Florida Creatives - Creating a Community of Innovation

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commandN is one of the premier video podcasts in the world, not to mention one of the longest-running. In a recent episode, they featured a short documentary about a Hackfest in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Held at a Coworking space in Halifax called The Hub, a group of designers, programmers and marketers gathered to create small applications for entertainment, social connections, and creativity. The apps are then sold on the iTunes store, with all benefits going to charity.

The segment, from commandN episode 214 is called "Spotlight", and it starts about 5 minutes in to the video:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monome

Monome is a small hardware company based in the Catskills that makes controllers for electronic music performance and new media art. Their first product, the 40h, is an eight-by-eight grid of backlit buttons which connects to a computer using a USB cable and the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol. Originally developed as an open ended performance interface for electronic music, its developers have said "The wonderful thing about this device is that it doesn't do anything really,"[1]. As a result, developers have begun to use the Monome as an interface for other types of software, from text displays to games.

The word "Monome" is also often used as a name for the various devices that Monome produces.

http://monome.org/

Welcome to Monome from sam_square on Vimeo.

What is a monome? Monomes are fun to watch, but what is actually going on?

I was cruising the MakerShed (Make Magazine's store) and I saw this really cool kit. You can make your own synthesizer with 2 full octaves of keys. Think about it.

You also need an Arduino (direct link) to use this at all, which is useful for so many other things.

We are FAMiLab, a hackerspace in west Altamonte Springs. We have a temporary wiki-site up at http://familab.org/. If you are unfamiliar with the hackerspaces concept, we are a non-profit public organization structured to model a Direct Democracy with a small memberbase.

as seen on myspace:

I will circuit bend your stuff for 20$ plus cost of parts. you want an 8 bit sampler that has rec. save play loop and tweek 40$ i make you one. hey i dont have cds to sell and i need some money to finance my remote controle republican. so send a message if you are interested.the sampler in the video is 80$ the casio fat tank is 20$ the scary monster is 80$the noisy blue thing is 20$

Location

BarCampOrlando is back and is going to be bigger and better than ever. The Orlando Scene has quickly proven it can put on one of the premier BarCamp events in the US, and quite possibly the world.

BarCampOrlando is a 1 day 'unconference' offering all attendees the opportunity to share their knowledge by giving short talks on ANY subject. This year we will have 3 different rooms to showcase the participants and sessions of different lengths to accommodate more content then you can shake your marshmallow stick at.

BarCamp by it's nature has no schedule, no keynote speaker, and no main topic of conversation - the participants decide the who, what, how, why and when - we just pick the where!

Please register for the event so we can plan accordingly!

P.S. BarCamp may still be looking for sponsors - any amount will be accepted. We have a "fill in the blank" sponsorship available for those who can't swing $100 or $300, as much as they might like to.

WiiToMidi allows you to convert signals from a Nintendo Wii controller to MIDI signals. It is a Cocoa application for Mac OS X and uses the DarwiinRemote WiiRemote framework to decode Wii controller signals. It also supports the Nunchuk controller.

I was going to stop with the first video, but this next guy's video was just too funny. All tutorials should be like this, instead of all these YouTube videos with a silent pair of hands. I want to buy this guy a beer.

A birds-of-a-feather meetup for hacking, MAKErs, TED talks, and having fun with electronics at BarCampTampaBay with Matt:

The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk

For folks doing procedural or interactive graphics, interactive art installations, homebrew games, people who read MAKE Magazine, and folks who just want to see what we're cooking up.