WEDNESDAY 12TH DECEMBER 2007 - RONA INNES

Today Rona Innes (http://www.moshimachine.com/) came in to talk to us about physical computing, something that mike blow touched upon in the early stages of this project.

We were shown actual hardware, wires and connections which can be and have been used for interactive projects.

We were also introduced to the following book:

Dan O sullivan and Tom Lgoe - 'Physical Computing' - Sensing & controlling the physical world with computers.

This book is extremely useful if we want to pursue anything to do with connections, wires and alternative ways of creating interaction (not just screen based).

Also, many links to various physical computing issues are available on the student shared space, Rona has kindly put them up for us!

LINKS FROM RONA INNES

PHYSICAL COMPUTING

http://wiring.org.co/ Wiring boards
http://processing.org/ Processing
http://www.arduino.cc/ Arduino boards
http://www.nastypixel.com/instantsoup Flash Physical Computing

CONTROLLING FLASH WITH A WIIMOTE

Windows
http://wiiflash.bytearray.org/?p=52

Mac
http://screenfashion.org/releases/motedaemon/

WEBCAM INPUT

http://www.setpixel.com/ -digital art project using webcams

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/webcam_motion.html -good starting point, Adobe webcam capture tutorial

http://www.neuroproductions.be/portfolio/misc/webcam_tutorial - good starting point - Flash webcam games

MICROPHONE

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/microphone.htm -controlling Flash animations using the microphone

http://imm.sheridanc.on.ca/imm2004/chin/tutorial/ -blowing grass

http://www.nastypixel.com/prototype/?page_id=73 -webcam motion detection
http://www.nastypixel.com/prototype/?page_id=86 -Gesture controlling Google Earth

http://gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/08/flash_8_webcam.html -snowstorm & game etc

http://members.westnet.com.au/lmwan/projects.html - Wan's webcam experiments

http://www.protozoo.com/?p=179 - generate and pop bubbles

http://www.discombo.co.uk/cam-experiments.htm - cupid game etc


http://www.webcamtastic.com/ -webcam goo


http://www.extendedreality.com/webcam_games_info.html - eyetoys type games - Eyekanoid etc
http://cam.playdo.com/default.htm

NOT GETTING A WEBCAM INPUT?

This issue is most common for systems with several video drivers. After making sure that you have a working webcam plugged into your computer, try this:

1. Right click on the flash application.
2. Click on 'Settings...'.
3. Click on the tab with the camera icon.
4. Choose the appropriate camera driver.

For mac users, your choice would likely be 'USB Video Class Video' or 'IIDC FireWire Video'.

FLASH VIDEO BASICS

http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary817.html

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00001942.html _bitmap data

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/fla8at_cameraobj/ -making a video box