MakeAXE 2015 - WSU Summer Camp

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Overview

Day 1

Morning (8:30 - 12:00)

8:30 - 9:00: Introductions

Introductions: me, counselors

What is this camp?

  • Making instruments
  • DJ, VJ
  • Realtime audio/video synthesis Pure Data
  • Examples: Maize video
  • Live demo with bananas and stuff

How the camp is structured

9:00 - 9:30: The Name Game

  • Groups of 4 and 5, then 9:
  • Name
  • Music thing or Geek thing or anything!
  • Contest between the 9

9:30 - 10: Pure Data intro

lecture schmecture 1

Pd: The Philosophy
Pd: The Language
  • Pd vs. Pd-extended
  • Runs on anything, even Android and iOS
  • Free as in speech
Down and Dirty with Pd
  • objects, messages, comments
  • inlets and outlets, connecting objects and messages to each other
  • [pix_video], [pix_texture], [rectangle]
  • Show quickly [rotateXYZ], [sphere]
  • Interactive help with objects

10:00 - 10:30 Workshop 1: Baby's First Pd Video Patch

  • Work in pairs. Review what we did with this video
  • Add one cool thing: rotation, sphere...something else?
  • Can you add a filter? Project onto a teapot?

10:30 - 11:00 Lecture Schmecture 2

  • Combining messages
  • Adding filter
  • Slider, number box, dragging and shift-dragging
  • [cube], [rotateXYZ]
  • [line]
  • [bang(

11:00 - 11:30 Workshop 2: Learning to crawl

11:30 - 12:00 Final Project

  • Criteria: Do *something*, anything which
    • Incorporates live elements
    • Incorporates live or recorded video, audio
    • Uses Pure Data, Makey Makey, webcam
    • 3ish to 5ish minutesish longish
  • Ideas to consider
    • Performance?
    • What form does it have?
    • Are you demoing an idea or technique?
    • Is it an environmental sort of thing
    • Does it have a unique element?

We are going to show off some (all?) of final projects at the Wichita Mini Maker Faire

Afternoon (1:00 - 4:30)

Learn more Pd

hack up a cool Gem project

  • Demo the idea
  • Student work:
    • First individually
    • Then Groups of 2 (semi finals)
    • Then groups of 4 (finals)
  • Surf the 'net for cool Pd stuff
    • Groups of 2 (semi finals)
    • Then groups of 4 (finals)
  • service learning class

Optional Activities

  • write poetry or haiku with Pd
  • write mad libs with Pd

End-of-Day

Day 2

Morning

  • Zoom, Shwartz...

Example1: audio

  • Build 'A' with [osc~] and [dac~]
    • Show canvas help, then interactive object help
    • talk about tilde
    • keyboard shortcuts
    • inlets, outlets, creation arguments
  • Add volume control *~, number box
  • line~, snapshot~
    • audio streams (sig~) vs. control
  • bang~
  • add freq slider with line~
  • make a note

Example2: audio

  • audio scratcher
    • arrays
      • use [tabread] and [tabwrite] to show that it really is an array
      • substitute [table]

Afternoon

  • Intro Makey Makey
  • Video recorder/player
  • recording video from phone etc.

Day 3

Morning

  • Color tracking

Afternoon

  • Work session

Day 4

Morning

  • Work session

Afternoon

  • Presentations
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