My collaborative work Smoke and Hot Air with Robin Mandel is now on display in the show titled FEEDFORWARD, at Laboral: Centro the Arte y Creation Industrial in Gijon, Spain.

The show was curated by Steve Dietz and Christina Paul; the form has posted a number of images of the show on Flickr, with a separate album for the opening night.

During August 3-7, 2009, Robin Mandel and I taught a week-long intensive workshop on physical computing at Anderson Ranch. The workshop was titled Physical to Digital (see Anderson's flier).

I created a course blog that includes arduino code, references for working with kinetics as well as videos of the students final projects.

Working with Motors:

1. Our Simple Voltage Amplification Circuit
2. Graphical Resistance Calculator
3. Transistor and Diode basics
4. Our TIP122 voltage amplifier

More interfaces:

Arduino

Arduino Shields

Wiring

Pic microcontroller

Gluion

Phidgets

CUI

Excellent stepper motor:
Stepper Motor

Stepper Driver

Source for premade driver boards:
Futurlec Electronics (Thailand)

I will spend Oct. 3 to 16 in Ghent, Belgium, participating in the 2008 Almost Cinema Festival. The plan is to show two sculptural works, and give a with my man David Bithell.

I've been working on some software and electronics for Robin Mandel in order to realize his Storm. First I made a Arduino-MIDI-output-translator application that converted MIDI out of GarangeBand to on and offs on the Arduino's Digital Outputs. Then I integrated the MIDI playback into the translator application.

ArduinoBt, talking to Max/MSP, using SimpleMessageingSystem.

Had many many troubles with this "programmer not responding" bull shit, but got it going eventually... still doesn't exactly stay up for hours.

Demonstration of a little stand alone application for translating MIDI to an Arduino's digital outputs.

The editable MaxMSP patch (and many more things) are a part of aLib. You will find the patch in the "for controllers" folder, within the "Arduino" section.

This application uses
-SimpleMessageSystem library for the Arduino platform.