Generalist vs Specialist

I had a talk with the director of Sidekick Studios.
The chat made me think about generalists and specialists.

For me, designers are generalists. They research, think, and come up with ideas.
These ideas are discussed and passed over to specialists in order to realise them.

I think I'm a designer who always long for being a specialist.
What I do at Sidekick is pretty much about bridge specialist and designers.
I discuss ideas, and visualise it by drawing, rendering, and rapid prototyping. Then pass them over to specialists to
produce them in a proper industrial way.

I love prototyping because of the fact that we can discuss ideas forever, but these prototypes clarify actual issues, and at the same time, develop or even expand ideas.

When it comes to taking a job, however, there are a binary perception.
Designer, or Specialist. There seems to be nothing in between them.

Twitter_LED project

Since I'm interested in connecting the internet with physical objects. I want to figure out the way to on/off a LED by
a certain kind of twitter's comment. (like "on" for turn on a LED.)

This is probably easy, for others, but since I'm new to Arduino. I'll start with basic stuffs ( like serial.read()).

And this is what I've done today;
On/Off a LED, by typing a word "d".


But in this program, Arduino only reacts to one letter, not a word(a sequence of letters).
In the next step, I'll try to how to get Arduino react to a word.

Sidekick Table, 2001

Made a film for Sidekick Studios in London, just to show off their amazing massive 12 seater table with random open drawers.
Switch the button, then open the drawers randomly.

And obviously, this is represented in Kubrick's style.

http://vimeo.com/13189496

This is me, director's cut. Yes.
But the formal one is on their website.

http://sidekickstudios.net/blog/

Enjoy.