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“We are extremely pleased to publish the very first release of Fritzing, the 0001 Alpha!

This release gives you a very early glance of what Fritzing will enable you to do, so please give it a spin and let us know what you think. It obviously still has a lot of rough edges and might cause some aesthetical pain, but you can already do the whole process from wiring up a little circuit and exporting it to an Arduino shield PCB.

So enjoy it the way you enjoy meeting a new friend: Please say hello at http://fritzing.org/download.”

mario explored arduino’s native capacitive sensor capabilities. this functionality is normally achieved by qtouch sensors. he developed some code that recognizes finger’s touching cables at digital port 8 to 13 without additional hardware.

arduino playground

this semester’s goal of my course “experimentelle interfaces” was to redesign everyday objects as data interfaces in order to create an “augmented reality of things”. the results of my student’s projects are now online:

http://gestaltung.fh-wuerzburg.de/blogs/exint_ws06/?cat=20

several people are working on drivers for nintendos Wiimote. i wrote a speedhack to use hiro’s DarwiinRemote with Processing.

i simply modified DarwiinRemote to write out a textfile with the values of the accelerometer and the orientation of the Wiimote.

there is an pde in the archive and the modified version of DarwiinRemote in the data folder. start DarwiinRemote, connect the Wiimote and then run the pde.

that’s only to start working with the Wiimote. i hope someone will write real drivers for the device soon.

JarwiinRemote for Processing on OS X (binary)
JarwiinRemote for Processing on OS X (source)

i am giving two lectures this semester: “experimental interfaces: everyday interfaces” for the graduate students and “interactive media basics” for the undergraduate students.