Kinect Hacking At The July Patching Circle

Kinect

This Sunday, July 24, from 2-5 pm, the July meeting of the pd-la patching circle will be held at CRASHspace (10526 Venice Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232).

We’ll have a Microsoft Kinect and will be making it work with Pd, using OSCeleton.

Open and free to all (donations to support CRASHspace are welcome) – come and bring your Pure Data or Max/MSP project to work on.

The pd-la Patching Circle is an informal gathering of anyone who is interested in patching languages (Pure Data, Max/MSP/Jitter, etc.). Beginners and experienced patchers welcome. Open to everyone – work on personal or professional projects, school work, or just patch quietly to yourself, in a room full of other people patching patches and helping other people patch.

June Patching Circle At CRASHspace Sunday

The next meeting of the pd-la patching circle will be this Sunday, June 26th at 2 pm at CRASHspace (10526 Venice Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232).

Open and free to all (donations to support CRASHspace are welcome) – come and bring your Pure Data or Max/MSP project to work on.

The pd-la Patching Circle is an informal gathering of anyone who is interested in patching languages (Pure Data, Max/MSP/Jitter, etc.). Beginners and experienced patchers welcome. Open to everyone – work on personal or professional projects, school work, or just patch quietly to yourself, in a room full of other people patching patches and helping other people patch.

The meetings are held at CRASHspace (10526 Venice Blvd, Culver City CA 90232).

Patching Circle This Sunday at CRASHspace

The next meeting of the pd-la patching circle will be this Sunday, May 29th at 2 pm at CRASHspace (10526 Venice Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232).

Open and free to all (donations to support CRASHspace are welcome) – come and bring your Pure Data or Max/MSP project to work on.

The pd-la Patching Circle is an informal gathering of anyone who is interested in patching languages (Pure Data, Max/MSP/Jitter, etc.). Beginners and experienced patchers welcome. Open to everyone – work on personal or professional projects, school work, or just patch quietly to yourself, in a room full of other people patching patches and helping other people patch.

The meetings are held at CRASHspace (10526 Venice Blvd, Culver City CA 90232).

Bottle-Cap Contact Mic Workshop At CRASHspace

This workshop was mentioned at last month’s patching circle because of Miller’s ceramic tile contact mic demo.

CMKT4 is coming to Maker Faire and they’re visiting hackerspaces along the way, showing how to build their awesome bottle-cap contact microphones.

They’ll be at CRASHspace on Saturday, 14 May 2011, from 6-9 PM. Build a contact mic and learn to use it. $15 gets you one mic. Another $10 gets you a second.

While everything is drying, they’ll play some of their crazy music.

Thank You

Thanks to everyone who made pd-LAunch a great success.

Hans, Chris, and Miller
Guests of honor – Hans-Christoph Steiner, Chris McCormick, Miller Puckette

The first meeting of the pd-la patching circle was on Saturday, 30 April. Miller Puckette joined us and showed us some work he was doing with ceramic tiles and non-linear reverberators.

pd-la Patching Circle

After the patching circle, we had performances from Chris McCormick, Joe Newlin, and Kevin Nelson.

Kevin has offered to host the next patching circle, in a few weeks.

pd-la Patching Circle

Friday Workshop Recap

On Friday 29 April 2011, Chris McCormick taught a workshop at CRASHspace called “Pd As Your Audio Engine.”

Pd As Your Audio Engine Workshop

Chris covered PdLib, WebPd, pygame, Processing, RjDj, and everything you need to know about using Pure Data embedded in other platforms and devices.

The lecture is available for viewing at the CRASHspace Ustream channel. The patches, libraries, and presentation are available for download here.

Thursday Workshop Recap

On Thursday 28 April 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner taught a workshop at CRASHspace called “Starting with Realtime Audio/Video Interaction.”

Hans Pd Workshop

The turn-out was great, and the group made a number of fun patches that used their mouse, microphone, and a Kinect to control video and audio.

There were some technical difficulties with the UStream, so most of the lecture streamed but didn’t save.  There was a back-up camcorder, so a video will be made available.

The patches are available for download on the Pd site, along with some example videos of projects made using some of the techniques covered.

Friday Workshop Reminder

Last night’s workshop went great. Tonight’s is going to be fantastic. Come join us at 7 PM to learn about embedded Pd.

As part of the pd-LAunch week, Chris McCormick will be teaching a workshop on using pdlib as a sound engine for other applications on April 29th at CRASHspace.

Pd As Your Embedded Audio Engine

“Pd as your embedded audio engine” will teach all about embedding libpd as the sound engine for your app, whether its iPhone, Android, Java, OpenFrameworks, Processing, etc. This workshop provides a broad spectrum of different ways of connecting Pd to other things. Having hardware isn’t a requirement either. The workshop will cover ways of interfacing with Pd from computer to computer. Bring your laptop and devices that you want to install libpd on (Android, iPhone, etc.)

HTML and/or programming knowledge will certainly help. The aim of this workshop is to give a broad spectrum of different ways to interface to Pd. So it will be dipping very slightly into Python, C, Java, Javascript, but this is usually “glue code” and all of the code will be fully provided. You do not need to be proficient in these languages at all, the workshop will also cover methods that also just use Pd with no code at all.
Here is an outline of topics:

  • Introduction
  • History of Pd as an engine
  • Ways to interface with a Pd process:
    • Midi & OSC
    • FUDI
    • stdout
    • Python + sockets
    • pdsend/pdreceive
  • Parsing patches in three languages
  • libpd on Android and iOS
  • PdWebKitDroid
  • RjDj and ScenePlayer
  • WebPd

Students will need a laptop and should have Pd-extended installed and working (download for free from http://puredata.info) – it is available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Space is limited.  Cost is $100.  Sign up at the CRASHspace store.

Thursday Workshop Reminder

As part of the pd-LAunch week, Hans-Christoph Steiner will be teaching a workshop on using Pure Data for interactive audio and video on April 28th at CRASHspace.

Kinect Hacking at the NYC Pd Patching Circle from Hans-Christoph Steiner on Vimeo.

Pd provides a wide range of tools for tracking and extracting information from audio in realtime. Once in Pd, we can use the audio to control sound generation, effect, video, camera processing, etc. The combination of audio processing and digital media provide myriad opportunities for creating interactions. This workshop will introduce how to create real-time interaction in the physical world with sound and light. Pd (aka Pure Data) will be introduced as a simple programming environment for real-time interaction. This workshop will be a combination of short lectures, hands-on instruction, and unstructured time to work on learning and exploring with support of the instructor. While Pd is fairly easy to learn and designed for artists, familiarity with basic computer programming will be very beneficial. You will be able to apply the concepts learned in this course to a wide range of programming environments that can receive data via OSC messages or a network socket, such as Arduino, Flash, Processing, etc.

Students are also encouraged to bring additional hardware and/or tools they are interested in working with, as long as they are technically self-sufficient with them. Bring MIDI equipment, projectors, etc. to experiment with realtime control. Bring an Arduino with Firmata plus servos or motor controllers to experiment with motion. Or accelerometers, rotary sensors; flex sensors, etc. to experiment with sensing motion.

Students will need a laptop with Pd-extended installed and working (download for free from http://puredata.info) – it is available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. The laptop needs to have a microphone and speakers.

Space is limited. Cost is $60. Sign up at the CRASHspace store.