Programmers are the wizards of our age. We weave the fabric of the modern society, tell the stories and bring dreams to life. Geeks are ruling the world of today and programmers make it all happen. The uninitiated marvel at what we accomplish without an inkling about how everything comes to fruition. Many centuries ago, musicians held a similar role in society but today they have lost that grasp on the world. Programmers are in an unprecedented position in which we can not only make a good living, but fuel our work with passion, creativity, collaboration, innovation, and forward thinking. Programmers can make a significant difference in a world that is truly our oyster, and that is worth celebrating. Recording for the slides from GeekOut 2013 on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/69631185

1. Programmers are way cooler
than musicians
Geert Bevin

2. Musicians narrate with sound

3. Programmers create new realities

4. Second Life

8. Burning Man Festival

9. Burning Man Festival

10. Burning Man Festival

11. Burning Man Festival

15. blink(1)

16. Open-source programmable USB Light

18. IFTTT + blink(1) = net bliss

20. Where’s Daddy?

21. Eigenharp

22. The most expressive electronic
instrument ever made

23. Expressiveness vs.Technology

24. The EigenKey

36. • 11 bits resolution over 0.9 mm of travel
• 400 nm of real resolution, which is the width of a bacteria
• Read at 500 μS, a 2 kHz rate per axis, a 6kHz rate per key
• Data rate is preserved from end to end

37. Data rate it preserved from end to end

38. That’s like a retina screen
for 3D touch sensors

39. The blank canvas

44. Create possibilities
Provide new rules
Don’t restrict

45. Multi-touch instruments
(or how different rules challenge protocols)

47. Per-note synthesis

48. Traditional MIDI designed for
31.25 kBaud ~ 1kHz of messages

49. High-speed MIDI ~ 400x faster

50. Eigenharp
iConnectMIDI
EigenD with
audio plugins
Firewire Audio Interface
USB Hub
Camera Connection Kit
USB Optical Audio
audio digital/analog
iPad
WaveGenerator, Animoog
expression data or MIDI

51. Total kludge to set up,
but opens an entirely new world

52. Time for protocols to change

53. Human body interaction

54. Human body interface

55. Leap Motion Controller

57. • 10µm of real resolution
• 5x less accurate than Eigenharp, 200x more than Kinect
• Adaptive sample rates: 60-300 hz, defaults to 120 hz
• Data rate is preserved from end to end

58. Latency just below gesture threshold,
barely noticeable

59. New interaction rules
New user interface
New protocols

60. 10 thousand free developer units

61. Figure out the possibilities together

62. Geco
Multi-dimensional MIDI expression through hand gestures

63. Think of medical applications

64. So much is going on!

65. Don’t be afraid
Experiment
Collaborate

66. Put the soul in a machine

67. Change the world