Ignite Limerick

Last Wednesday (April 6th) I attended the first Ignite night to take place in Limerick. The event was hosted by Limerick IxDA. There were ten presentations made (each using 20 slides, 20 seconds each slide). Two of my lecturers presented: Gabriela Avram on Milklabs and Mikael Fernstrom on various projects he has worked on using PD. Also of interest to me were the presentations by another previous lecturer of mine, Trevor Hogan, on the Ars Electronica festival and the participation by CIT students in 2010 and Dermot McNally's demo of the Open Street Map.
Hopefully there are plans for another similar event soon. Looking forward to it...

Arduino, Piezo, LDR, Djembe ...

Here's a little circuit using the Arduino. The piezo is attached to the skin of the djembe in order to amplify the sound. A potentiometer turns the sound on and off and a light dependent resistor controls the pitch. Good fun +++

Initial Project Presentation

Yesterday I presented my initial research and concept for my final project to Gabriela Avram and the rest of my class as part of the Principles of Interactive Media module. Here are the slides.
I'm thinking of starting a new blog solely for the project as I can only add static pages to this one and would like to keep things separate.

Initial Project Presentation

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