I am Thomas Langerak and I am an exchange student from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Currently I enrolled in the design sophomore class. I like the focus at tangible interactions and how they can influence the virtual world. In programming my experience is in Arduino, Processing and the getting from concepts to hardware.

You can find me on twitter: https://twitter.com/LangerakT
You can also find me on GitHub: https://github.com/tlangerak
Next to this I have a portfolio online at: www.thomaslangerak.nl

I the past I have done several projects using software. Most interesting for this class is probably a project for a second world war memorial organization in Eindhoven. For this organization we made a light artifact consisting out of 3200 LEDs which we could control in group of 10. All of the LEDs are soldered by the community of Eindhoven. This light artifact tells the story of Eindhoven during the second world war. The device is controlled by several Arduino’s and draws 60 Amperes. Using long chains of multiplexers (in combination with transistors) we are able to control all the LEDs.
This project was made by possible by:
De lichtjesroute
DDW 2013
Citizens of Eindhoven
Dennis Rietveld
Pepijn Verburg
Geert van den Boogaart
Joep Elderman
Linnea Groot
Kim Sauvé