Ricksmuseum

Afgelopen weekend deed ik mee aan een META Workshop in Amsterdam. META staat voor Making-Electronic-Thingies- in-Amsterdam. De workshop onder leiding van Tom Schouten ging over het genereren van televisie signaal met behulp van de programmeertaal Forth en een PIC chip. Bekijk het filmpje voor een sfeerimpressie.

http://www.makingelectronicthingiesinamsterdam.nl/

Date: 26th-27th of May
Time: 10.00h - 18.00h.
Place: Steim

Subject: Forth TV
This workshop will stand in the light of the forth interpreter on the pic chip. Forth enables you to program your pic life and thus edit and see the changes in behavior right away. By learning to control tv tubes with forth this workshop will cover..

1. introduction forth, the forth toolchain.
1. interactivity, giving commands and updates to a live system
2. modularity, solve problems in pieces and interactive testing
2. technical applied,
1. electronic 2 bit DAC with resistors for 4 levels (sync,b/w,grey)
2. logic, PAL sync & stuff
3. software, interrupts (hsync timer) & multitasking
3. individual project, build some pic powered visuals with the knowledge gained.

Forth on Wikipedia.

Teacher: Tom Schouten
Tom Schouten is an independent software developer and artist based in Leuven, Belgium. His main interests are in generative systems, more specificly programs and devices that produce artistic works. His current efforts are concentrated on creating a series of special purpose programming languages. One of them is based on FORTH and runs on a pic microcontroller.
Tom at goto10

Participants:

1. Niels Wolf
2. Heerko van der Kooij
3. Marc Boon
4. Joost Broersen
5. Sylvain Vriens
6. Rick Companje
7. Kwon Byung Jun
8. Dirk van Oosterbosch
9. Jan-Kees van Kampen
10. Aymeric Mansoux
11. Pieter Heremans
12. Roger Muskee
13. Sander Trispel
14. Marloes de Valk
15. Bart Gloudemans

ForthTVCode produced during the workshop.

We released a brand new version of Globe4D and presented it at the great Laval Virtual 2007 Conference. This very special event in the west of France attracted over 10.000 people with all kinds of backgrounds: scientists, engineers, museum directors, school teachers, children from all ages, parents and grandparents.

Exhibiting at Laval Virtual gave us the opportunity to test our four dimensional globe on a really big user group. Thousands of people enjoyed playing with Globe4D and learned about the history of the earth. Their happy faces and the feedback we got from them were incredibly useful for us.

More good news is that Globe4D received two awards this week and got a special invitation for the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference 2007 in San Diego, California in August. We received one award in the category ‘Education and Virtual Entertainment’ and another one in ‘Emerging Technologies’.

The Globe4D team would like to thank Laval Virtual for the wonderful organization, the Laval School of Tourism for their help and support and all the friendly people we met during this week. It was a great experience!

Globe4D (Pays-Bas) Ce globe terrestre interactif apporte une toute nouvelle dimension à la découverte géographique, à la fois ludique et pédagogique.

Globe4D on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lavalvirtual/

Emerging Technologies Award for Globe4D at Laval Virtual 2007 (=invitation for ACM SIGGRAPH 2007, San Diego)

Photo Sébastien Kuntz

Education et Entraînement Award for Globe4D at Laval Virtual 2007

Photo Sébastien Kuntz

Movie

Danica, Nico and Globe4D

Het artikel over Globe4D dat op 24 oktober 2006 verscheen in NRC Next is hieronder digitaal na te lezen. Wouter Hylkema schreef het artikel, Leo van Velzen maakte de foto.

Globe4D is een project van Nico van Dijk, Danica Mast, Hanco Hogenbirk en Rick Companje

Lees verder…

De website van het Rijksmuseum en dus ook de tijdslijn waarop ik afstudeerde in 2004 is weer eens in de prijzen gevallen. Dit maal hebben we een GOOD DESIGNâ„¢ Award 2006 in de categorie Graphic Design in de wacht gesleept.

Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design announces the Museum’s annual GOOD DESIGNâ„¢ Awards for 2006 won by the world’s most prestigious industrial design firms and manufacturers in over 25 countries.

The Awards elevate the best and finest new design and design innovation for products and graphics designed and manufactured as of 2004 to the present.