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Workshop: Starting with Sensors and Interaction @ ACADIA conference

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:12:32 +0000

http://www.acadia.org/acadia2010/workshops

Starting with Sensors and Interaction
Instructor: Hans-Christoph Steiner (hans[at]eds.org), Interaction Designer and Artist; Pd, Arduino, and Firmata Developer
Duration: 1 Day
Date: Wednesday, 20th (10am-5pm) of October of 2010
Theme: Using Pd and Arduino to create real-time interaction

The combination of sensors and computers provide myriad opportunities for creating interactions. This workshop will introduce how to use computers and sensors to generate real-time interaction in the physical world with light and movement. Pd (aka Pure Data) will be introduced as a simple programming enviroment for real-time interaction. Arduinos running Firmata software will be used to interface to the sensors, electronics, servos, etc. This workshop will be a combination of short lectures, hands-on instruction, and unstructured time to work on learning and exploring with support of the instructor. While Pd is fairly easy to learn and designed for artists, familiarity with basic computer programming will be very beneficial. You will be able to apply the concepts learned in this course to a wide range of programming environments where Arduino / Firmata is supported, including Flash, Processing, and more.

We have the required electronics tools at the venue but your encouraged to make arrangements for purchasing the following kit: http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=17&products_id=170Â. Students are also encouraged to bring additional hardware and/or tools they are interested in working with. Bring DMX lighting, LEDs, projectors, etc. to experiment with real-time lighting control. Bring servos or motor controllers to experiment with motion. Bring accelerometers, rotary sensors; flex sensors, etc. to experiment with sensing motion. Bring basic architecture model making supplies to build a model to work with. We also recommend that you bring any electronics equipment you may have including a soldering iron and solder, wire strippers, helping hands, digital multimeter, etc.
Materials required: Bring your own laptop.

Software: Pd-extended (http://puredata.info/downloads) and Arduino (http://arduino.cc), both free software, download and install before arriving, we can help troubleshoot any problems that arise.
Available Seats: 12 students/ Cost: $150
Location: NYC Resistor, 87 3rd Ave, 4th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, nycresistor.com

http://puredata.info/docs/workshops/AcadiaSensorsInteraction

Call for Works: Make It Yourself

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:53:27 +0000

Cybersonica with Openlab Workshops and Manchester Art Gallery present:
Make It Yourself

www.cybersonica.org
http://openlabworkshops.org
CALL FOR EXISTING WORKS

Make It Yourself is an exhibition of inventive Arduino and DIY electronic-circuitry projects to accompany the major solo exhibition Recorders by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at Manchester Art Gallery between 18 September 2010 and 30 January 2011.

A rapidly expanding community of people worldwide is taking advantage of new, cheaper technology and a growing pool of shared knowledge to make things for themselves – useful things, clever things, silly things, unique things. Make It Yourself is a ‘small but perfectly formed’ show of a handpicked half-dozen of these hand-made devices.

We are now accepting submissions of existing Arduino and DIY electronic-circuitry projects from artists, hobbyists, hackers, DIY musicians and anyone interested in making things for themselves wishing to exhibit their work as part of Make It Yourself.

We are looking for pieces that reveal and demonstrate:

* unique devices born out of imagination or happy accident
* how everyday artifacts actually work
* custom-made tools born out of a frustration that nothing else quite does the job
* modified consumer products that now do something their manufacturers never conceived of

Overall we are looking for inventive projects that demonstrate a wide range of function and form, simplicity and complexity, humour and intent.

We expect creators of selected works to provide a project ‘info pack’ of design schematics, component lists, code and step-by-step assembly instructions.

Deadline
Monday, 13 September 2010.

Notification
Friday 17 September 2010.

Entry forms
Download full details, entry forms and terms as a PDF here

Arduino gets lighter and flexible

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:06:48 +0000

Arduino gets flexible, yes, indeed. Just read this news through Dorbot ALBA mailing list, so I thought to share the few info I found through this article on MAKE magazine.
What you see in the picture is an experimentation of an Arduino-compatible board on flexible printed circuit (FPC) material, developed in this same moment by the folks at Seeed Studio.

The material insulating the circuit is very similar to the traditional one, except for his flexibility. This means you would be able to bend and change the shape of your Arduino board.
You can view a complete list of feature at Seeed Studio website.
This is not a final product, folks are working on the production of few prototypes to give out to some lucky, want-absolutely-to-try-that guys who will propose interesting usage of the new hardware… well, it doesn’t look so hard anymore.

Open Source Hardware User Group meeting #3

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:06:54 +0000

via Openlab list

:: Open Source Hardware User Group meeting #3 ::
:: Thursday 1st July 2010, London SW1 ::

For the third Open Source Hardware User Group meeting we’ll be asking the question “what factors contribute to the success of an open source hardware project?”, and using Arduino and derivatives LilyPad Arduino and the concurrency.cc board as the basis for the discussion.

There will be presentations on:

- Current Cost Bridge – an Arduino based, hackable consumer device

The Current Cost Bridge was developed using the open-source Arduino platform. The reason for using Arduino, was to speed up the development process of the bridge, allowing for fast prototyping and producing a hackable device.

http://www.currentcost.com/product-bridge.html

- Concurrency.cc – parallel programming for makers and artists

The concurrency.cc project describes itself as “a group of educators and researchers exploring the development of tools that make parallel programming more accessible to more people. Our hope is that concurrency.cc will serve the community of developers surrounding parallel and concurrent languages on the Arduino and other low-cost embedded platforms.”

http://concurrency.cc/

- LilyPad – an Arduino based platform for wearables and e-textiles

The LilyPad Arduino is a microcontroller, plus a set of sewable electronic components designed so they can be put together to create interactive wearables or textiles based artworks. There is quite a range of components such as LEDS, sensors, buzzer, accelerometer and more that can be connected with conductive thread. The board is based on the ATmega168V/328Vand was designed and developed by Leah Buechley and SparkFun Electronics.