I immediately found an obstruction in that the Kinect’s depth data, when rendered directly as a point cloud or mesh in Jitter, is seriously distorted because of the depth sensing method, lens distortion and the camera perspective. For the depth data to be useful to me I have to undistort it so that it renders in a perspective correct way (eg. floor and ceiling parallel, walls perpendicular to floor, etc). […]

Thank you Dieter for sharing!

These portable speakers are made from laser-cut wood, fabric, veneer, and electronics. They are powered by three AAA batteries and compatible with any standard audio jack (e.g. on an iPhone, iPod, or laptop).

The speakers are an experiment in open-source hardware applied to consumer electronics. By making their original design files freely available online, in a way that’s easy for others to modify, I hope to encourage people to make and modify them. In particular, I’d love to see changes or additions that I didn’t think about and to have those changes shared publicly for others to use or continue to modify. The speakers have been designed to be relatively simple and cheap in the hopes of facilitating their production by others.

Here to reach out that.

I’ve decided to open source my fairly large collection of Javascript for Max code…

Thank you Tom!!

Thanks to a snappy and totally free GUI, moltosenso Network Manager™ IRON is able to grant:
get/set of the parameters of Digi International^® modules plugged to the PC, both in API and AT mode;
get/set of the parameters of Digi International^® modules remotely addressable;
an effective graphic test for RSSI parameter, especially tailored for XBEE™ modules;
firmware upload (local and – where available – remote) for many supported Digi International^®modules.

The book “Prototyping Interfaces – Interactive Sketches with VVVV” covers within 280 pages the applied handling of interactive sketches with the visual programming language VVVV. It is divided into two main chapters, a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part concerns the definition and the meaning of the term “prototype” in the designprocess. The practical part of the book branches the basics of the visual programming language VVVV and how to control different electronic components with Arduino and VVVV. Beginning from the use of different sensors and actuators to modern tracking technologies like the xBox Kinect, different examples are explained within a wide range of tutorials.
Additional to the book a website is launched within the user finds the patches for every single example described in the book. Also the website provides technical support and a playground which can be used to upload and share private projects.
“Prototyping Interfaces” is addressed to designstudents, interactiondesigners and media artists.

rePatcher is an Arduino shield that allows you to “repatch” your Max/MSP or Pure Data patches with a 6 x 6 patchbay matrix. It also has 6 general purpose control knobs for modifying parameters in your patch. Since it does all of this over USB, it can be hacked to work with any other program that can accept a serial stream.

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Versum is a realtime virtual 3D world that invites both the audience and the composer to look at the music and listen to the visuals.

This virtual world is seen and heard from the viewpoint of a moving virtual camera with virtual microphones attached. This camera, controlled in realtime by means of a joystick (or any other kind of controller) moves through space, similar to how first person shooter games work. Within this space, I place objects that can be both seen and heard, and like in reality, the closer the camera is to them, the louder you hear them. So when the camera moves past several visual objects, you simultaneously hear several sounds fading in and out. Consequently, the way the camera travels past them actually causes melodies and compositional structures to be seen and heard.

The visual position of each object coincides with the panning of it’s sound: objects to the right of the camera will also be heard on the right, and those behind the camera will be heard from behind in case a surround speaker setup is used. This principle also applies to the Z-axis, meaning that sounds can be heard coming from above and below if the speaker setup supports it […]

Sviluppato con Max, Jitter e Processing.

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