Flash is outdated, proprietary and not supported on modern browsers and devices. By converting from Flash to web programming languages, the …
Weather Lab
Albuquerque Balloon Museum Weather Lab interactive design design by graduate student Eli Menchaca
Explore Aston
NM Roswell Museum & Art Center Explore Aston A beacon based mobile app for exploring the Aston Collection
Little Carlsbad
Carlsbad Museum Little Carlsbad Exhibit built with Museduino Carlsbad Museum and Art Center
Acadia Interactive Rail
Acadia National Park Interactive Rail In this exhibit, visitors compare and contrast sounds of Marsh life and Open Ocean ecosystems. We used Museduino, our own open-source system for building exhibits. The rail is embedded with buttons to trigger over head speakers and LED lights to illuminate the left and right side of the exhibit panel.
Acadia Bird Matching Game
Acadia National Park Bird Matching Game In this exhibit, visitors are invited to match a shorebird’s egg to its image. The egg is embedded with an RFID tag, which when read correctly, triggers the sound of the bird’s call. The wrong egg triggers a “incorrect” sound clip. Each set is stand-alone, so highly motivated visitors …
Museduino
Museduino Kit Museduino is CTDL’s open-source system for exhibits and installations. Museduino boards are printed in Oregon, assembled on-site in Albuquerque, New Mexico. museduino.org
Kinect Baumann Marionettes
NM Museum of Art Kinect Baumann Marionettes documentation site: http://www.riannetrujillo.com/marionettes/
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