daniel shiffman

I’m pleased to announce that my new programming with Processing book will be released this August (by the end of the month). You can pre-order the book from Amazon, download a sample chapter from the web site, and, yes, even become a fan of the book on facebook (since that’s what all the [...]

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 [...]

The ITP Show finished up with some nice write-ups on the internets: ny times blog and MAKE.
About a week or so before the ITP show, my Big Screens class had their own show at the IAC Building on their rather large video wall. I’m hoping we set the world record for largest Processing sketch [...]

ITP Big Screens Testing Round 2 from shiffman on Vimeo.
Project credits: http:itp.nyu.edu/bigscreens/

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. [...]

ITP Big Screens @ IAC from shiffman on Vimeo.
My class went to test their projects on the IAC video wall this week. The works in this video are by Young Cho, Hye Ki Min, and Ji-Sun Lee. The pieces in the photos below are by Daniel Liss and Lucia Jeesun Lee. All 15 [...]

How to connect to Processing from a phone call:
http://www.shiffman.net/p5/asterisk

Calling Processing again from shiffman on Vimeo.
Going to write this up and publish the code (in conjunction with my Big Screens course) in the next couple days.

1-800-Processing from shiffman on Vimeo.

I’m pleased to announce that we’re releasing the first version of The Most Pixels Ever, an open-source Java framework for spanning Processing sketches across multiple screens (developed with Chris Kairalla). This is an early version that has many limitations and needs a great deal of improvement, but it does work. The site isn’t [...]