Python
Mashups have recently given rise to exciting new possibilities for SaaS research projects that are light on resources and heavy on assets. By combining existing research with open source tools, cloud computing and hosted solutions, researchers can limit costs, improve outcomes and spend less time coding.
This project by Tim Sherratt caught our eye for just these [...]
Client : Bonita Ely
Location : Jacaranda Square, Sydney Olympic Park.
Job type : Technical bridge.
Year : 2010.
Team : Rob Largent UNSW, Allan Giddy CoFA, Energy Australia
“Thunderbolt is a temporary public artwork created for the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
“Made from a recycled windmill found in Broken Hill, the nocturnal lighting of this [...]
There are a couple of patches outstanding that I’d like to include in the python-cwiid package. The first is support for the low speed flag for the wii motionplus gyro. This flag lets you know if the motionplus is using the slow or fast scale for its values.
Set up our build environment and get the [...]
The MCA crew asked us to help fix up a work by Louisa Bufardeci called From Ethnicities to Nations. The trouble was the Salient LED sign they’d acquired only stored about 1% of the actual artwork. The artwork consisted of 140000 phrases mapping peoples ethnicity to their nation of residence using the CIA factbook as source [...]
The py-usb 0.4.2 package does install on OS X. But you’ll need to install libusb first. If you are using Fink then all’s well. If you’re using MacPorts you’ll need to modify the setup.py
Install libusb from MacPorts
whale:pyusb-0.4.2 rossetti$ sudo port install libusb
Patch the setup.py file for pyusb-0.4.2
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> ‘-L/opt/local/lib’,
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< extra_compile_args = [...]
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Wade pulled together a small team to build a prototype semi-autonomous robot in a Victorian dress. Our job was to provide an interface between the web and the controller board. We installed a small webserver on an EeePC netbook. An Adobe Flash socket sent mouse clicks and speech instructions to a tiny Python server that [...]
In September we ran a complete slice test of a Bluetooth annotation system for the Sydney Olympic Park Authority. The aim is to annotate public artworks that scatter the site using Bluetooth instead of convention didactic panels (signage to the layman).
We used small form MicroClient SNR computers running Debian and some funky Python scripts. The [...]
In December the British Council asked us to do a wireless survey of the Rocks in Sydney. They needed to know that UK artist / gamesters Blast Theory could run their new game Rider Spoke in the area.