This weekend was wild on computer vision related stuff. Did some 3D scanning with Mónica Mendes using a well known vision technique called structured light. Pretty impressive results

“Structured light is the process of projecting a known pattern of pixels (often grids or horizontal bars) on to a scene. The way that these deform when striking surfaces allows vision systems to calculate the depth and surface information of the objects in the scene, as used in structured light 3D scanners.” — Wikipedia

code.google.com/p/structured-light/

more photos…

Pedro Ângelo and Mónica Mendes have been working hard on their B-Wind installation and it’s practicaly finished. They’ll be making a post about it but in the meantime check this preliminary photos:

more photos…

http://monicamendes.wordpress.com/category/b-wind/

Also, me, Catarina Mota and Joel Belouet worked on a pan-tilt mount for the PS3Eye camera on OpenScad. We’ll get the design out once we get it really polished, and post it to Thingiverse too. Once we do that you’ll be able to print it (on a 3D printed like our Makerbot) and have your own pan and tilt mount for your awesome computer vision app

You thought we we’re dead. But the nerds in black were never gone.

AZ Residency at Espaço Tempo has resumed it’s course on the 14th June 2010, and we’ve been kicking it real with some hardcore project dev for a whole week now! Our main aim is to get all of these projects kicking and screaming on the 12th July for the big opening of the exhibition.

Catarina and Joel have spent their week fidling with some heavy duty MakerBot 3d printing trial and error. In between random python re-learning fast courses. They managed to pull out some awesome hacks, such as a makerbot microscope to observe bacteria and printing a nutella jesus on a toast.

Random project quotes include:
“if you believe, it will work”
“how big should we make jesus?”
“there is a bug in your LED”
“we have scientifically proven that yoghurt is not printable”
“only two jesus toasts and already out of nutella”
“what kind of jesus do you want?”
“there is a guy coming by on monday to get a jesus on a toast”

Meanwhile Francesco and Mariana been hard at work on their ant tracking project. Marco drawing some more Suicide Girls for his secret projection art installation project. Ricardo working on his thesis. Pedro and Mónica working some more on the RTiVISS (Real-Time Video Interactive Systems for Sustainability) project. Vitor upgrading his version of Attic Tesla / Last Words of Domenico performance. Margarida working on her arduino based reactive robot.

Myself and Tiago arrived yesterday night and been hard at work in our own projects aswell. Me preparing a release version of Gen Haiku, helping out with the webdev side of things on the iCookie fast-hack project and conjuring some evil plans for world domination preparing a liveact for the opening day of the exhibition. And Tiago working on his bus GPS tracking system app.

Ever wanted to cook a cookie in a seamless stainless mould and couldn’t quite manage it? Well, we have the perfect solution for you, developed at our AZresidency, for only $499.99 per cookie. (plus postage and tax)

Now presenting, the iCookie.

Para celebrar o dia da cidade de Coimbra a Galeria Icone está a organizar o festival SITU’ARTE no pátio da inquisição. O xDA está à ajudar com projecções interactivas, um demoshow e possivelmente uma banquinha dedicada ao netaudio, portantos marquem na agenda e apareçam!