Chandler McWilliams's Barbarian Blog

John Henry von Neumann at Machine Project

chandler@barbariangroup.com(Chandler McWilliams) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:02:19 -0400

I’ll be performing my piece John Henry von Neumann at Machine Project from 10-6 on Sunday June 28th. Come watch me compete against a computer to complete a drawing in an eight-hour workday. I will use pen and paper while the computer uses a plotter. More info on the Machine Project site.

iPhone Workshop at Machine Project

chandler@barbariangroup.com(Chandler McWilliams) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:02:18 -0400

I’m teaching a 4 day intensive workshop on iPhone development at Machine Project. The course is designed to be a good introduction to Xcode, Objective-C and making real-world applications for the AppStore. We won’t cover the basics of programming, so some programming experience is required. The workshop starts July 5th and meets 4 times. For more info check [...]

Audio issues in Processing on Leopard

chandler@barbariangroup.com(Chandler McWilliams) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:02:20 -0400

A few of my students have run into an issue where the right speaker is distorted when playing audio through Minim or Sonia. After much googling we found a somewhat convoluted solution: 1) Go to Applications / Utilities and open Audio MIDI Setup. 2) In the drop-down labeled “Properties For” choose “Built-in Line Output.” 3) Under “Audio Output,” [...]

Parrot text-to-speech library for Processing

chandler@barbariangroup.com(Chandler McWilliams) — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:02:20 -0400

A student in my Programming Media II class wanted to use some text-to-speech for a project, so I created a processing library that is a light wrapper around Apple’s Java API for accessing the speech engine. The library allows you to set the current voice and speak away. Of course, its mac only. You can get [...]

Passing arguments to Processing sketches

chandler@barbariangroup.com(Chandler McWilliams) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:02:18 -0400

I recently received an email asking about how to pass arguments when launching a processing sketch from the command line. I hadn’t ever done such a thing, but after some poking came up with an easy, though not exactly robust, solution. This example sets the value of the r, g, and b variables and uses [...]