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IxD Lab 2_Dreamstop documentation

Yeah, I worked all the night with a computer close to the crash, but hey I did it (even if quite in late). Now let’s get a big break before restarting to work for other projects: I feel a bit dizzy. You know, staying operative in front of a pc for 24 hours (almost continuously) is not so healty.

Sound excerpt from My red hot car by Squarepusher.

IxD Lab 2_Building Final prototype

This is the video that shows how we bult the final prototype of “Dreamstop”.

IxD Lab 2_Projections attempts

Heres some projection attempts that, me and my team (Dreamstop), did last week, to set up an early prototype of our installation.

Processing Code_Brightness Threshold

The code captures a video from a camera (in this case it’s the webcam), posterizes it in black and white giving to white pixels the highest transparency. Then copies every frame on an array which overalys (acting as a mask) a pre-recorded video. There’s also a version with a selectable threshold.
Durrell Bishop re-wrote completely the Processing code for us. Thank you so much Durrell!
Me and my team weren’t able to find what was going wrong with our initial version of the code. Durrell fixed up everything.

Durrell Bishop and Tom Hulbert are from Luckybite

[This post will be updated soon]

Introduction to Arduino by Tom Hulbert

Here are uploaded the earlier four videos of the first day of workshop by Tom Hulbert about Arduino. He made a little introduction, to the students of the Interactive artefacts prototyping studio course in IUAV, about physical computing with this board and providing general technical informations.

Introducing Arduino:

Sega Activator (training video)

Oh, damn! I totally missed this one when I was a kid. The Sega Activator: an early-90s pseudo-futuristic controller for the Mega Drive (Genesis in the USA) which replaces switches with infra-red beams and lightdiodes. Probably it was just a response to the Power Glove by Nintendo?

Arduino Diecimila_Getting started tutorial

An exaustive tutorial to getting started with Arduino Diecimila:
http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/lesson0.html

There are also other useful tutorials on the same site, check’ em up!

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