[spectre] Interactive visuals workshop with Milkymist One and Arduino, Berlin Oct 1st

[Sébastien Bourdeauducq]

The Milkymist One is an open hardware live video synthesizer. Connect a 
camera and a videoprojector, press the power button, and seconds later, 
everything you film becomes live psychedelic effects of color and light. 
Point the camera at a dancer on stage, at people attending your party, 
at toys, use UV-glow paint… there are no limits to creativity! If no 
camera setup is available, the Milkymist One can produce purely 
generative effects which react to the ambient sound, making it an ideal 
option for music bands, clubs and party organizers who want a turnkey 
solution for simple visual effects. VJ’s will appreciate the possibility 
to design new visual effects using the Flickernoise Patching (FNP) 
language, which allows you to create unique and personal shows without 
requiring extensive experience with computer programming. And if you do 
program computers, you will certainly like the fact that the complete 
Milkymist One design is open source.

Arduino is an open source electronics prototyping platform based on 
flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, 
designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive 
objects or environments. It became very popular and people have 
developed an immense variety of sensory interfaces for the Arduino in 
the form of “shields”, along with software making them easy to use.

Join us in Berlin to enjoy the best of these two worlds. Bring your 
Arduino (and its shields), laptop (for programming the Arduino) and 
Milkymist One video synthesizer, and we will teach you how you can make 
the Milkymist One and the Arduino talk together to create interactive 
video installations. If you do not have those items, there will be a 
limited quantity available for lending at the workshop.

Some ideas of sensor shields to bring? Accelerometers, capacitive input 
sensors, potentiometers, joysticks, pressure sensors, Arduinome, and 
more! We could also help you assemble your own shield out of junk 
electronics (bring some!) at the workshop, if you want.
This workshop is kindly hosted by Betahaus, as part of the People in 
Beta festival lasting the whole day. You are invited to take a look around.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Sébastien Bourdeauducq is an inventor passionate about science, 
electronics and open source. After working for several small companies – 
which included developing the Wi-Fi driver infrastructure for the 
Nabaztag/tag – he founded Milkymist in the summer of 2007. The project 
combined his interest for the world of music with the desire to learn 
about and open up system-on-chip design, and it has now grown into a 
full-fledged open source project and commercial venture. Since 2011, he 
is also providing electronics engineering services for the CERN’s open 
hardware repository. Sébastien holds an engineering degree from Supélec 
and a MSc in SoC design from KTH. His hobbies include traveling, urbex 
and hackerspaces.

Fabienne “fbz” Serriere is a hardware person who likes spreading open 
hardware through hands-on workshops. She has worked on realtime low 
latency controllers for artists and musicians, massively multichannel 
audio, hardware reverse engineering, and open source hardware. In the 
past she has worked on writing hardware how-to’s for popular online 
publications. She organizes a yearly hands-on event for hardware called 
hardhack (http://hardhack.org). She documents her work on her personal 
blog (http://fabienne.us).

PRACTICAL INFO
Date: October 1st, 2011
Time: 14:00
Price: free, just drop in
Duration: 4 hours (but feel free to come and go)
Location: betahaus
Prinzessinnenstraße 19-20
10969 Berlin
U-Bahn: Moritzplatz

FOR MORE INFORMATION
See http://www.milkymist.org, http://www.arduino.cc and 
http://www.betahaus.de

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