I am taking what may be my favorite class yet at ITP. My intention is to learn the basics of code so that I have the know-how and confidence to take on other languages and to have fun with it!
The class is being taught by Amit Pitaru and the class home page is here [...]

I’ve just started taking Code and Me. For our first assignment, we are to choose a project we are most proud of. I choose to show my first video documentary. It’s called “Andrew and His Girls” and is about the relationship my friend Andrew had with his 4 pet lab rats, [...]

Hans Steiner, God of PD/USB and a darn nice guy, has released PDuino. In his words:

“Here’s the first test release of Pduino, a Pd firmware for Arduinoand a matching Pd object, [arduino]. This allows you get data from the digital and analog inputs, and send data to the PWM and digital outputs. It also allows you to change the digital pins from input, output, or PWM. And you can choose how many analog inputs and turn on/off digital input.

“Keep in mind its a test release, the only thing I am not sure about right now is digitalInput, everything else seems to work fine. In the future, I’d like to figure out how to add the pulseIn feature.

“This firmware would work well with Processing, Max/MSP, Flash, whatever. Then the Arduino becomes a dead simple, cheap sensor box for the newbies, but still open for playing later.”

Anyone who read my post on the recently launched and dead in the water “interactive” Tunebooks should already have an idea of my feelings towards PDF’s. They are clunky, frustratingly non-interactive and generally inaccessible, with a much higher barrier to entry than the average web page. For all of Adobe’s praise I much prefer opening [...]

12 days ago we stumbled across deserts made of concrete. My hands stunk of lamb oil you rubbed through the milky strands of your auburn hair. I loved how you loved me when you were nineteen. The devilish glare in my rear view mirror as we hit 120 somew…

So used and abused! No worries, I’m here now to explain exactly what the fuck has been going on here lately, and why all the random badges, links and code.
Things have started getting really exciting with the ION guys, known outside my small circle as Jon and Nate of Open Network Televsion. We’ve got [...]

Unfortunately, I don’t have any new videos to try out Shawn Van Every’s new plug-in, so I’ll post an oldy but a goody. (This is Episode two of the, thankfully, short-lived “I Hate UPS” series. Feel free to leave comments- much like our MovieNite “virtual screening room” (though ours was done in Flash) they will [...]

. . . is a bit of what I would like to be doing right now. Instead? I am working a hundred hours a week in the midst of what is about seven different projects. As it is I work until nine or ten then go out until two, wake up at seven and do it again. L…

This program reads a serial string from a GPS reader. It parses the sentence and returns latitude and longitude.

It’s also a simple example of how to read an ASCII-formatted, comma-delimited serial protocol.