thanks to all who came out last night. had a great time and learned a lot about microprocessing, tracking kittens and why ‘christmas dudes’ have more angst than ‘halloween dudes’. 

guy’s presentation can be found in our source file area, and please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or ideas for collaboration.

thanks again to guy, alana and all the cool people at circle s studio and a super special thanks to my home big river for the continual support to make this happen every month.

see you next month!

we’ve gotten a lot of feedback about doing another arduino session, so here it is.. come on over to the Corrugated Box where our friends from Circle S Studio will host us as Guy Winterbotham guides us through any and all things you’ve even wanted to know about ardunio and how to use it. we’ll start out with Guy taking us through some basics and idea starters, then start working in real time on some projects. if you’ve had ideas brewing for your own arduino project but didn’t know where to start, or have dug in to a project and hit a roadblock, bring your projects and ideas and we’ll see if we can’t get it going. 

this session is more workshop style than lecture and no question is too basic. 

hope you can make it out on tues, may 8 at the Corrugated Box.

heyo!

super excited for this month’s devjam at the VCU Mass Comm school, where we’re going to team with the Ad Club at VCU to go over the basics of markup (html) and styling (css). we’ll start with the proper way to build and add structure to your page, and then go over the most efficient and effective ways to style it from there using the latest css advances.

by the way, for those of you keeping score at home.. where did DevJam IX go, you ask? well, this is actually our 10th session. although we did skip a session in December, we had a follow up session to IV in late October that was kind of off the books. so just to keep our numbers neat, i’ve bumped us up to session X. special thanks to our friends at Royall for making DevJam 4.5 a great time!

anyway, should be a great time this week. and looking forward to meeting a bunch of new people from the Ad Club at VCU.

hope to see you there!

so.. seriously - last night was awesome at the jam. Zack blew our minds with some SuperCollider/Processing magic. videos of his theremin, generated thunder storm and note radar are below (sorry bout the mixed networks.. damn limitations..).

here’s the link to all his materials from last night, including his presentation that includes some cool examples and resources and most importantly the source to the examples below..

SUPER fun - thanks to everyone who came out and super thanks to Zack!

UPDATE - Zack posted these experiments in better fidelity on his blog - check it out.

Check out Richmond DevJam on Vimeo.

hey everyone,

sorry for the late notice, but next weds, march 14, we’ll do DevJam VIII - interactive audio via SuperCollider and Processing. SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. or in other words, a magical, free software program that makes cool noises. an easy way to interface with SuperCollider is through Processing using OSCP5 and SuperCollider libraries. first, download and install SuperCollider, and then download the latest versions of the OSC and SC libs to drop into your Processing ‘libraries’ folder. 

leading us in this awesome endeavor will be The Martin agency’s awesome coding daredevil Zack Ensign - all around great guy and DevJam III alum.

during the session, we’ll go over the basics of setup (though we strongly recommend you download and install the programs and libraries first) and run through some basic examples that will hopefully lead you down the path of coming up with your own sonic gems.

please reserve your spot if you’re coming. hope to see you there!

for the inaugural devjam i really wanted to create an invisibility cloak on a remote control car by wrapping it in digital paper and mounting four cameras (front, back, left and right) to project that image to the opposite side. costs prohibited us from actually executing it.. but mercedes just did it for real. and it’s rad -

http://mashable.com/2012/03/ 03/invisible-mercedes/

Another awesome night at the jam!! Thanks so much to everyone that came out. Had a blast. Source from tonight’s session is here -

http://bit.ly/x24XqH

Look forward to talking to you all soon - 

ack

so for anyone who has ever wanted to jump in to javascript but hasn’t yet, here’s your chance. don’t be scared - bring yourself and your computer to the next DevJam and let’s have a throw down. we’ll start at ground zero and by the end of the session we’ll have javascript doing things like replacing text in an html page and making small objects fly around the screen. 

please do bring your computers and dreamweaver or any plain text editor (i prefer textmate) as the session will be highly interactive and we’ll all build things in real time.

we’re also moving the sessions to wednesdays now. so this session will be on weds, feb 15 here at big river.

hope to see you here!

Thanks to everyone who came out for the Phonegap session - was great to see a bunch of new faces, and look forward to catching up with everyone again soon. 

I have put the source files (www folder) for the accelerometer example we went over in the source area of the site - please hit me up with any questions you have on it, and please share any cool experiments you might come up with as well!

Thanks again and see you next time -

gonna have some fun getting our mobile on with some standards.

DevJam VI - Phonegap