Processing Code for MoteDaemon

MoteDaemon is a neat Mac OS X app that gets a Wiimote talking to Flash via a socket server, with which these guys have written Wiinstrument.

I have written some Processing (0135 beta) code to work with MoteDaemon v0.5 to get it to talk to Processing too. Download my code here. It works pretty well, but isn’t happy when the nunchuk (and I assume the joypad) are attached – think the xml gets too big to parse at once. That can be fixed.

There are several other solutions to getting a wii to talk to Processing.

Cheers,
Dave

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams…

Adam Curtis’ second film in the “The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams…” was shown on BBC 2 tonight. Television at it’s best.

There’s lots I need to think about – to what extent has democracy been replaced by the free-market? How do the metrics we use to “measure” behaviour determine behaviour?

I’ve heard it said that you can see the evolution of the microprocessor through the increasing complexity of architecture it allows, for instance the work of Frank Gehry. Similarly, have our models of human behaviour been necessarily simplistic and can we expect them to improve with increasing computing power? Or is this a flawed and dangerous endeavour?

I’ll give it all some more thought…

My Blog

OK, so this looks like everything is working now. I realised that although I hadn’t got a proper blog of my own, I had been contributing to quite a few different places, including: curiosity collective, wordpress, del.icio.us, flickr and youtube. So I thought I’d build something to bring them all together and create a blog from them all.

So I’ve built an application in Java to take all these different sources (from RSS) and create a feed with all my contributions together, while tidying it all up and adding extra tags. Using XSL and JavaScript I’ve then taken the combined RSS feed and rendered it as my blog. I’ll make all the code available shortly.

Cheers,
Dave