daniel shiffman

Big Screens Class @ IAC, Session 2 from shiffman on Vimeo.

Rob Faludi and I are working on a Processing library for Digi’s XBee Series 1 radios. Direct from Rob’s blog:
The library currently facilitates receiving single sample I/O packets in API mode, and returns an object that contains the analog values, digital values, sender’s 16-bit address and RSSI value. The next tasks will be to [...]

While it may not be nearly as kooky as calling Processing on the phone, I’ve been asked about checking e-mail from Processing several times this semester. So rather than try to dig up example code on the internets, I’ve quickly thrown together one that checks a POP account and/or sends mail via SMTP. [...]

IAC Video Wall Day 2 from shiffman and Vimeo.

IAC Video Wall Test from shiffman and Vimeo.
We’re testing the most pixels ever library on the IAC Video Wall. So far it works.
More to come in the next two days. . .

Now, I am rather overdue for an update on my upcoming book. I’ll be posting details soon. However, in the course of finishing up a chapter on String parsing, I discovered that my good friend, the Google SOAP API is no longer being supported (obviously, I’m a little late on the ball [...]

We have lift-off for airport-related puns!
Terminally bored? You won’t be, with digital art by Nadja Sayej, The Globe and Mail.
Airport art: Multi-screen, interactive digital art exhibition connects travellers with a disconnected world at Terminal One by Peter Goddard, Toronto Star
Terminal Zero One Touches Down at Pearson by Adam Schwabe, blogTO

From: http://qrcode.sourceforge.jp/:
“QR Code is a two-dimensional barcode, used widely in Japan. The advantage of QR Code from well-known barcode is larger data capacity (more than 100 bytes, typically) and error correction.”
Thanks to an idea from Tom Igoe, I make a quick and dirty interface for Processing for QRCode decoding. The Pqrcode library page is [...]

My 2002 (my goodness, that’s 5 years ago!) piece Swarm is part of Right click – Open source new art media exhibition at the Kapok gallery in Hong Kong. Swarm uses an implementation of Craig Reynolds’ flocking algorithm and the Processing source is available in my nature of code tutorials. The [...]

I’m working on an interactive kiosk for the Toronto Airport, part of Terminal Zero One. Two early sketches:

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