Arduino Change Color of Processing

Arduino Project to Change Color of Processing Application

This Arduino project reads in voltages that can be modified from basic potentiometers and write those values to the serial port. On the Processing side, the values are read back in and then converted to red and blue values to dynamically update the application's background in varying shades of violet.

Processing-test

Amazing Arduino project

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Project AIM: Develop an interactive, twitter generated virtual dress.

"McTweet dress" is a visualization of twitter messages designed for display in public space.

To develop twitter generated dynamic dress Arduino and Processing software would be used. Twitter messages would be projected on several surfaces such as: mannequin, white board, boxes, etc. Possibility of using images and videos from Alexander McQueen collections may acquire.

Scope of work

Software: Arduino and Processing.

Location of work: B120 (Monday, Tuesday), B132 (Thursday), home.

Period of Performance:

• Class work (3.5 hours)
• Homework (3.5 hours).
• Project delivery: Week 13. 30th April 2010.

Displayed information: review presented data

Identify surface: appearance of artifact.

Research for public space: where artifact would be exhibited.

Testing artifact: week 11-12

Arduino + A. McQueen

In memory of Alexander McQueen I have decided to create tweet dress.

How it's going to work?

• Getting Twitter messages designed to display in public space.
• Each Twitter message containing famous fashion designer name will be projected on mannequin, which will create the virtual dress.
• You Tweet = You design

Similar project: Twitter to Flash

• visibletweets
• christmastweets
  

Alexander McQueen

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Alexander McQueen was born in London on March 17th 1969, the youngest of six children. He left school at the age of 16 and was offered an apprenticeship at the traditional Saville Row tailors Anderson and Shephard and then at neighbouring Gieves and Hawkes, both masters in the technical construction of clothing.

From there he moved to the theatrical costumiers Angels and Bermans where he mastered 6 methods of pattern cutting from the melodramatic 16th Century to the razor sharp tailoring which has become a McQueen signature. Aged 20 he was employed by the designer Koji Tatsuno, who also had his roots in British tailoring. A year later McQueen travelled to Milan where he was employed as Romeo Gigli’s design assistant. On his return to London, he completed a Masters degree in Fashion Design at Central Saint Martin’s. He showed his MA collection in 1992, which was famously bought in its entirety by Isabella Blow.

Alexander McQueen shows are known for their emotional power and raw energy, as well as the romantic but determinedly contemporary nature of the collections. Integral to the McQueen culture is the juxtaposition between contrasting elements: fragility and strength, tradition and modernity, fluidity and severity. An openly emotional and even passionate viewpoint is realised with a profound respect and influence for the arts and crafts tradition. Alexander's collections combine an in-depth working knowledge of bespoke British tailoring, the fine workmanship of the French Haute Couture atelier and the impeccable finish of Italian manufacturing.

In less than 10 years McQueen became one of the most respected fashion designers in the world. In October 1996 he was appointed Chief Designer at the French Haute Couture House Givenchy where he worked until March of 2001.

In December 2000, 51% of Alexander McQueen was acquired by the Gucci Group, where he remained Creative Director. Collections include womens ready-to-wear, mens ready-to-wear, accessories, eyewear and fragrance (Kingdom 2003 and MyQueen 2005). Expansion followed and included the opening of flagship stores in New York, London, Milan, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

The following awards have recognized Alexander McQueen’s achievement in fashion: British Designer of the year 1996, 1997, 2001, and 2003, International Designer of the Year by The Council of Fashion Designer's of America (CFDA) in 2003, A Most Excellent Commander of The British Empire’ (CBE) by her Majesty the Queen in 2003, GQ Menswear Designer of the Year in 2007.

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Best Collections!

Twitter to Flash: Class3

For the Arduino project I have decided to get Tweets taking about Alexander McQueen into Flash.
Afterwords, I will be looking to connect Flash data to device like projector.

I started looking up for online tutorials, grate example was given by RiverCityGraphix




When i completed the tutorial i got this error:

"Error #2044: Unhandled ioError:. text=Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=skwinte
at twittertoflash_fla::MainTimeline/twittertoflash_fla::frame1()"

While looking for any description what Error #2044 and Error #2032 mean I came across to Judag's blog.

The blog explains what causes the error. My exported swf tries to access a file across a restricted domain.

"It’s not going to get the file if it is not allowed to access it. This behavior then generates the error. The fix in is to add a cross-domain policy file to the domain where the page is located at. The cross-domain file must specify that your domain (or any other domains) can access that URL. You can also use a proxy on your server to get the file."


p.s. this task is for the weekend