FITC Toronto 2015

2015-04-12 00:00:00 2015-04-15 00:00:00 America/Toronto FITC Toronto 2015 A three-day professional celebration of the best the world has to offer in design, web development, media and innovation in creative technologies. Toronto FITC Toronto

Presentation

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Beyond the Screen – Building Projects and Art with the Internet of Things
Creative Code
Hardware

Overview

This session will be a crash course in using things other than PCs, tablets, and phones to build beautiful, connected experiences. The session will cover microcontrollers, sensors, LEDs, wireless communication, lightweight protocols, and small form factor computers like the Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone.
As part of the talk, Branden deconstructs a number of client projects and personal art projects.  This includes the Crypto Lotus, a nearly 3m-tall interactive and robotic lotus blossom containing thousands of LEDs that he built and displayed at Burning Man in 2013.

Target audience

Developers, technically minded designers, producers.

Assumed audience knowledge

Basic software development skills.

Audience will learn

  1. When to choose Arduino vs. small form factor computer.
  2. How to balance budget vs computing power.
  3. The ins and outs [ons and offs?] of LED strips.
  4. The basics of safely powering thousands of LEDs.
  5. How to choose a wireless technology and protocol.