http://eyebeam.org/events/beyond-the-joystick-introduction-to-alternative-physical-interfaces

This workshop led by Eyebeam Fellow Kaho Abe is for artists, designers and hobbyists interested in starting to think about and explore alternative physical interfaces that can be used in games, toys or interactive art projects.

Thinking beyond the traditional screen, keyboard and mouse interface, as well as the traditional gaming controller, we will utilize tools including the Arduino development system, simple low-tech switches and sensors to create custom physical interfaces to enhance the user experience. And later on in the workshop, we will learn about combining Processing with the Arduino for a richer experience.

http://eyebeam.org/events/beyond-the-joystick-introduction-to-alternative-physical-interfaces

Join us at NYC Resistor next Sunday, this month we have William Brent (http://williambrent.com/ ) in town joining us.  He’s written the timbreID library for extracting detailed info from audio, as well as some video tracking objects for Gem, and of course uses them in his artistic works.

http://puredata.info/community/NYCPatchingCircle

We spend enough time alone staring at our computers; we are proposing to work together. So often issues that arise when working can be solved with a quick two minute discussion that would take hours to solve alone. We have Dorkbot to see people’s work, we have Share where anyone can play, we have workshops and universities to learn from. This is a meeting where we all can come to work.

This is an informal gathering of patching and patchers (Pd, Max/MSP/Jitter, and even vvvv, Eyesweb, Labview, etc.). Beginners and Experienced welcome. Open to everyone, students, the public, etc. Work on personal projects, professional projects, school projects, ask for help, help others, or just patch quietly to yourself, in a room full of other people patching patches and helping other people patch.

Sunday 3/27, 6-9pm
Free!

Debian-NYC would like to invite you to our next Novice Night.

Novice Nights are Debian-NYC’s meetings for everyone. If you would
like to install Debian, come on by. If you would like help with
configuring or making Debian do what you need, we can do that too. If
you want to hang out with Debianistas to pick up tips and tricks, come
on by. We can also provide some help with other derivatives of Debian,
such as Ubuntu.

Novice Nights are free-form: bring your questions, and you’ll be able
to talk to people to answer them. There isn’t a set structure here or
presentation, so you can come and go as you would like. There may be
mini-presentations throughout the night. We will be able to help with
new installations or fixing/configuring existing ones. We can make
installation CDs or USB drives. You should bring your computers you
would like help on (and your friends!).

We welcome groups. If you have a group attending, feel free to contact
us in advance so that we can prepare something for you. If you have
questions, please direct them to Richard Darst .

Where and When: Eyebeam, Tuesday, January 18th, 2011. Come and go as
you like between 6pm and 10pm.

Getting there: See Eyebeam directions. Eyebeam is on the west side of
Manhattan, in Chelsea. (540 W. 21st Street, (between 10th and 11th
Avenues) New York, NY 10011) A/C/E/1/2/3/L trains are the closest, and
Eyebeam is right next the Hudson River Greenway.

Contact: IRC on #debian-nyc on irc.debian.org ; [email protected] ;
or Richard Darst (rkd at zgib dot net).

Web: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianNYC/NoviceNights

I’m here in Carbondale, Illinois with Joe Deken of New Blankets and Theron Trowbridge of Crashspace to spread the word about all sorts of hacking.  Our host Gi Vania is a ham and he even has an official Illinois ham license plate!

libpd has reached a 0.1 release, enabling developers to use Pd as a sound engine in their applications. Out of the gate, we have extensive code samples for Android 1.5 and later, plus the basic tools to work on iOS (recent armv7 recommended for now, with other devices soon). In the near future, embedding Pd patches inside tools like Processing/Java, OpenFrameworks/C++, and Python should be just as easy. The library is based on Pd vanilla, so this is not a fork of Pd; you can use patches in it just as you would in any other version.

Developers will find the library, code snippets (for Android; iOS is coming), and even some handy abstractions:
http://gitorious.org/pdlib/

To learn more:
Article on the release at createdigitalmusic:
http://bit.ly/libpdishere

Group for discussing Pd on mobile, embedded, and using libpd:
http://noisepages.com/groups/pd-everywhere/

End users with Android phones or tablets can try out packages now:
http://gitorious.org/pdlib/pages/Packages
… in addition to patches from Chris detailed in the CDM post above.

libpd available is thanks to the work of Peter Brinkmann, with testing, further development, documentation, and other contributions from the RjDj team (who are now adopting it in their future development work), Hans-Christoph Steiner, Chris McCormick (who has also added the ability to make HTML5 web interfaces), and Peter Kirn, along with members of the NYC Patching Circle at NYC Resistor.