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Our new interactive window display project
I am excited to announce a new interactive window display at NextFab Studio!
A camera will face the sidewalk outside and detect human faces. A program will display random shapes differing in color and size, according to the peoples facial positions. (Don’t worry, we are not recording your face.)
The main idea for it is to let passersby have a chance to join a temporary public art project with us and explore more about NextFab Studio.
I have been working on this for the past few weeks. I researched many possibilities, then decided to use openFramework, not only because it has a lot of features for user interface design, but also runs on both Mac and Windows. It is also easier for people who don’t have a programming background to understand. Moreover, you can find a lot of examples on their forum website. The forum has been very helpful for me!
As you can see, Version 1 (directly above) had just black in the background, then I tried to keep the tester’s face on the screen for some debugging reasons. The outcome was more intuitive and intriguing. Version 2 (at the top of this post) included the faces that were detected, and for the current version, well…you will have to come and see! ;)
A next step for this project is perhaps making the shapes follow or drift away according to the positions of the passersby’s faces.
Since it is an ongoing project, we will be happy to receive some feedback and ideas. Please feel free to comment!
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Weekly Staff Picks, January 15, 2012
Check out how Arduino is made! Photos and videos from a tour of the Arduino factory in Torino, Italy. - Christine
IEEE’s The story of Arduino It compliments the link above. - Gregg
3D Japanese Artwork Amazing Japanese artist who paints goldfish in resin the same way a 3D printer builds a part up layer by layer. - Alex
Scott Young’s Computer Science Blog “Over the next 12 months, I’m going to learn the entire 4-year MIT curriculum for computer science, without taking any classes. I’ve always wanted to speak that language. But, I didn’t want to invest four years of my life and hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn it. I want to show that learning doesn’t require acceptance boards and SAT tests, thousands of dollars in debt, or even the 4-year pace most students assume is necessary to learn a subject.
Will I fail? It’s definitely a possibility. I’m attempting to learn the same material at 4 times the speed without the benefit of instructors. I’ll also post any failures, so you can be sure I’m not omitting my mistakes.” - Alex
Diagnostic Contact Lens This one is pretty cool; a contact lens that monitors blood sugar levels. - Gregg
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Weekly Staff Picks, April 29, 2012
Here are our Staff picks for this week. We’ve got Robots, Clothing mods, an Arcade, Etsy and Software links today. We hope you enjoy them!
How to Train your Robot Teaching kids between 5 and 7 to program by using parents as the CPUs to carry out a set of instructions prepared by the children. The author describes how he observed the children naturally discovering principles such as parametrization, abstraction, composition and unit testing. - Alex
Refashionista Fun clothing hacks. I’ve got a ton of old clothes just waiting to be made into new ones! - Christine
Regretsy outs an Etsy re-seller who imports furniture from Bali. - Stephanie
Caine’s Arcade Very maker-spiritual cardboard arcade built by a 9-year-old boy. - WanTing
The Zooming Presentation Editor PPTs are booooring. Check out this new way to present using typography and motion. - Ross
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