Tech Stuff

Arduino

• Getting started with Arduino
• Arduino Introduction
• Arduino; behind the scenes

• Arduino Basics Workshop notes
• Arduino Basic Workshop extended

• Make a baremetal arduino

• Driving a motor with the L298N

• Arduino and Conrad relay modules at the Station
• Playing sound (with the MP3 shield) & pressure plates

A LIST OF HARDWARE YOU CAN USE FOR YOUR PROJECTS

BASIC HARDWARE

Resistors

Capacitors

SENSORS

• Capacitive sensing - trigger sound in MaxMsp
• Pressure/bend sensor
• Thermistor
• Keyes temperature sensor module

• Relay
• Optocoupler
• Adafruit Cap 1188 breakout
• Arduino & Pure Data communications

• How to connect Arduino and Processing

Command Line

• Command Line Useful Commands

Audio

• Playing sound (with the MP3 shield) & pressure plates
• aubio; useful tool for things like pitch tracking & beat detection
• A good introduction on the basics of audio synthesis
• Using a piezo element as a contact mic
• Hacking an mp3 player

Augmented Reality

• Augmented Reality tools - Feb 2021
• Unity and Vuforia Tutorials 2021
• Using Vuforia and Unity to make an AR app (old)
• Interesting Augmented Reality links

Circuit Making

• Digital Craft lab on making a simple noise circuit
• Javascript circuit simulator

DMX

• Using the DMX Dimmer Pack

Emotion Recognition

• Camera / sound emotion analysis
• Text sentiment analysis APIs

Internet of things

• Simblee
• Internet of Things
• Lora/Gateway
• Lora/shield

Kinect

• About the Kinect
• Getting the Kinect to work with Processing

Little Bits

• About the Little Bits
• The Arduino Module
• The Synth Kit
• Wireless fun

Makey Makey

• About the Makey Makey

Machine Learning

Convolutional Neural Networks

• YOLOv3
• DeepDream with Darknet

Generative Models

• DCGAN
• DeepFakes
• Pix2pix
• GauGAN
• VQGAN+CLIP

Reinforcement Learning

• Pong

Natural Language Processing

• RNNs with Darknet
• RNN
• GPT-2

Other themes

• Machine Learning links

Setup / Installation

• ML computers setup (2017)
• Nvidia Drivers and CUDA
• ML computers python
• ML computers tensorflow
• ML computers jupyter notebooks
• ML computers runway
• ML computers nvidia-docker
• Docker
• NVIDIA Jetson Nano installation

OpenEEg

• OpenEEG research

Plotters

• Processing plotter examples
• Chiplotle!, a python library for driving plotters
• Plotterturtle, a simple python module for converting turtle drawings to HPGL language
• HPGL, HPGL language commands
• usb serial driver for mac
• 4xidraw

Processing

• Getting started with Processing
• How to connect Arduino and Processing
• Getting the Kinect to work with Processing
• Making Android apps with Processing

Python

• Installing pip

Projection Mapping

• LPMT (free)
• VPT7 (free)
• Commercial packages with free demos a.o.: Resolume, Madmapper.

Web Scraping

• Web scraper addon for firefox
• Scrape and Fake
• Good tutorials on twitter scraping
• Twitter & Facebook scrape tutorials

Raspberry Pi

• Getting started with Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi on Lynda
• Raspberry Pi on Adafruit
• Raspberry Pi SD Cards and Images
• Fourteen year old Henry's tutorials
• Raspberry pi GPIO pins
• Beginners YouTube Channel
• You might need some Python
• Maybe some command line magic?
• Project tutorials
• Settings for connecting an rPi to eduroam
• RPi/datalogger
• Simple Line Printer interface
• Making a video installation with Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry_Pi_Streaming_Media_Server
• Raspberry Pi Camera Module

Silhouette Cameo Cutter

• Using the cutter by dummies for dummies

Video

• How to compress a large videofile - using quicktime conversion

Unity 3D

• Unity Tutorials from the Interaction Station

Virtual Reality

• Using the Vive Trackers in Unity
• About the Oculus Rift
• About Oculus Quest
• About GearVR
• About HTC Vive
• Tilt Brush
• qrVR - Quickly visualize & share 3D models in VR
• Version compatibility for Oculus Rift DK2 and Unity 5.x
• GearVR and Unreal 4
• GearVR and Unity

Web

• How to transfer a file via ftp
• Installing Mozilla Add-On SDK