Art + tech public conversations through Arduino Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino CEO & Co-Founder of Tinker.it! May 7th 2009

Tinker.it! we build interactive installations for events, public spaces, retail environments,museums… www.tinker.it

We use Arduino a cheap,open source platform for learning electronics the easy way. www.arduino.cc

About page Developed in academia in Italy in 2005 Sold around the world (60 000 units) Manufactured in Italy

We train artists designers, architects, software developers, web developers on how to use Arduino in their work.

What? convert things that happen in the real world into things on screen or other things in the real world and now things online.

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Hardware + Software

Arduino Ethernet shield Arduino Mega Arduino Mini Arduino Lilypad

Hardware + Software

PureData (or Pd) is a graphical programming language developed by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works.

Quartz Composer is a visual programming language provided as part of the development environment in Mac OS X for processing and rendering graphical data.

VVVV is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously.

Processing an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions.

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Thanks! www.tinker.it www.tinker.it/newsletter arduino.cc Getting Started with Arduino - Massimo Banzi Making things talk - Tom Igoe