Hacknight 19th June

On 2010/06/12 · Leave a Comment · In Forskningsavdelningen, Hakerspaces

Hacknight is a free one-day creative tech conference in Malmö, Sweden on June 19, 2010.

Local hackerspace Forskningsavdelningen invites you to enjoy tech culture unfolding. Hands-on workshops and a captivating speaker track will cultivate and realize ideas. Network with participants from all over the scene.

A large, industrial house plays host to the hordes of interested tech heads. For the duration of the conference, the hackerspace is extended to encompass the whole building.

We have quite a few topics to choose from that will be announced as soon as we have fitted them into the schedule. We are still open for workshop suggestions though. As we have quite a large space for this purpose we have room for two or more workshop areas for example.

Talks begin at 17.00 and will be in 1hr slots, but are not yet set as of which talk will begin when. Workshops will have introductions before they start and then continue at one of the workshop locations for a limited or unlimited (until hacknight is over) time.

Go and tell your friends! http://hacknight.se/

MORE IS COMMING (Check out the pages for more info about the talks/workshops)

Talks:
The Pirate Bay by Peter Sunde (aka brokep from TPB)
Crypto Activism
Blackthrows
Mandos
Netbased commons

Workshops:
Lockpicking
All you can 1337
Beyond bleep-blop by goto80
Retro Computing Corner
PGP Key signing party

All is free and we will serve free food during this event!

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Beginning with Processing, for fun

On 2010/06/09 · Leave a Comment · In Code

Processing. It is fun. The examples make you happy. Learning it is a well-documented process. And there are many sources for learning it.

Choose File/Examples/Libraries/Video Capture/ and pick an interesting starting point.

I liked the Frame Differencing sketch (yes, a “sketch” is what they call a minor program) by Golan Levin.

I took the liberty of fiddling further with Levin’s work, and made the program into a “game”. I wanted the program to complain about the user moving too much:


// just a number I grabbed (fiddle with this!)
int threshold = 4465911;
if (movementSum > threshold) {
    // Use fill() to change the value or color of the text
    // "R, G, B" makes this yellow
    fill(255, 255, 0);
    text("Sitt still!", 100, 360);
}

You can embellish this further, by adding a custom font! See File/Examples/Basics/Typography/ for more inspiration. The font file should be added to the sketch using the Sketch/Add File... menu item.

I only wrote this so that you’d be prodded to fiddle a little with Processing. At Forskningsavdelningen meetings, you’ll probably meet people that experiment with it. Here are some beautiful visual assets to animate.

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