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Dorkbot London 35
Posted February 28th 2006 under Events, Games, Locative, Processing
Reporting on Dorkbot London 35 (search Dorkbot for previous events). Photos here.
First up was the ever busy Tom Carden. Tom gave a general introduction to Processing, for those who simply didn’t know. He then announced two arrivals to the community: ProcessingHacks (collaboration with toxi) a wiki detailing some of the trickier coding approaches & ProcessingBlogs, a site syndicating content from other blogs posting related work.
Tom then went on to show some of his recent work. The Travel Time Tube Map is a Processing app that shows the tube map based on time. His attractors and particles sketches led to a series in collaboration with a fashion photographer. My favorite was a nice applet using data from Bio Mapping (Christian Nold), shown here.
Dave Griffiths presented Fluxus, a graphical system for live coding, and Fastbreeder, an experimental genetic programming synthesiser.
The last dorkbot was Wojciech Kosma, who attempted to present his work on the PSP (Playstation Portable) without using an enlarged projected video feed or audio signal, but hey, his website explains things better. Watch video.
On to the open dorks. First a chap called Anton attempted to show us how to hack RFID readers using Linux, although failed to get it working :)
Cefn Hoile and Dave Chatting, from Curiosity Collective (making ipswich interesting), showed some very interesting projects, so I urge you to check out their site.
The last opendork was a surprise, Simon Green from Nvidia showed some impressive game-of-life and particle simulations using the Nvidia GPU.
Aside from giving a Nintendo Powerglove away at the end, there were two announcements. Firstly for Dorkfest, two days of dorkery as part of the Node London season. Secondly an Open Street Map workshop on the Isle of Wight.
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