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,
- 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.