Jeff of Snyderphonics dropped in the other day to lazzzor up some silicon gaskets for the Manta. He was beset by a crowd as soon as we noticed what he had. The manta is a 48 pseudo-pressure sensitive interface with two touch sliders across the top. It’s built into a freaking gorgeous wooden box.
Jeff and his cohort use it as a music interface. Me, I’d run my magical mansion of the future off of it.
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You’ve got your Processing in my Arduino! No, You’ve got your Arduino in my Processing!
Come learn the glory that is hooking up real space to code space. We’ll take apart my Spooky Box, learn how it works, and you’ll build your own. We’ll learn about the Serial interface in Processing, and how to use it efficiently to talk to Arduino.
Act now for my Special Holiday Special! Just choose “Starving Student” to get in on the fun for only $25.00!
We headed to Orchard Street on the island last night, planning to check out the Gizmodo Gallery. It was late when we got there and the gates were down. We were just about resigned to pressing our noses to the glass and gazing longingly at the lego death star when we spotted the time traveling DeLorean wedged up to the sidewalk. Josh Haldeman traded it for his Honda. Clearly he made the right choice. We jumped in the machine with every intention of hacking in, but had insufficient time. The fearless owner had to quit the Lower East Side for a game of Extreme Connect Four.
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Learn about the Reware project, see how to easily install GNU/Linux and Pd on your Palm TX, and see some example projects.
We’ve been working since July on making it easy to hack old devices and run new software on them. Coming soon, a image for running Pd, Python, and Lua programs on PDAs, as well as a HOWTO for making Pd patches for 1-5G iPods. The key idea is to turn old PDAs, mobile phones, etc. into something like an Arduino, where you can easily upload your own code to the device.
For more info, check out our Reware dev site
Adam Mayer is a friend of mine and fellow resistor who may be the most prolific person I know. When he decides to do something, he commits totally. Check out one of his previous obsessions documented in the Things video series: the teletype.
Recently he got into gears and gearing and spun that interest into a rad project to make cards with planetary gears embedded in them.
He’s uploaded the plans for the geared card and the geared planetary card to thingiverse so you can make your own!
Adam may be the best kept secret on twitter. If you’re not following him, you should do so now. He’s at http://twitter.com/phooky.
If you like this video, head on over to my blog at brepettis.com/blog where I’m sharing a video every single day for as long as I can stand it!
Edith Kollath is a Resistor who is at the crossroads of art and microcontroller technology. She made the most beautiful books that breathe.
Besides being beautiful objects, this show is also about the TSA. On a trip home to show the books in Germany, the TSA detained her and took the books from her. The story is bizarre and strange and reflects the very weird times we live in today.
Edith is showing the books until December 14th in the damstuhltrager gallery and if you’re in NYC, go see the show and if you collect contemporary art or are just as stunned as I am by their breathing, buy them. (you’ll have the most wonderful breathing bookshelves.)
Here’s a pdf you can download and an earlier article she wrote over on the NYCR blog to read more about her experience
Devon Jones needed a robot to do his bidding and so he made a computer controlled dremel. He found an instructable by Stuart McFarlan and created it using a mix of aluminum stock, an inexpensive wood called MDF, and skate bearings.
It now works so he’s going to be able to use the subtractive process, which means he can take away all the parts of the material that are not his thing, to create whatever he can imagine.
I’m publishing a video everyday. Catch them all over on my blog.
All hail Make Blog! Collin Cunningham wrote a fantastic post about all the places on the inernets to buy all different sizes, shapes and colors of Arduinos, Arduino related boards, Arduino related books, and Arduino kits. Our very own NYCR’s Zach Hoeken’s ‘Danger Shield’ is on the list too. It’s a great collection that you should bookmark for your next projects & purchases or just email it to St. Nick so he knows what you want for the holidays. The Arduino Gift Guide.
Processing 1.0 launched today! Congrats to Casey Reas, Ben Fry and everyone else who has been instrumental on the project. You can get the new, fancy, 1.0 version at http://www.processing.org/download. I was lucky enough to meet with Casey on my last trip out to UCLA and as we chatted about the Processing and the upcoming 1.0 launch he said: ‘You know the best part about launching a 1.0? It means that we get to start working on 2.0’.
