Prototyping NM 2011-2012 T1
Prototyping Trimester 1 occurred between October and December of the year 2011
Exercise 1.1: Reworking the Public Domain
Based on the past two weeks, using the tools we've been exploring (inkscape, bash, python), create a reworking of a "public domain" work.
- SVG Movie (Jasper)
- In search of lost time, Mr. Retweet, SVG Python (Jonas)
- Google Search By Image (Sebastian)
- A Man of Many Parts (Silvio)
- Python Printing Press (Eleanor)
- Python+SVG Zooming Headlines & Clock (Andre)
- Browser Zoetrope and Soldier Soldier meets Wordnet (Dave)
From second years:
- Slinky Book Reader (Laurier)
- Constellate Me (Lieven)
- Oh to be in need of glasses (Laura)
- Haiku Dream Mixer (Mirjam)
- There's a certain predictability in that randomness (Inge)
- Pirate Dance (Amy)
Exercise 1.2: "Mixing Sources" CGI
Demonstrate a CGI script that demonstrates a live mixing of two or more sources
- Wiki stats (Jasper)
- Image Merger (Jonas)
- Google+7 (Silvio & Sebastian)
- IP Mosaic (Silvio)
- Holland-Harwich Ship Tracker (Eleanor)
- ? Street Name Map (Andre)
- CNN vs. Fox: Remixing an RSS Feed, ASCIINoise, Occupy Ticker (Dave)
Exercise 1.3: Write a Cookbook Recipe
Document a skill you've learned (or are learning) some of the technique we've looked at in class (Regular expressions, lxml, Hardware hacking, Arduino)
- Give a sense of the context (introduction text, images, screenshots) of what you are working on (not just technical)
- Include (working) code, where possible
- Include the tag [[Category: Cookbook]] to categorize your page in the Cookbook.
- Reading Wii Nunchuck data in Python (Jasper)
- How to do Simple Ajax Request with jQuery (Jonas)
- MIPSUM, an Inkscape "lorem ipsum" plugin for learning while practicing (Silvio)
- Cool stuff with Percentages (Eleanor)
- Text 2 SVG (Dave)
- FfmpegandAudio, FFMpeg#Video_Transcoding (Andre)
Syllabus
- 1.01: 13 october Cadavre Exquis SVG
- 1.02: 20 october Soldier Soldier Will You Marry Me
- 1.03: 27 october Review Exercise 1.1,
- 1.04: 6 nov The Location Field is the New Command Line
List of interesting archives to tweak
- 1.05: 17 nov Forms, Eliza, AI, motivational posters and regular expressions
- 1.06: 24 nov Electro week with Stock: prototyping hardware hack
- 1.07: 1 dec Video, Javascript, and Javascript Christmas Cards.
- 8 dec tutorials & "LgrUnch"
- 15 dec: Final Presentation & Assessments of Thematic Project
- 1.07: 1 Dec
- 1.08: 8 Dec
On Thursday 15 Dec, First Years present the results from the Networked Media Sampler.