About the ControlP5 library

One of the most useful libraries in Processing is the ControlP5 library, a library that allows the addition of various control elements (sliders, buttons, toolbars etc) in a project. The library, written by Andreas Schegel, is by far the best interface library available in Processing at this point. Here is the link: http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/index.php While this […]

About the Oomlout.co.uk site

The www.oomlout.co.uk is a very interesting site. To begin with, they have an online shop where you can buy Arduino boards, shields and electronic components. Well, there are many sites that do exactly that. What’s interesting is that they’ve created a great Arduino Starter kit. This kit is the best kit I’ve seen around for […]

Open source hydrogen car

There is a fantastic article on the BBC News website, regarding a new hydrogen car: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8103106.stm There are way too many new designs in the market for hydrogen cars and I wouldn’t normally post anything about them. What I found interesting about this one, is the fact that the manufacturer is planning on making the […]

Processing & Arduino book reviews

During the past 12 months, I have gone through a few books on Arduino and Processing. In this post, I’m going to give you my thoughts on these books. I’ll go through the books in the order I read them, which is not unfortunately the same as the order I should have read them. You’ll […]

Image manipulation with Processing (part 3)

This is one more example of what can be achieved with Processing. The problem here is to create a pop-art image using the famous Andy Warhol format: the same image is re-produced 9 times; each time, a different 3 colour combination is used (one colour for the background, one for the black pixels of the […]

About Wordle.net

This is a very nice web tool, written in Java, that can create images like the one shown below, based on some text you provide. The image below was created on the fly, using the rss feed of this blog. I’m sure something similar could be written Processing, but it’s nice to know that there […]