vom 2. bis 10. April 2010
(dh. Ostern und die Woche danach)
Tag des offenen Labors mit Präsentationen:
Samstag 10. April 16h - 22h
bei [ a n y m a ], Route de la Fonderie 8c, Fribourg, Schweiz
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vom 2. bis 10. April 2010
(dh. Ostern und die Woche danach)
Tag des offenen Labors mit Präsentationen:
Samstag 10. April 16h - 22h
bei [ a n y m a ], Route de la Fonderie 8c, Fribourg, Schweiz
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The trackpad on the late MacBooks can track up to 10 or more (!) fingers at once. Fingerpinger is an external object for MaxMSP that we wrote around code from steike.com. It’s an experimental hack… but its fun and its free…
Update: Works with the Magic Trackpad, too!
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TrackPadSynth is a simple but fun example of what you can do with fingerpinger. It’s a standalone version, you don’t need MaxMSP to try it out…
Dank eines Werkbeitrages für Neue Medien des Migros Kulturprozent werden wir unsere Videoinstrumente weiter entwickeln können und vor allem an deren Dokumentation arbeiten.
Das Ziel ist es, alle unsere Instrumente unter Open Source Lizenzen (GPL, Creative Commons..) zu publizieren. Bei allem Bauen, Entwickeln, Ausprobieren, Forschen und Aufführen ist aber das Dokumentieren ein bisschen auf der Strecke geblieben, daher gibt es auf unserer Website auch nur wenig darüber zu finden.
Dank der Unterstützung des Migros Kulturprozent können wir das nun nachholen. Danke.
Mehr wird folgen…
Since my first guide “How to make illuminated buttons” I’ve built quite some controllers with illuminated buttons and I found some improvements I want to share today. The original technique had some downfalls. First of all, the latex from the gloves wears quite quickly, it’s not really reliable for everyday use. It also only holds to the casing and it can come loose if someone presses the buttons too strong. Another problem when building it is to find the correct placing of the holes and the keeping the rubber buttons at the correct distance.
My actual technique addresses these two concerns by:
Here’s some pictures:
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The gnusb is a platform for building USB controllers - like mixers, foot pedals and the like - primarily for use with Max/MSP or pure-data.
By default, the gnusb provides Max/MSP and pure-data patches with:
- 8 analog inputs, with variable smoothing
- 16 digital inputs/outputs
add some sensors, and off you go….
gnusb is open source hardware and software.
For more information visit the project website: gnusb.sourceforge.net
Die Ausstellung “Schamanen der nördlichen Magar - eine Ethnographie in Bildern” im Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich - für welche wir das Projektionssystem entwickelt haben - ist geöffnet vom 4. November 2007 bis zum 16. März 2008.
Die Ausstellung ist der bis auf den heutigen Tag gebräuchlichen schamanischen Praxis der nördlichen Magar in einem abgelegenen Dorf im nepalesischen Himalaya gewidmet. Sie zeigt Photographien, die im Rahmen einer vom Ethnologen Michael Oppitz am Fusse des Dhaulagiri-Massivs durchgeführten mehrjährigen Feldforschung zwischen 1977 und 1984 aufgenommen wurden. Die Bilder führen uns mitten in die alltägliche Welt der nördlichen Magar, lassen uns am Leben und Wirken der Schamanen teilnehmen, zeigen ihre heiligen Handlungen, aber auch das Umfeld ihrer Rituale, die beteiligten Familien, die Architektur und die bedeutungsgeladene Landschaft.
As outlined in the article Programming ATMEL microprocessors on a Mac, installing the AVR toolchain on the Mac can be a long and tedious procedure. Downloading, compiling and installing all the stuff can take up to 6 hours!
For a workshop I gave recently we tried to simply copy over all the binaries in /usr/local/avr/ and it worked.
Now I wrapped the whole thing into a nice installer package, see below.
Installation time: < 5min.
And the best part: you don't even need the Apple Developer Tools anymore (1.85 Gig !)
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Ich freu mich, zu der ersten Homemade Forschungswoche einzuladen:
| Ort: | [ a n y m a ] , Fonderie 8c, 1700 Fribourg |
| Datum: | 25. Mai 2007 - 2. Juni 2007 (Pfingsten + die Woche darauf) |
Keine Workshops für Anfänger, sondern freie Austausch- und Experimentierplatformen für “erfahrene” Homemader.
Ein internationaler Fach-Kongress der Elite der Do-It-Yourself Szene, sozusagen … ;-)
“uDMX - MIDI Interface” is a stand alone Application for Mac OS X. It provides a virtual MIDI-Port to communicate with the uDMX USB DMX Interface from any MIDI capable software like Cubase or Logic, as an alternative for using Max/MSP to directly control the uDMX. It can respond either to MIDI note or control change events and scales the MIDI resolution (0-127) to DMX (0-255).
You can download it here: Download “uDMX - MIDI Interface” (.dmg, 6.6 MB)
A small javascript object providing a simple page-wide context menu that works on the structure of the underlying DOM. A right click on any node element starts an upward traversal of the DOM from the Target up to the document.body element, collecting all elements that have a contextual menu attached to them.
Contextual menu items can be attached, updated or removed dynamically at any time from any element
See the documentation for details and download
Using the uDMX commandline interface and PHP it is fairly easy to build a system to control your lights from a ordinary web browser. In this post I show you how to put a slider on a web page that controls the first channel of your DMX light dimmer. This is not a very useful application, but throw in some more Ajax and a database of your choice, et voilà: A web based lighting desk…
Just in time for our appearance at the “Homemade Festival” in Glarus, I finished the first version of my new “virtual video mixing console”. Version 1.0 had just some buttons, 8 rotary encoders and 8 faders. It was getting of age and I didn’t like to perform with it anymore. So, months of work and about 2000 solder points later, a dream comes true…
USB Interface, 35 Potentiometers with 35 Ledrings, 8 Faders, 6 Microprocessors, expandable…
Read on for the photos:
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This video illustrates the making of a Videobass string. In order to wind the strings, I built a simple machine from parts lying around - some wood and gear wheels from a used laser toner cartridge - driven by an old sewing machine.
Videobass strings are made of a 1.5mm nylon core, wound with 0.1mm resistance (constantan) wire.
I got the nylon from a local fishing shop and the wire from Distrelec (Article No 513861).
First I roughen the nylon a bit with sanding paper (240), so that the constantan wire doesn’t slip.
I then wind the wire very tightly around the nylon. There has to be not the slightest gap, nor any crossings! It’s much easier to get it tight when you hold the wire quite far away. With a little practice it takes about five minutes to wind the string.
Finally the string is polished with very fine sanding paper (600), to even it out. This makes it more comfortable to touch and improves electrical contact with the fingerboard.
The ends are sealed by melting the nylon with a lighter.
A typical string of 60cm has a resistance of about 2kOhm - compared to the resistance of the wire at 62Ohms per meter that’s about 32m of wire per string !
Wir präsentieren das Videomonochord und andere Basteleien…
am Festival Homemade in Solothurn vom 18 bis 27. August 2006.
Im Künstlerhaus: Video und Klanginstallationen unter anderem von
Öffnungszeiten: Di bis So jeweils ab 14 Uhr.
Vernissage: Freitag, 18. August 2006, 19.00 Uhr.
We received today the first batch of 27 boards for the uDMX 1.1
I will soon begin production…
We just finished our first prototype of the uDMX - it seems to work…!
This is a preliminary version of the documentation - work in progress..
See the uDMX Homepage for updates
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How we finally managed to get the AVR toolchain working on the Macintosh…
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Have you ever touched those gummy buttons on an old Sony Betacam recorder? Ever admired this warm glow beneath the play-button? Ever wanted to add some of these to your own do-it-yourself projects, only to find you can’t buy them nowhere?
well here’s a cheap and easy way I found to make them on my own…
UPDATE: You can find a better technique here: http://www.anyma.ch/2008/research/illuminated-buttons-revisited/)
An intuitive interactive documentary movie editing machine based on principles of molecular biology and evolution theory
docReactor is a research/art project currently under development. It will be published as open source and will be displayed first as docReactor1.0://intuiton at the festival “Science et Cité” at Fribourg, Switzerland, may 20-24 2005
docReactor1.0://intuiton will be an experimental documentary, edited entirely by the visitors, on the place of intuition in science and arts
see the project description for more details (currently in french, only)
Publication de LiveCut
Live cut est un outil très simple et intuitif pour le montage multi-caméras (jusqu’à 4 caméras).
Le montage peut être effectué en temps réel, comme dans les logiciels de montage live, en changeant simplement entre 4 sources synchronisées.
The VideoBass is an unique hardware/software-combination for controlling live-visuals. Shaped like a electric bass-guitar, it relies on the guitar-paradigm where, basically speaking, the left hand chooses between a wide variety of possible notes, and the right hand triggers them.
The TactBall is a Human-Computer-Interface designed to control live performances (music / video / light /…).
Invention et fabrication de la première videobasse - un instrument pour jouer des images…
“The VideoBass is an unique hardware/software-combination for controlling live-visuals. Shaped like a electric bass-guitar, it relies on the guitar-paradigm where, basically speaking, the left hand chooses between a wide variety of possible notes, and the right hand triggers them.”
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