Yeah! xDA’s first project!! Laser tagging flower ornaments :p

Enjoy

Code by V* (Victor Martins) using Processing.

Laser & projector hackery by Tony Gonçalves & Tiago Serra using CCV tracker

Also check some photos at Flickr

… stay tuned for technical specs and eventually perhaps some sourcecode.

Besides recently joining Flickr and Vimeo, xDA is now also present on twitter. Feel free to @xdatelier us

We’ve been working on quite a few projects here at xDA:
- Videos of the flower graffiti thing (premiered at BarcampPT Setembro 2009), should be coming up on vimeo sometime soon, we’ll dump here some links when it’s on, and hopefully a page about the setup of the project with nifty descriptions and schematics, and possibly maybe even some source code. Stay tuned.
- The xDA-TV webcam is now up and running, so you can stalk us more properly and all that jazz. Evil plans for remote control and lack of presence detection, autonomous demoshow wtf’ism are being debacled, wait for it.
- Baby steps on a new project concerning projection mapping with sms interaction are getting tested. Might take a while, might not.
- We’re also working on a demo for an upcoming demoparty early next month in Arles / France called Mainparty, which happens to have the biggest screen ever. Hope to finish it properly in time, looking quite decent so far.
- Also looking for places in Coimbra to organize open music jam sessions involving extreme circuit bending fuckery, 8bit dementia, post industrial abstraction and all that. Got any contacts?
- Last but not least, ideas have been bubbling to setup an open intraweb, offering wifi access to anyone and a server full of opensource tools, free creative commons content and an anonymous shared upload section. who needs internet when you’ll have a xDAnet to explore?

Os encontros do xDA já são oficialmente regulares: todas as Quartas, no Quebra Bar às 18:30. Com realocação para dentro do nosso espaço oficial (mesmo ali ao lado) para quem quiser trabalhar em projectos.

Estamos em contagem decrescente para o Barcamp PT Setembro 2009, que se realizará no Departamento de Informática da Faculdade de Coimbra (Polo II) já neste fim de semana (dias 12 e 13). Temos alguns projectos planeados em nome colectivo e individual.

Parece que é oficial, temos um espaço alugado para a xDA na zona do Quebra. Com apenas umas mesas, uma estante e promessas de cadeiras, pufs, acesso à internet e outras coisas mais. Agora só falta fazer projectos, e acabar o regulamento, e começar a marcar workshops, e trazer mais gente para se juntar à festa, e tratar do dossier para apresentar à câmara, e arrancar com a reciclagem de hardware, e tratar da apresentação para o barcamp, e planear outras actividades. Tudo a seu tempo. Primeiro as coisas importantes: alguém tem um frigorífico em estado funcional que aloje uma grade de superbocks que nos queira doar?