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Audience [openFrameworks] - Installation by @chrisoshea and rAndom international (circa 2008) Audience is an installation by rAndom international and Chris O’Shea (circa 2008).

Audience [openFrameworks] - Installation by @chrisoshea and rAndom international (circa 2008)

The installation includes 64 mirror objects, each controlled by 2 servos for pan and tilt. These objects would orientate towards themselves and when someone appeared in the space, they would pause, then all turn to face the person. They would track a visitor around the room, but move on to someone else if they got bored (based on various scoring) or continue to chat between themselves.

The mirrors can be positioned anywhere and any angle, calibrated in a way to always look roughly at the area of a visitors face. The installation aims to reverse the roles of the viewer and the viewed during this in-voluntary interaction. All of the hardware and circuits are custom made by rAndom international. Project Page Credits Concept & Design – rAndom International Hardware – rAndom International Software – Chris O’Shea. Arduino + Servo + openCV Tutorial [#openFrameworks] by Joshua Noble. One of the my favorite things about creativeapplications.net has always been the small tags one can find beneath the name of an application indicating among other things, the technology used to create it.

Arduino + Servo + openCV Tutorial [#openFrameworks] by Joshua Noble

That little nod to the process and to all the work that went into creating the libraries and techniques that an artist or designer uses helps not only contextualize the work but it also helps give recognition to everyone who has contributed their time and expertise to building tools for creative expression in code. Figuring that some of the readers might be interested in learning a little more about these frameworks I’ve put together a quick walk-through of how to connect up two of those tools that one so often sees attached to the names of the projects profiled here: openFrameworks and Arduino. Arduino For this tutorial you’ll need a few things: 1 x Arduino-compatible device 1 x Trossen Servokit 1 x USB cable 1 x Breadboard and wires to connect the Servos to the Arduino. Easy EL Wire Projects.

"Easy EL Wire Projects" gives you the complete step-by-step instructions for 10 different projects to light up your wardrobe.

Easy EL Wire Projects

Easily make your own electroluminescent hat, backpack, costume and much more. All projects come from Instructables.com, are written by our creative community, and contain pictures for each step so you can easily make these yourself. Instructables is the most popular project-sharing community on the Internet. We provide easy publishing tools to enable passionate, creative people like you to share their most innovative projects, recipes, skills, and ideas. Instructables has over 40,000 projects covering all subjects, including crafts, art, electronics, kids, home improvement, pets, outdoors, reuse, bikes, cars, robotics, food, decorating, woodworking, costuming, games, and more.

Laura Khalil Editor, Instructables.com. RFI-DJ: MP3 Playing RFID Thing. The RFI-DJ is a USB device for playing MP3 files from your computer. You have a set of RFID cards, each one with a song name written on it. You choose a card and place it on the RFI-DJ, and your computer will play that song. Its magic! Actually, it's not magic. It uses an Arduino and an ID-12 RFID scanner, and a python script running on your computer. The device is really fun to use, and it makes a great afternoon project. Wait a minute, I think I've seen this before...

Here's a video I made of me playing a song with it (with my cat yelling in the background): How it works: An RFID scanner scans your card. Arduino.