[Processing] Great project for all interested

einshteen

Hi,

There's been a lot of interest in Processing in the space, and the fusion of art and technology in general.

There's a local staff artist (Paul) who is very interested in collaborating on a project that would use motion detection to track the position of the staff and to create a live digital show on a projector.

This is a perfect project for a Processing group.

I'm interested in getting a regular weekly meetup going to kick this off and see what we can do, who's in?


Edit: This is him by the way!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehncOlLujM0

ellie_rep

Sounds like a cool project, I'd be up for a weekly thing on processing, defo

einshteen

There's a few more of us interested I'm sure. I'll get in touch with people when this whole hackerspace week business is over.

Inspector Gadget

I'm not very au fait with processing, but this sounds genuinely interesting, count me in!

Domhnall.

KylieWyley

Sounds good


Trying to get my head around OpenCV at the mo.

KylieWyley

http://createdigitalmotion.com/ <-- pretty neat stuff

BARCUSI

Count me in for the weekly processing meet up thingy for sure! Great starter project btw and a chance to look at OpenCV

amonter5

So the first meetup is tomorrow, Thursday at 4pm in the hackerspace, and then we'll continue to meet up on Thursdays at 6pm.

Looking forward to it!

ColumBolum

Interested in looking at the visual management so this may be the guinea pig project!

kevflanagan

from - http://091labs.com/2010/08/processing-and-arduino-meetup/

Thursday 26th at 4pm is the first Processing and Arduino meetup at
091Labs Galway. From Thursday 2nd September on we will be meeting
regularly once a week at 6pm in the space.
For starters we will be following the O'Reilly Online course
'Processing and Arduino in Tandem'
Creating Your Own Digital Art Tools

Starting Tuesday 31st 11pm GMT O'Reilly will stream the course which
you can follow for free online, quick go sign up
http://training.oreilly.com/arduino/, but it you cant make it to every
class we have pooled together to download the course video which we
will be following week by week 6pm every Thursday at 091Labs.

So What is Processing?
from - http://processing.org/about/
Processing is a programming language, development environment, and
online community that since 2001 has promoted software literacy within
the visual arts. Initially created to serve as a software sketchbook
and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual
context, Processing quickly developed into a tool for creating
finished professional work as well.

* Just check out all the crazy fun stuff people are doing with this at
http://processing.org/exhibition/ *

What is Arduino?
from - http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction
"It's an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple
microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing
software for the board.
Arduino can be used to develop interactive objects, taking inputs from
a variety of switches or sensors, and controlling a variety of lights,
motors, and other physical outputs. Arduino projects can be
stand-alone, or they can be communicate with software running on your
computer"

Put them together and you get really great interactive art works and
installations.

But first you will need to get yourself some materials
the list can be found here http://training.oreilly.com/arduino/
We are currently looking into getting these bits and pieces together
from local suppliers details of which we will add to the wiki asap.

As the weeks go by we will also build a resource of documentation and
links on the Wiki.
http://091labs.com/wiki/?id=processing_and_arduino_meetup

Looking forward to seeing you there

Kevin

TheCosmicFrog

Paul's a very interesting guy!

It should be cool to see what people come up with. And sure heck, I might give it a lash if I'm available!