Our Recipe Dshini is wall mounted and it’s a bit tricky to access the inner parts. As we wanted to make reprogramming the Arduino a bit easier we mounted an USB extension right into the body. Now we are able to access the board from outside. :)
Today I want to introduce our latest project: the Recipe Dshini. It is an Arduino driven, database enabled, built-of-old-parts, easy-to-use, retro-steamy, Wallace & Gromit-ish recipe printer — FTW! Continue reading
Today I will write just a few lines concerning artwork and music of BITBALL. Continue reading
In this part of BITBALL resources I will write some lines of how we tried to support our BITBALL event with a glowing and talking cube. Continue reading
With this article I will start a series of 4 to give you some insights and all resources. This should give you the possibility to build and improve BITBALL yourself in context of Creative Commons — it’s entirely open source :) Continue reading
So, yesterday we built up BITBALL in Mainz and it was truly amazing. After some problems with interfering sunlight and a crashed configuration file everything went well and people passing by (and of course we ourselves) had tons of fun playing. It was a great pity that we had to shut it down later that night. As promised, I will write some articles and a documentation within the next few days — for now you can have a sneak peek at what happened last night:
And of course you can find more info on Facebook and bitball.net!
The last weeks where pretty silent on this blog but as you might guess this has to do with the Kinect project I was talking about earlier. Well, time has come to bring some light into this. Continue reading