Nastypixel is a design collective, composed of people associated with Interaction Ivrea in Italy. As a contribution to open-source learning, they have published a a series of excellent step-by-step tutorials, or “recipes”, on how to make various DIY interactive projects. The first project, Soundpad, teaches you how to take apart a computer keyboard and appropriate the internal logic to your own needs. This way you can connect four button pads to your computer, where a Flash software component plays different sounds depending on the pad you press.
As a note on gestural interfaces, previously mentioned on Intwo, SmartRetina is a platform for computer gesture recognition, developed by Yaniv Steiner of Nastypixel. It has a camera component and a software component, forming the base for touchless gestural interfaces.
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Hello, I am not a student in a university program of any kind. I am however interested in learning interactive design and electronics. I am a complete beginner so your website appealed to me since I cannot find anything else out there like it. When I tried to follow the link to download the “Wiring” software I was just sent to a page saying there was an error. Is there another way for me to download the software?
Hello, I am not a student in a university program of any kind. I am however interested in learning interactive design and electronics. I am a complete beginner so your website appealed to me since I cannot find anything else out there like it. When I tried to follow the link to download the “Wiring” software I was just sent to a page saying there was an error. Is there another way for me to download the software?
December 28th, 2009
6:32 pm
Hey Tony, I realize that this is from quite a while ago, so sorry if you have moved on. We haven’t been updating intwo is much for a long time, and so I just came across your comment now.
I have found the link that you are referring to, and it is on the InstantSOUP website, which we are not in control of. If I am correct, though, the address that you are looking for is this:
http://wiring.org.co/
Good luck in your learning!
Hey Tony, I realize that this is from quite a while ago, so sorry if you have moved on. We haven’t been updating intwo is much for a long time, and so I just came across your comment now.
I have found the link that you are referring to, and it is on the InstantSOUP website, which we are not in control of. If I am correct, though, the address that you are looking for is this:
http://wiring.org.co/
Good luck in your learning!
March 4th, 2010
2:50 pm