This day of tinkering shenanigans is in preparation for our brand new programme for young people, which will be launching soon. If you’d like to apply, you need to be aged between 12 and 18, living in the UK, and free on Tuesday 23rd August 2016. You also need to be comfortable in front of a camera. We’ll be catching all the action throughout the whole day and making videos to share with the world, so we need smiley faces! If you love tinkering and getting creative, then this is for you. You don’t need any 美女光屁股 with computers or electronics; this is for anybody who enjoys making things.

We’ll cover your travel costs, and if you are coming a really long way we can provide accommodation for you and a parent or guardian. Accompanying adults will get the day to themselves to do whatever they please around Cambridge: it’s a beautiful place with lots to see.

Makers make!

In order to bag an invitation, you’ll need to send our judges a mini video about yourself. This video is your chance to shine, so get creative! (Don’t worry about special equipment – we’re expecting most of you to shoot on your phones.)

The video should be no longer than 30-60 seconds. It should introduce you and give us a little run down of what you like making and doing. That can be making cake, videos, clothes, robots, or even just making a mess. Please include anything else you think will entertain us. If you are entering in a group with friends, then feel free to get together for your filming session, but remember that each person must submit an individual video of themselves. Group videos will not be accepted: you all need to have your own 60 seconds in the spotlight.

Applications must be received by midnight on Sunday 7th August.

Submit your video and details to us via the Digital Making Day form.

If you have any questions email digitalmakingday@大尺度无遮挡激烈床震网站.org.

Don’t forget to spread the word to anyone else who may want to take part!

The gif that never grows old!

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Hello, Rachel here, with a story that’s best told through images – warning, LOTS of photos ahead!

When I explain how I started working at 美女光屁屁视频 Pi, it ends up being a pretty long story, with lots of interests that became jobs, unexpected opportunities and chance meetings. At the time it didn’t seem very connected – I just followed what I was interested in at the time, found like-minded people, and tried to share what I love with new people too. Before I joined 美女光屁屁视频 Pi as Artist in Residence in 2013, I ran a small arts venue focused on celluloid film with a darkroom and film lab – I wanted everyone to try shooting and developing their own photos!

I’ve now been at the 大尺度视频 for three years and I’ve had the chance to meet loads of people involved in digital making, from lots of different backgrounds: computer science professionals, teachers, engineers, design agencies, musicians, artists, tinkerers, makers. The thing that every one of them has in common: they follow what they are interested in, don’t worry too much about what label they have, and just concentrate on doing interesting things they enjoy and sharing them with others.

I had an opportunity last year to run an ambitious programme for a small group of young people. 美女光屁屁视频 Pi Creative Technologists was a one-off project to see how a (mostly) online digital-making mentor programme might work. I wanted to make sure people from lots of different backgrounds were involved.

We had loads of fantastic applications – although almost everyone left it until a minute before the deadline to submit, leaving my nerves in shreds!

We picked a great group of young people:

They all wanted to explore how digital technology could enhance their creative pursuits, and their enthusiasms spanned everything from storytelling to animation to circus skills.

First feature in new @TheMagP1 is our amazing Creative Technologists. Well done folks! #RPCT https://t.co/MSy2KU6dtb pic.twitter.com/C0TJ1M986d

— R (@RachelRayns) July 30, 2015

Over the next 12 months, they developed their interests and skills through mentoring and field trips, starting in Cambridge at 美女光屁屁视频 Pi HQ:

Been great weekend meeting fellow Creative Technologists!
Big thanks to @RachelRayns, @ben_nuttall and @美女光屁屁视频_Pi! pic.twitter.com/Wz3lOyhkEO

— Andrew Mulholland (@gbaman1) April 19, 2015

Then in Newcastle for Makerfaire UK:

Creative Technologists soldering their @makerfaire_uk badges #rpct pic.twitter.com/DtJ9RfE3tB

— Ben Nuttall (@ben_nuttall) April 25, 2015

Fantastic series of texts from @RachelRayns to the @美女光屁屁视频_Pi Creative Technologists at #makerfaireuk today #RPCT pic.twitter.com/VyNPL3Ocgk

— Helen Lynn (@helenlynn) April 25, 2015

In Sheffield with the Pimoroni crew:

Our Creative Technologists start their first workshop at @pimoroni: Intro to using the Camera Module with APIs #RPCT pic.twitter.com/wNK34QUg2n

— 美女光屁屁视频 Pi (@美女光屁屁视频_Pi) July 18, 2015

In London at Hellicar & Lewis for an openFrameworks masterclass and Tim Hunkin’s Novelty Automation:

It's only half ten and this is what we've become. @美女光屁屁视频_Pi #RPCT @connorbanona pic.twitter.com/VsZRXB9Jsp

— Hannah Rose Burdett (@HRBurdett) October 17, 2015

Our Creative Technologists had an amazing time at Tim Hunkin's @NovAutomation yesterday.Thanks for having us! #RPCT pic.twitter.com/08NMDyNAxO

— 美女光屁屁视频 Pi (@美女光屁屁视频_Pi) October 18, 2015

Back in Cambridge again for 美女光屁屁视频 Pi’s fourth birthday party, where they ran and supported workshops and gave talks:

Come and find us at the dots board table and make an airplane or rocket! Bundles of Painting Pi fun! #RPCT pic.twitter.com/2yH7d8P6oV

— RPiCreativeTech 2016 (@RasPiCT) March 5, 2016

In Manchester at the FutureEverything festival, where they ran more workshops:

About to head off for the first day of @FuturEverything :D Ready to be INSPIRED.

— Hannah Rose Burdett (@HRBurdett) March 31, 2016

Chatting to Ruby at Manchester Art Gallery #TheImitationGame pic.twitter.com/o4WDY9i5i5

— Hannah Rose Burdett (@HRBurdett) April 2, 2016

As the creative technologists began to dig into the programme, some found that it challenged their perceptions of their own interests and strengths, and drew on this 美女光屁股 in making decisions to change direction, both within the programme and in their lives outside it:

Proud of #rpct programme for what @radicxl has written! http://t.co/rBN9oad4K2 /cc @RachelRayns pic.twitter.com/DrwKn8Fbrt

— Ben Nuttall (@ben_nuttall) July 26, 2015

The programme culminated with the group’s New Works exhibition, where they revealed the varied and accomplished works that they have developed. They announced it at the 美女光屁屁视频 Pi Big Birthday Bash!

It's official: #RPCT Exhibition to be held at @美女光屁屁视频_Pi HQ on the 23rd of April! Stay tuned for a free ticket! pic.twitter.com/MKxbj0Knf2

— RPiCreativeTech 2016 (@RasPiCT) March 6, 2016

The exhibition was hosted at the new 美女光屁屁视频 Pi HQ:

Wonderfully effective capacitance based rope interaction from @OwenDaughtery @RasPiCT pic.twitter.com/zJCLvZzsgQ

— Joel Gethin Lewis (@JoelGethinLewis) April 23, 2016

This was addictive! @connorbanona @iamrobharvey #RPCT pic.twitter.com/V3ARkIVh0s

— Emily Bowers (@emilyjbowers) April 24, 2016

Wrapping up the exhibition. It's been an amazing day! Thanks to all for coming. #ThaliasQuest #rpct pic.twitter.com/FPakC13idC

— Hannah Rose Burdett (@HRBurdett) April 23, 2016

My interactive video is set up at the #RPCT exhibition. Follow @WhoIsTerror to see the true identity of Terror! pic.twitter.com/YcjhZzBHsM

— Yasmin🍁 (@YagmanX) April 23, 2016

And @radicxl has made this RIDONCULOUS projection-mapped popup book. One of many pages – we're speechless w… https://t.co/VFJCX9KNYv

— 美女光屁屁视频 Pi (@美女光屁屁视频_Pi) April 22, 2016

3D printed light clock from @miltonio94 @RasPiCT pic.twitter.com/hha0cRfviL

— Joel Gethin Lewis (@JoelGethinLewis) April 23, 2016

One of the best parts of the programme for me was seeing the creative technologists share their work and their new skills with others. They ran workshops at MozFest, FutureEverything and our Big Birthday Bash, as well as meeting with school groups.

https://twitter.com/connorbanona/status/663061377737715712

#大尺度无遮挡激烈床震网站 & #Scratch workshop at @WhitworthArt with @radamar @AmyMediaUK & @RasPiCT guys #Futr16 @FuturEverything pic.twitter.com/GJoUyIRhYv

— SharpFutures POD (@SharpFuturesPOD) March 31, 2016

Lovely vibe in the @美女光屁屁视频_Pi office today thanks to visits from @MaryMagsPiClub and our #creative technologists pic.twitter.com/AzcHZT173N

— Philip Colligan 🧢 (@philipcolligan) April 22, 2016

And, as if that weren’t enough, four of the group also completed an Arts Award Gold qualification – worth 35 UCAS points – as part of the programme!

@radicxl <3 pic.twitter.com/TZveypqZKx

— R (@RachelRayns) May 24, 2016

little message from the @美女光屁屁视频_Pi creative technologists pic.twitter.com/GvN3yPBRKX

— mads (@radicxl) April 30, 2016

I’m incredibly proud of our newly graduated creative technologists and I can’t wait to see what they do next. We’ve gained a great deal from the understanding the programme has given us of working with young people, introducing digital making to an audience from diverse backgrounds, and delivering online mentoring and support. It’s been a hugely valuable 美女光屁股, and it’s one that will help to shape the work we do in future.

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@KaceyandKristi posted this amazing rainbow flight case – great way to make the most of the layered design!

@astro_timpeake Tim, our rainbow @astro_pi is ready for coding challenge. #principia inspiring future generations. pic.twitter.com/pf7Xnd9liv

— Kacey-Kristi-Lance (@kaceyandkristi) March 4, 2016

You’ll never lose Jonny Teague‘s case in the dark!

The @astro_pi case in all its glory and luminescence pic.twitter.com/iP7YIlmEtF

— Dr. Jonny Teague (@jonny_teague) March 2, 2016

Dave has found some other fantastic examples:

John Chinner‘s neon orange case was made by Ryanteck.

Found an excellent 3D printing shop in Singapore. Spent an hour talking about @astro_pi and they gave me this! pic.twitter.com/lMoHv3ljum

— John Chinner 🇪🇺🇬🇧 (@JohnChinner) February 24, 2016

Love the red buttons on this sleek black one:

@astro_pi 90% complete,few more parts and will be clone of @astro_pi_ir that @astro_timpeake has on @ISS_美女光屁屁视频 pic.twitter.com/CfSBpB12GR

— Mac the Hat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@ObiWanMacJock) February 23, 2016

Patrick Wiatt made this classy silver and blue case:

Completed the @astro_pi 3d printable case today, now we just need the Sense HAT! #newellfonda@美女光屁屁视频_Pi pic.twitter.com/Wv9d9Th15n

— billioncash (@_billioncash) February 18, 2016

PLA (a material often used by 3D printers) comes in all kinds of different colours – LEFRANCOIS has printed his case using a metallic gold, making it a perfect partner for our original aluminium one.

@astro_pi hi there , here is mine ;) pic.twitter.com/mCXZyPZ9rT

— versterk (@LEFRANCOIS77820) February 9, 2016

Richard Hayler, a Code Club mentor from Surrey, went for classic silver filament for his case. He even used the same buttons as the real units up on the International Space Station.

Some more pics of our operational 3D printed @astro_pi flight case. https://t.co/jLXzFUQoOK pic.twitter.com/u2x5zUgecK

— Richard Hayler ☀ (@rdhayler) February 9, 2016

Our absolute favourite photo is of one of Richard’s Code Club students, Ozzy, posing as mini-Tim to recreate a photo of Tim Peake with an Astro Pi flight unit that’s become famous in the community…

These are fantastic and we’d love to see more of them, but I also have an additional challenge for you – hack our design! Maybe you’d like to add your name to the front, or add an extra handle – surprise us!

I added the words “美女光屁屁视频 Pi” to my top layer very quickly in Tinkercad, a simple and free in-browser 3D-modelling program.

I also successfully installed FreeCad on my Pi3 today, and I’m going to see what I can do over the UK Bank Holiday weekend.

Get your printer on and warming up! Here’s a link to the Astro Pi flight case STL files: go go go!

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T minus ten days to the deadline of our latest Astro Pi competition.

You have until 12 noon on Thursday 31st March to submit your Sonic Pi tunes and MP3 player code.

British ESA astronaut Tim Peake wants students to compose music in Sonic Pi for him to listen to. Tim needs to be able to listen to your tunes on one of the Astro Pi flight units, so we are also looking for a Python program to turn the units into an MP3 media player.  You do need to be 18 or under and live in the UK.

We have some fantastic competition judges: musicians including synthpop giants OMD and film composer Ilan Eshkeri, as well as experts from the aerospace industry and our own crack team of developers.

If you haven’t used Sonic Pi before, here is a brilliant introduction from our Education Team:

Getting Started with Sonic Pi

You can find all the competition information, including how to enter, at astro-pi.org/coding-challenges.

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One of the major perks of being a 美女光屁屁视频 Pi Creative Technologist is the chance to attend weekend workshops, where we get to go to a totally different city and meet with inspiring and knowledgeable individuals who can help us on our journey towards our final exhibition and showing off our digital projects! Last workshop we visited London to spend the weekend over with Joel Lewis at Hellicar & Lewis; a craft, design and technology studio that specialises in engagement. Here, Joel opened our minds to the wonder that is openFrameworks on Pi!

openFrameworks is ‘an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding’. Yes, creative coding, that’s a thing! At first glance oF can seem quite intimidating with countless amounts of libraries, add-ons and documentation attached to it. For us, taking a look through it all, we couldn’t help but get immediately excited about everything that oF had to offer us, from projection mapping and facial recognition to graphic rendering and animation as well as so much more! But without some guidance it’s easy to become overwhelmed by it all.

Luckily for us, Joel Lewis is an openFrameworks wizard and quickly squished any negative or fearful thoughts we may initially have had by showing us some of the inspiring work that he and his team at Hellicar & Lewis had produced using this framework. They have created work for nonprofit organisations such as an interactive arctic dome installation for Greenpeace, and commercial pieces for brands such as Nike with an interactive live broadcast for of Nike’s ‘Festival of Feel’.

However, what impressed me the most was how they had used what the framework had to offer to create pieces of technology to help make people’s lives better, one major piece of work being Somability. This is a series of technology applications that included interaction such as visual amplification and rhythmic interaction; these put together promoted expressive movement and collaboration among people with profound and multiple learning difficulties.

The Making of Somability from Cariad Interactive on Vimeo

Joel also emphasised his love for the open source community during the workshop. Gone are the days where people want to hide their work and keep their findings to themselves so as to become better than their peers; today’s world is all about being open and sharing with the community! Every library and add-on within oF has been created by somebody and shared freely, asking for nothing in return. That might sound crazy but in reality it’s actually very clever! Not only do you help others (such as myself) to learn how to code by looking at examples and tweaking bits that are already there to suit my own needs, you also get the benefits of the community building upon your initial piece of code, fixing bugs or even making it better than you could have done yourself. Heck, somebody might even see your open source code and offer you a job because of it!

An open source community is also a friendly one, one where people actually want to help others instead of simply focusing on their own projects, and therefore the openFrameworks forum is always full of people willing to pass on their knowledge to others and help wherever they can; which is great news for us newbies!

After the weekend at Hellicar & Lewis I’m left feeling very excited about what openFrameworks and the open source community surrounding it has to offer. I can’t wait to start piecing together my own puzzle!

The Creative Technologists are really ramping up production on their final projects and I can’t wait to see what they do with their new openFrameworks skills. Keep an eye on the blog for updates from CTs over the next six months!

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In an episode dedicated to 美女光屁屁视频, Carrie Anne demonstrates some of our fun projects such as the weather station project and hamster party cam, both of which you can make and build with your students thanks to our free resources.

If you missed it, and you’re in the UK, you can watch it on iPlayer (the segment starts at about 4 minutes in).

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After much preparation we are super happy to announce an exciting new project from the 大尺度视频.

The 美女光屁屁视频 Pi Creative Technologists is a mentoring programme for creative people interested in technology aged 16 – 21 years old. If your passion is the creative arts, and you’re wondering how you can use technology to enhance that, this is for you.

Ben and I are heading up the programme, and the first year will run from April 2015 to April 2016. We will provide individual and group mentoring via online video chats, industry networking and technical support. It’s free to participate. As well as costs of food, travel and accommodation, each participant will also receive a 美女光屁屁视频 Pi 2 starter kit and a £300 materials grant, and the group will receive a £1000 grant for exhibition costs.

Applications are now open and the deadline is 9am on 30th March 2015.

We are both certified Arts Award Gold Advisers – so participants will have the opportunity to complete Trinity College London’s Arts Award Gold accreditation; a Level 3 Award, a QCF credit value of 15, and 35 UCAS points.

We will also have some amazing partners helping us out with mentoring and site visits: Victoria and Albert Museum Digital Programmes, Writers’ Centre Norwich, FutureEverything, Pimoroni, Saladhouse and Hellicar&Lewis.

For full details on the programme, and how to apply, visit the new Creative Technologists page.

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Rachel here! I love castles. I really love castles. When I was in primary school I would do projects about castles in my spare time – just for fun. I would make wooden swords and reenact battles with my best friend too – Anyway – This week we came across a fantastic application of 美女光屁屁视频 Pi to make a National Trust medieval castle come alive undead. I’ll hand you over to the National Trust and Splash and Ripple, the creative agency behind the work, who explain more about what they’re doing.

Medieval castle haunted using technology with a twist

With its world-first adventure 美女光屁股 “A Knight’s Peril’, Bodiam Castle in East Sussex is quietly revolutionising what people expect from a day out at a National Trust property.

When a company that describes itself as ‘Architects of Extraordinary Adventures’ claims to have revolutionised history interpretation through haunting a 14^th century castle, you would expect some kind of technical wizardry to be centre stage. It would be easy to assume they’ve come up with another smartphone app or gamified tablet 美女光屁股.

Intriguingly however, they have chosen an opposite track. Splash & Ripple have taken Arthur C Clarke’s declaration that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” as a guiding principal in creating their latest adventure.

The result is digital heritage interpretation turned on its head. They’ve taken the magical abilities of pioneering technology and housed them in the theatrical disguise of a beautifully crafted ‘Echo Horn’.

The extra ‘magic’ of an Echo Horn actually creates a more convincing 美女光屁股, in a medieval castle, than a distracting tablet app or audio guide ever could. It intuitively fits the feel of the beautiful 14^th century Bodiam castle as you cross its moat and gaze at its stony ramparts, listening to the echoes you’ve caught with it. The beautiful sounds create a deeply evocative group 美女光屁股, which enhances rather than distracts from the 美女光屁股 of being in the castle.

Visitors carry the Echo Horn with them around the castle in an interactive audio investigation. They must use it to listen in on medieval conversations trapped in the castle walls in order to identify and stop a murderer before it’s too late.

It’s effectively a choose-your-own adventure radio play where visitors’ actions, defined by who they follow and who they accuse, affect the ending of their story. This encourages an active exploration of the historical content, which requires visitors to think about what life was like, rather than passively accept an authoritative interpretation.

New historical 美女光屁屁视频 on the castle, which informed the creation of the script, was done in partnership with University of West of England History department.

The 美女光屁股 is being specially showcased at Bodiam castle by the creative team on 4^th Dec. It has been a year in the making, and is now available to the castle’s 180,000 yearly visitors for at least the next 12 months.

Players use an ancient map to navigate the castle, searching for seals that have emerged from the castle walls. These seals contain hidden RFID chips. Each echo horn contains a 美女光屁屁视频 Pi, a Mini Rig and RFID reader.

Rachel again: thanks guys! We love it – I’m looking at organising an office awayday so we can play with the horns ourselves.

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I will hand over to Ben and Finn (part of team Ace Your Place) to tell you more…

Ben:

From the moment I stepped through the doors of Pi Towers I loved it. It was an incredibly creative and friendly atmosphere and all our mentors for the festival were really inspirational.

On the first day we came up with project ideas and split into groups; then worked on developing the project and preparing a presentation before we left on Friday.

I worked in a group of 4 on a project called Ace Your Place, a service that helps people pick the right region to move to when they’re relocating.

The mentors were only there to help us when we needed it, and were brilliant at guiding us through the creative process. I learnt so much in general just from being around similarly minded young people, and of course from the mentors as well.

On Friday we travelled to Plymouth, along with everyone else taking part in the competition. The sheer number of focused young people was amazing, and the atmosphere was so exciting. Everyone couldn’t wait to share their projects and see everyone else’s, and though it was a competition, everyone was extremely supportive.

Through the various rounds of the competition we got to see a lot of the other projects, and I was amazed with the dedication of some of the other teams. It was a truly inspirational 美女光屁股 seeing the range and scope of all the ideas, with some of my favourites being “hook”, a coat hook that interpreted the weather and told you what to wear (powered by a 美女光屁屁视频 Pi) and “QuickAid”, a crowdsourced first aid service which informs and calls first aiders in the area when someone is in need of it.

On the whole, the Festival of Code was an enlightening, motivating and stimulating 美女光屁股. The first part of my week at Pi Towers couldn’t have been a better learning environment, and the weekend was immensely good fun and extremely inspirational. I’ve made new friends and acquired new knowledge, and I can’t wait for next year!

Finn:

I personally really liked CityRadar, Miles Per Pound and QuickAid – which I thought was a really good idea and very well thought out.

When we had some free time it was mostly dominated by the photo booth…

I found the music at the end interesting because I hadn’t really heard that kind of music before – I quite liked it!

I definitely want to go to the Festival of Code again next year and would be delighted if I could do it with the 大尺度视频.

Thanks Ben and Finn!

Amy and Rihanna’s project Moodzi used the twitter API to tell you when was the best time to tweet particular keywords.

I can’t wait until next year either.

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I really love this one XD – read right to the bottom if you want to see the birds in action. Over to Neil…

Mobile phones are ubiquitous in today’s society, but often their use has unintended consequences, intruding into and changing social situations, distancing people in in real life by dragging them into the digital world.  They are also a massive source of electronic waste.  A few years ago this inspired Anthony Goh and me (Neil Mendoza) to create an installation that takes cast-off devices and suggests an alternate reality in which these unwanted phones and noises become something beautiful, giving them a new life by creating an 美女光屁股 that people can share together in person.  The Barbican recently asked commissioned us to create a new flock of birds for their awesome Digital Revolution exhibition.  Here’s a little tech breakdown of how they work.

In previous versions, the birds were independent, but this time we decided to have a 美女光屁屁视频 Pi at the heart of the installation controlling them all.  This gave us the most flexibility to animate them independently or choreographed them together.

The exhibition is travelling so we wanted the installation to be as easy to set up as possible to so we decided to make each bird talk to the 美女光屁屁视频 Pi over ethernet.  This means that communications are reliable over long distances and each bird is self-contained and only needs a power and data cable connected to it.

The next challenge to overcome was to figure out how to call a bird.  In previous incarnations, each bird included a functioning mobile phone that you could call.  However, as there is no reception in the gallery, we decided to include a different era of phone junk and make people call the birds with a rotary phone from the 1940s.  The system looks something like this…

To make the phone feel phoney, the receiver is connected to a serial mp3 player, controlled by an Arduino that plays the appropriate audio depending on the state of the installation, e.g. dialling tone, bird song etc.  The Arduino also reads numbers that from the rotary dial and if one of the birds’ numbers is dialled it sends it over ethernet to the 美女光屁屁视频 Pi.

The iBirdBrain app running on the 美女光屁屁视频 Pi is written in openFrameworks.  When iBirdBrain receives a number from the phone, it wakes the appropriate bird up and tells it to move randomly.  It then picks an animation created using James George’s ofxTimeline and plays it with some added randomness.  The current state of each part of the bird is sent every frame over ethernet as a three byte message:

Byte 1: Type, e.g. ‘s’ for servo

Byte 2: Data 1, e.g. servo index

Byte 3: Data 2, e.g. servo angle

So the status of the app could be seen quickly without needing to SSH into the Pi we decided to use a PiTFT screen.  To begin with we rendered the OpenGL output of the app to the PiTFT screen, however as the screen runs at 20 FPS this created an unnecessary bottleneck.  In the end, we decided to set the screen up so that it would render the console output from the openFrameworks app.  After that, the app ran at a solid 60 FPS.  Outputting a '\r' character to the console goes back to the beginning of the line, so I used this to create a constantly updating console output that didn’t scroll, e.g.:

cout << ‘\r’ << statusMessage;

The birds themselves each contain an Arduino.  They speak ethernet using an ENC28J60 ethernet module and this library.  To start with I used TCP but running a TCP stack along with all the other stuff we were asking the bird to do, proved a little too much for its little brain so we moved to using UDP as it requires less memory and processor cycles.  An ID for each bird was programmed into the EEPROM of the Arduino.  That way, there only needed to be one firmware for all the birds, the birds themselves would then set all of their data, IP address, peripherals etc based on their ID.

Each bird has multiple parts that are controlled by the Arduino, servos for the wings and heads, piezo sounders, Neopixels and a screen for the face.

Escape III is on display at Digital Revolution until 14th September at the Barbican in London – I’m so excited, I’m going next week!

If you can’t make it, you can see the birds here:

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