Well, work is continuing on my electromechanical computer project. I now have a sort-of-working prototype of my clunky punch-card reader. Hopefully something will be working in time for the interactive show this year =) Enjoy!
Come learn the basics of iPhone and iPad development! This 3-hour class will introduce you to the high-level concepts of the iOS SDK, the Objective-C language, the Xcode IDE including Interface Builder and the iOS build system, MVC using UIKit, Apple’s most common and useful frameworks, networking using web services, and much more! This class is offered April 28 and is taught by Resistor members Chris Beauvois and Jon Santiago.
Sign up at Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2837754801
Last call on projects for The Interactive Show. We have a couple of spots left, so if you want to show off your stuff contact us. This year’s event is shaping up to be the best yet. The cheap tickets are nearly sold out, so grab yours now!
OSHWA will be a non-profit organization (status pending) working to spread the love of open source hardware. We’re still deep in the process of working out all the details, but please bookmark oshwa.org, and check back there for upcoming news.
OSHWA’s first project is a survey, “to better understand the Open Source Hardware community.” Catarina Mota has lead this project and created a survey along with David Mellis and John De Cristofaro. The aggregate and anonymous results will be made publicly available in May. If you’re involved with the OSHW community, we’d invite you to take the survey.
For today’s #hackfriday at NYC Resistor a bunch of us were inspired by Junior and ScribbleJ‘s 3D printing projects and experimented with UV curing resin using a DLP projector.
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Last November, johngineer proposed #hackfriday, a day for hackerspaces to work on projects. Tomorrow is a holiday from work for many of us, so a bunch of will be hacking away at NYC Resistor. What projects will you work on this long weekend?
First person to correctly guess what this is in the comments gets a free ticket to our upcoming Interactive show on May 19th!
Don’t forget, we’re taking submissions for interactive art pieces in the show now! The theme is “physical meets digital” – so we’ll be extra happy to hear about interactive art that doesn’t make use of screens or projectors, but all submissions are welcome!
Email submissions to [email protected]
Save the date: May 19th, 2012. Tickets are officially on sale and project submissions are starting to roll-in. Come see a 16-foot LED dome, collaborative art using your smartphone, and I think I heard something about a mechanical water-based Scorched Earth game.
Have something small or large you want to show off at the show? Let us know!
The piano box is a (somewhat polyphonic) paper toy synthesizer with 12 keys, each triggering a tone and an LED. The keys are a set of capacitive sensors, made of copper tape, controlled by an Arduino Mega running the CapSense and Tone libraries. The code for this project, written by Will Byrd and Catarina Mota, can be downloaded here. Please note that the current version of the Tone library has some problems on Arduino 1.0. so it’s best to use version 23 or earlier.
The libraries used are available here:
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/CapSense
http://code.google.com/p/rogue-code/wiki/ToneLibraryDocumentation
I just finished Pentametron: a twitter bot that sifts through about 5 million tweets a day, collecting just the ones that happen to be in iambic pentameter. The result is a sort of collective nonsense poem from the internet’s endless flows of language. You can follow Pentametron in realtime on twitter – @pentametron – or read the collected tweets in sonnet form at pentametron.com, updated several times per hour.
Pentametron is written in PHP and uses @fennb’s Phirehose library to access twitter’s streaming API at a rate of 40-60 tweets per second.