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TEDxKids Brussels 2011
Last week (June 1st) the gang at TWSU (Technology Will Save Us) and I took two groups of about twenty 10-yr-olds through a basic soldering workshop as part of TEDxKids Brussels 2011 This was both one of the most tiring and most inspiring workshops I’ve ever taught, with the added bonus that directly afterwards we gave…
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New ARToolkitPlus for Cinder Release
Just wanted to announce that I’ve updated the ARToolKit block to use much better methods for detecting and loading patterns and also integrating proper 3D positioning, as people have asked for. The newest version should be here: http://code.google.com/p/artoolkitplus-for-cinder/downloads/list
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oops
oops Originally uploaded by da mad pixelist This is why you should never trust the Internets. This is also how I blew out my only phototransistor and IR LED (from RadioShack! 2002! If it wasn’t blown out from sitting in the sun for 8 years, already)
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ARToolkitPlus Cinderblock released
I’ve finally had a moment to release this (much better) version of ARToolkitPlus for Cinder, for both Windows and OS X. Get it here: http://code.google.com/p/artoolkitplus-for-cinder/
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Processing Minimal Scenegraph
I’ve been thinking recently about Processing and animation. One of the really nice things about it is that it lets you build up visuals from the ground up, from fairly minimal amounts of code and basic shapes. Contrast this with Flash (ActionScript 3.0) where immediately you are using complex objects with a display hierarchy built-in.…
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Tracking Multiple Different AR Markers
Yes that’s right… multiple marker tracking in ARToolKitPlus on Cinder! And, fully configurable, using files loaded at runtime, on WINDOWS and OS X. Dear God. It wasn’t easy… the documentation is like wading through a river of feces and trying to pick out the proper bit of corn. (You’re welcome for that image, enjoy your…
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ARToolKitPlus in Cinder
UPDATE: THERE IS NOW A BETTER VERSION HERE Well, there you go. I decided not to use OpenFrameworks for my project, after all. I think Cinder looks more promising. So, I spent a few hours today getting to know Cinder, and porting the ARToolKitPlus example to it. This is my first attempt at a…
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ARToolKitPlus in OpenFrameworks
I’ve been working on an interesting project for early 2011 using augmented reality (AR) and Animata (from Kitchen Budapest). I’ve looked at using Processing for it, and Flash, but nothing really speaks to me as far as speed and reliability and flexibility of development. So I looked into OpenFrameworks and ARToolKitPlus, which was recommended to…
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Winter Particles
Happy Holidays! It’s been ages since I posted anything, mostly because I’ve been so busy teaching at UCA Farnham and Openlab Workshops. Here’s a little something for the holidays. The code is below, and the source image was courtesy of Jan Tik on Flickr.
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Using the Output Plug to Drive a Solenoid
Output plug: http://cafe.jeelabs.net/lab/op1/#index3h1 JeeNode v5: http://talk.jeelabs.net/topic/207 “To drive a small lamp or motor, you connect it between COM and the output pin(s), and you connect the power supply between COM and GND. You can probably find many examples when googling for details regarding the ULN2803 chip on that board.”