Category: BLOG

Linux MX Distro for Workshops

Each time I am giving a course, I have to assure that all software is installed and in running order. Beside this, kids or teachers would need to reinstall everything on their home computer later on. This can be frustrating, if something does not work with the installation procedures. As a consequence I sat down and created this Distro based...

Categories BLOG/WORKSHOP

FoxDot Custom Audio Samples Database “PitchGlitch”

This project results in a creation of a sample database made from audio samples under Creative Common CC0 License. I searched for months to find zero licensed audio samples. The samples are modified and edited by me to match the requirements to be used best with FoxDot. The audio samples are converted to mono in order to reduce space. Furthermore,...

Categories BLOG/CODE/FOXDOT/MUSIC

Event: “10th Birthday Party” by Algorave

Algorave 10th Birthday Party This March in 2022, algorave is ten years old. Lets try to fill a whole day with ten minute live streams, of live coded and other algorithmic performances. Algorave Website BBScar aka PitchGlitch Slot #108 15:50 Mar 20-16:00 Mar 20 PitchGlitch / Germany / BBScar (FoxDot) / Europe/Berlin Video:

Categories BLOG/CODE/EVENT/FOXDOT/MUSIC

Event: “The Longest Night” by Tidal Club

The Longest Night by Tidal Club 40 hours of livestreamed, livecoded audio and visual performances to keep you warm during the Winter Solstice. “The Longest Night” extends the tradition of community inclusiveness by welcoming users of all livecode languages to participate! Claim your slot at https://night.tidalcycles.org/ Our Spot: Cycle #63 10:40 Dec 22-11:00 Dec 22 BBScar (Berlin) & KittyClock (Prague)...

Categories BLOG/CODE/FOXDOT/MUSIC

Chordata Software Package

Chordata Software The repository contains a software package for the open-source Motion Capture System created by Chordata. Furthermore, there are project examples to be used with the basic software "Mover". There is a new utility called "relativity cube", beside the utilities from the Beta version of this MoCap system I mentioned in another post. All of it has been developed...

Categories BLOG/CODE/DIGITAL STAGES/MOTION CAPTURE

Wifi Dongle for collaborative LiveCoding in FoxDot

FoxDotSpot Dongle The FoxDotSpot Dongle is a RaspberryPi Zero W, that runs an offline Wifi Server with a hotspot for users to connect to. Furthermore, you have the option to connect this server to the internet and connect to the OS via ssh. How to use a FoxDotSpot Dongle How to get it started? Just plug the dongle into a...

Categories BLOG/CODE/FOXDOT/RASPBERRY PI

ArduBlockly Development

In order to get this nice version of a Blockly-based coding environment for kids working for the Arduino kit I want to use in my new course I designed, I had to further develop this software. I did not know much about Java and Blockly syntax, however I managed to realize it to a satisfying version. It is basically multi-platform...

Categories BLOG/CODE

LoT >> July 2021 Update

In the past months, the LoT >> Library of Things project moved ahead. The domain remains www.libraryofthings.cc Many changes has been made in order to continue in a better frame for people to be able to participate as Designers, Makers, Professional and Hobbyists alike. Progress in detail Firstly I moved the library database from my own server host to GitLab....

Categories 3D PRINT/BLOG/CNC/CODE/OpenSCAD

CyberDreamer

CyberDreamer The CyberDreamer is a sleeping mask, that will help you to experience lucid dreams. Project link: https://gitlab.com/DigitalStages/cyberdreamer Introduction I bought a remee sleeping mask, which absolutely does not work to support lucid dreaming. It is a device, which only are programmable online with certain timing and light patterns. ! IT DOES NOT REACT ON REM (RAPID EYE MOVEMENTS) THAT...

Categories BLOG/CODE

TempoTapper

TempoTapper TempoTapper is a device, that can change the tempo clock using midi. It has been built to help Live Coders (particularly within FoxDot) to make music with live musicians, who do not want to follow the digital clock of software. 1. Components 1 Arduino Micro (need to be an Arduino that works with MidiUSB) 1 x Piezo 1 x...

Categories BLOG/CODE/FOXDOT/MUSIC

Showreel …-2020

Showreel 2020

Categories BLOG

Utilities Chordata Motion Capture System

Utilities Chordata Chordata Motion is the open source motion capture system. Our goal is taking the world of motion capture to the universe of open and DIY technologies. With this in mind, we designed a system that is flexible enough to be adapted to the needs of any project that may require the capture of human movement in fields as...

Categories 3D PRINT/BLOG/MOTION CAPTURE

VR Hubs Space “The Lively Coder”

TheLivelyCoder This are the project files for the Virtual Reality Club "The Lively Coder", which is published in Mozilla Hubs. The room is made for Live Coding Events, in which the screens shows visualizations and streams of the code. Source files: https://gitlab.com/iShapeNoise/thelivelycoder

Categories BLOG/VIRTUAL REALITY

Eulerroom Equinox 2020 Party

Eulerroom Equinox 2020 Party A 72 hours live streamed, algorithmic event around the world An equinox is a day when the whole world gets 12 hours of sunlight. The March equinox marks the beginning of autumn in the southern hemisphere and spring in the northern hemisphere. For March Equinox 2020 we will celebrate sixteen years of the TOPLAP live coding...

Categories BLOG/CODE/EVENT/FOXDOT/MUSIC

VizArt – Visual Art Projects for FoxDot

VizArt – Visual Art for FoxDot This project produces visualizations for LiveCoding Music environments, in particular FoxDot. FoxDot is a Python programming environment that provides a fast and user-friendly abstraction to SuperCollider. It also comes with its own IDE, which means it can be used straight out of the box; all you need is Python and SuperCollider and you’re ready...

Categories BLOG/CODE/FOXDOT

www.libraryofthings.cc webserver

www.libraryofthings.cc webserver LoT, or Library of Things is a project that offers open-source designs of exterior, interior and house hold items. Participants can download, modify and upload designs of CNC Cutouts and 3D prints under Creative Commons license cc-by-sa 4.0 to a repository on a Gitea-based web server. The main format is .scad, script-based parametric 3d designs programmed in OpenSCAD....

Categories 3D PRINT/BLOG/CODE/OpenSCAD/RASPBERRY PI

OHLOOM v2 – OpenSCAD Designs for an open-hardware loom

OHLOOM v2 – Re-design This open-hardware loom is a re-designed version of https://www.instructables.com/id/OHLOOM-an-Open-Hardware-Loom/, that can be produced with a CNC Router and a 3D printer First, I transferred all previous designs into parametric designs via OpenSCAD, and added extra designs to be able to create all building parts by using a CNC Router and 3D printer only. Next, I added...

Categories 3D PRINT/BLOG/CODE/OpenSCAD

Open Source Ecology Germany: Intros and Wallpapers

Open Source Ecology Germany: Intros and Wallpapers In my time with OSEG I built a green screen, installed a video studio computer and got everything ready for a video blog stream and interview space. Furthermore, I created wallpapers for the computer and Intro sequences for the video blog. OSEG Wallpapers made in Blender 3D Intro Sequences for OSEG Video Blog

Categories ANIMATION >> FILM/BLENDER 3D/BLOG

Virtual Reality Concept Design Preview for LED Sculpture

SPRING ENTRANCE This real-time visualization has been created to show a concept design of a LED sculpture in its planned environment. The east spring entrance of this shopping center planned to be build in Kiev has a wide open space in the middle of the entry hall. The managers of this shopping center project asked for a projection installation to...

Categories BLOG/CGI RENDER/CODE/VIRTUAL REALITY

Pareidolia

Anthropocentric reflections in Nature … A psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists. Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the man in the moon, the moon rabbit, and hidden messages within recorded music played in reverse or...

Categories BLOG/PHOTOGRAPHY

3 Virtual Stages for AR live performance dance

Stages for AR live performance dance Dr. Paul Golz is the Course Leader and Senior Lecturer for Dance and Applied Practice, Physical Education and Dance at University of Worcester. Three virtual stages I designed and modeled in 2013 has been used by Ephemeris Dance to experiment in an attempt to create an augmenting live performance dance through mobile technology. Childhood’s...

Categories AUGMENTED REALITY/BLENDER 3D/BLOG