Basically like an Arduino board but with more add-on modules with a relative cost.
As stated on their website “Phidgets are an easy to use set of building blocks for low cost sensing and control from your PC. Using the Universal Serial Bus (USB) as the basis for all Phidgets, the complexity is managed behind an […]
October 31st, 2006
Categories: + phisical computing + . Author: cicciorama . Comments: No Comments
In the Processing website I found out this piece of code that requests the HTTP headers of a page and prints out the results:
I will report here the code which is shown on the Processing website at this address: HTTP CLIENT
import processing.net.*;
Client client;
void setup()
{
size(200, 200);
noStroke();
// Open a TCP socket to the host:
client = new Client(this, […]
October 30th, 2006
Categories: + my project + . Author: cicciorama . Comments: No Comments
After my Arduino board has arrived I have been playing a bit with processing. I don’t have big knoledge of Java or C++, I did only specialize in php for the web, but I am not finding myself in such a bad situation.
Talking about the web I came up with this idea that I would […]
October 20th, 2006
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Not that I know very well how to programm in java, but for any of you interested with this free library, here is the link: FreeTTS 1.2
It is based upon Flite: a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie […]
October 12th, 2006
Categories: + various + . Author: cicciorama . Comments: No Comments
I know this article is quite old, but I think it deserves attention anyway.
The recent revelations about illegal eavesdropping on American citizens by the U.S. National Security Agency have raised many questions about just what the agency is doing. Although the facts are just beginning to emerge, information that has come to light about the […]
October 9th, 2006
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As stated on their website (http://www.nanoloop.de) , Nanoloop is a simple sequencer program which allows to control the Game Boy’s built-in sound generators through a minimalistic graphical interface. Beeing a stepsequencer, nanoloop plays a pattern of 16 1/16 notes in an endless loop, while notes can be set, edited and deleted. The idea of nanoloop […]
October 5th, 2006
Categories: + circuit bending + . Author: cicciorama . Comments: No Comments
Image from http://receptorsmusic.com/
There is a nice lot of people interested with this new form of art, circuit bending. How to upset a piece of electronic gadget or home appliance and transform it into a piece of sounding instrument. This is the main idea.
The fact of being able to transform a pre-thinked equipment and […]
October 3rd, 2006
Categories: + circuit bending + . Author: cicciorama . Comments: No Comments