Prototyping NM 2011-2012 T1

Prototyping Trimester 1 occurred between October and December of the year 2011

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,
  • Option 1: Creating an Inkscape Effect with Python & ElementTree
  • Option 2: Remixing an RSS feed with Python
• 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.

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.
Prepare to show in class 27 October.

Submitted 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)
• Marie
• Petra

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)
• Danny
• Dusan
• Fako

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
• ? 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.

Submitted work:

• 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)
• txt to svg (Dave)
• ? XML Manipulation (Andre)