Lately, I’ve been working with artist Ric Carvalho on an interesting collaborative project, which we’re exhibiting at the Kinetica Art Fair 2010.
It’s entitled “Global Warming”, and involves urination, OpenGL, and Java. More info to come soon.
Archive for the ‘arduino’ Category
Modelling the PeeVector
Friday, January 29th, 2010Flash Arduino workshop
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008This is a video from the Flash / Arduino workshop I led for tinker.it last month. This is me demoing my flash based RFID reader – the hardware drivers are all written in flash, and should be totally platform independent. I really like the idea of writing hardware drivers in Flash, and it’s something I plan on exploring further over the coming months. Obviously there are limitations as to what can realistically be achieved, but I think it’s a lot more satisfying to be able to, say, interface directly with a wiimote via a hardware connection and a serial port than using something like glovePIE. Also, it opens up all kinds of new creative areas which were previously the domain of the hardcore assembly level coder.
Anyway, here’s the video. Basically, flash is controlling the hardware, then reading back the 4 byte unique ID of the standard, publicly available Oyster card, and rendering it as a colour and rotation value. I think this has a lot of potential for further development and will be working on other ways to do cool stuff with this technology.
London Flash Platform User Group talk on Arduino
Thursday, March 13th, 2008In other news, I’m also talking at the LFPUG about messing around with Arduino – check out the event page here. It’s free – and as it’s in Cosmo Bar, you can get progressively more drunk as the evening progresses!
Flash + Arduino workshop
Thursday, March 13th, 2008In April, I’m leading a workshop with the Arduino folks on physical computing wih flash and arduino – a neat microcontroller board that lets you connect switches, sensors, motors, lights – anything electronic, really – to flash.
The event page is here.
“Lead by Alias Cummins and assisted by Brock Craft, this workshop is aimed at people who are comfortable with Flash, and want to start experimenting/working with Arduino, but have little or no experience of physical computing. The workshop will focus on getting them through the first few steps, which are usually the most difficult, and give them the tools and knowledge to continue learning on their own.
First, you will quickly cover the basics of getting your Arduino connected up and writing simple programs and finally getting Flash to talk to an integrated circuit via Arduino. All the while you will be approaching this from a flash perspective, with our primary development language being ActionScript 3.
What do I need to bring?
- A laptop
NB: Prior Knowledge of electronics is not necessary to attend this workshop but you MUST have prior knowledge of Flash.
What we will provide- The beginners Arduino kit which you can take away with you after the workshop.
When?
April 5- 6th 2008
From 10am to 6pm”