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September 24, 2019 · 4:33 pm

Gathering my tweets from two days of thought-provoking presentations at #InsideOutsideNYU hosted at @NYUTandon and @NYUmakerspace…

I attended a great Inside/Outside symposium this week at NYU Tandon. Day 1 focused on INSIDE uses for 3D design and 3D printing technologies pertaining to the medical community. Day 2 focused on OUTSIDE uses for 3D designing and printing, like those found in architecture and building design. Besides my tweets (which I embedded below), you can explore the #InsideOutsideNYU hashtag on Twitter.

 

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November 10, 2018 · 2:07 pm

My incomplete notes from another awesome #CCFestNYC hosted at @ITP_NYU today! #STEMed #CSforAllNYC

#! /usr/bin/env python3
# Make an api call
####### install the needed modules #######
import json, requests
####### url vars #######
api_token = ‘*****my private token*****’
lat = ‘40.7128’
lon = ‘-74.0060’
print(url)
####### make api call #######
data = requests.get(url).json()
####### parse data #######
temp = data[‘currently’][‘temperature’]
wind_speed = data[‘currently’][‘windSpeed’]
print(temp)
print(wind_speed)

var chosenCaption;
var fontColor;
var fontSize;
var chosenFont;
var fonts = [“Helvetical”,”Impact”,”Courier”]
var captions=[“Words matter.”,”#LoveTrumpsHate”,”What, me worry?”,”All the feelz.”,”I woke up like this.”,”Nevertheless, she persisted.”]
var kid1;
var kid2;
var kid3;
var kid4;
var kid5;
var images;
var chosenImage;

function preload(){
kid1=loadImage(“DT1.jpg”)
kid2=loadImage(“DT2.jpeg”)
kid3=loadImage(“DT3.jpeg”)
kid4=loadImage(“DT4.jpg”)
kid5=loadImage(“DT5.png”)
}

function setup() {
createCanvas(400, 400);
images=[kid1,kid2,kid3,kid4,kid5];
pickRandom();
}

function draw() {
background(220);
image(chosenImage,0,0,width,height);
textFont(chosenFont);
textSize(fontSize);
fill(fontColor);
strokeWeight(3);
stroke(255);
text(chosenCaption,20,height/2,300,200);
}

function mouseClicked(){
pickRandom();
}

function pickRandom(){
chosenImage = images[floor(random(images.length))]
chosenCaption = captions[floor(random(captions.length))]
chosenFont = fonts[floor(random(fonts.length))]
fontColor = color(random(255),random(255),random(255))
fontSize = random(20,45)
}

 

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January 20, 2018 · 4:04 pm

My notes from #Learning2Teach hosted by @SFPC & @NYUtandon’s Integrated Digital Media and organized by @brain & @tchoi8.

I spent today at Learning to Teach hosted by School for Poetic Computing and NYU‘s Integrated Digital Media and organized by: Taeyoon Choi and Tega Brain. Here’s a description from the conference’s website:

Learning to Teach is a day-long conference for educators teaching computation in creative fields like art, design or digital humanities departments. Led by Taeyoon Choi (SFPC) and Tega Brain (NYU), the conference will feature keynotes by leading educators including Daniel Shiffman, Naomi Clark, Brad Garton. The keynote speakers will share their experiences teaching computer programming and related topics, their strategies for blending critical thinking, engineering, and inspiring creativity in a teaching environment. This year’s program will include a participatory session for attendees to observe the pedagogical strategies of their peers and develop teaching approaches of their own. Join us to explore the intersection of pedagogy and creative practice, and get ready for the year ahead.

Date: January 20th, 2018 (10am ~ 5pm)
Venue: Integrated Digital Media, NYU, 8th floor of 2 Metrotech Center. Brooklyn.
Organizers:School for Poetic Computation (SFPC), Processing Foundation and Integrated Digital Media, NYU (IDM).

Here are my notes (via my tweets) from the day:

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November 13, 2017 · 3:18 pm

Thanks to @Dfenjves, I can finally finish the @p5xjs code for #SingingFaces shared by @sofisagarcia_! #CCfestNYC #STEAM #ArtEdTech

Yesterday was another incarnation of CC Fest in New York City hosted at NYU ITP, and I’m proud to have attended all of their NYC-based events. It’s such an awesome, friendly, and welcoming way to delve into p5.js for both novices and advanced coders. [Per the p5.js website: p5.js is a JavaScript library that starts with the original goal of Processing to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators, and beginners.] CC Fest has recently launched in Los Angeles and may branch out to other cities. My friend Saber Khan (@ed_saber) is a founder and organizer of CC Fest and an incredible thinker, thought leader, and educator. On their website, CC Fest describes itself as:

A Celebration of Creative Coding for Teachers and Students
CC Fest is an opportunity for students and teachers to engage in creative coding. Come spend a day making interactive and engaging digital art with the p5.js library. Teachers will work on bringing p5.js projects to their classes. Students will learn the basics of p5.js and build their creative coding portfolios. Read about the first CC Fest at NYU ITP in October 2016. We hosted a second CC Fest at NYU MAGNET in Brooklyn in April 2017. And a third at UCLA in September 2017. Checkout the tweets at #ccfestnyc and #ccfestla.

After a keynote from Cassie Tarakajian (@hellothisiscass), there were two sessions of learning opportunities led by educators, designers, tinkerers, programmers, artists, and other awesome volunteers. For my first session, I joined Danny Fenjves to learn about integrating microphones to alter shapes (Danny is the founder of Upperline Code.) In this workshop, I finally learned the shockingly simple code necessary for making mouths open/close along with music, thus solving a mystery that has been troubling me since March! I loved the wonderful compilation of Singing Faces (see video at the top of this post) shared by Sofia Isabel Garcia at a previous #CCfestNYC in March of 2017. These animations were created by girls in Grades 4-12 taught by Sofia as part of Code/Art in Miami. I never understood how to get the mouth shapes to dilate and contract along to the music, and I am embarrassed to admit that I didn’t even try to locate a solution on my own. Thank you, Danny! Here are Danny’s shared links:
1. Starter code: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/p5-sound-base
2. Finished code: https://glictch.com/edit/#!/95-sound-1-solved
3. And here’s the code I wrote that helped me dilate an ellipse based on mic.Level:

var mic;

function setup() {
createCanvas(800, 600);
mic = new p5.AudioIn()
mic.start()}

function draw() {
var micLevel = mic.getLevel() * 400
console.log(micLevel)
background(20, 30, 150);
noStroke();
fill(255);
ellipse(width/2, height/2, micLevel, micLevel);
fill (0,255,0);
ellipse(100, 200, 40, 40);
fill(255, 0, 0);
ellipse(micLevel, 300, 75, 75);
}

For the second session, I attended Serena Parr’s introduction to creating a Photobooth with p5.js using video capture from your camera’s webcam. It was awesome and made even more fun since I sat with three amazing ladies who inspire me daily with their ideas, insights, prototypes, and creative solutions: Maureen Reilly (@MaureenrReilly, Erin Riley (@eeriley99), and Tracy Rudzitis (@wagongrrl)! Serena’s super fun session helped me feel so much more comfortable about exploring Processing and p5.js libraries for more filters. Here are Serena’s shared links:
1. Serena’s presentation: bit.ly/photoboothsITP
2. Serena’s button photobooth program: bit.ly/buttonBoothITP
3. Serena’s emoji photobooth code: bit.ly/emojiBoothITP
4. Here’s Erik Nauman’s code for a Photobooth! Thanks, @openblackboard: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-IMQ38H3Y5GQJF6rGVfSItE7dXezlrzEWBYASeOXPTI/edit
5. And here’s my code for the project:

var capture;
var button;

function setup(){
createCanvas(320, 240);
capture = createCapture(VIDEO);
capture.size(320, 240);
button = createButton(‘Say Cheese’);
button.mousePressed(takePic)
capture.hide();
}

function takePic(){
image(capture, 0, 0, 320, 240);
// filter(‘INVERT’);
}

function draw(){
// background(255);
}

I had to leave after the second session and missed out on the sharing at the end of the day and the closing keynote by Todd Anderson (@toddwords).Here are some of my tweets from the day (I was too busy learning and shmoozing to share more):

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