A beating heart in a jar
Kinetic sculpture produced at the Interactive Institute for the exhibition Man Machine 2 at the National Museum of Science and Technology (Tekniska Museet) in Stockholm. By artist Cristian Partos, Fredrik Bridell and Henrik Berggren.…
Last week I got loads of what looks like bounces for spam being sent with a sender address something@bridell.com. (Where something includes Largent-Coxwell, mosab.matza, porkwt, Ruquiyah_Hertel and other inventive aliases).
For anybody trying to track them down: I certainly did not send…
You’re this guy, or gal, somewhere where you have a crippled internet access. Probably for security reasons, somebody closed most of the outgoing ports in a firewall. You can surf, and use SSH.
These are some notes I made while trying to get a Java OpenAL (JOAL) application start from a web page. The tutorial applies to Java 1.4.2, but it probably works similarly in newer versions.
There are some things you need to…
Processing is a free, open-source programming environment based on Java and the weapon of choice for most people doing artistic productions that require a bit of coding. Get it at processing.org
Mobile Processing is a cousin of Processing, but aimed at mobile phones…
This refers to doing it on Windows XP – Vista is probably very similar.
Java is a programming language, but it’s also something called a virtual machine. The way it works is you write code – source code – in text…
I have a Java MIDP application, made with WTK, maybe using EclipseME or mobile processing. I want to run it on my Palm.
After digging into ways of doing this, I wound up running an application called jartoprc but it…
All you see is light
Interactive art piece with Arijana Kajfes at Interactive Institute (2004)
Monochromeye is part of a larger art driven project, occular witness, in which the artist Arijana Kajfes has been investigating properties of light as an artistic material and…
An interaction engine for hybrid realities
Interaction engine for multiuser interactive environments. Developed at the Interactive Institute 2003-2004.
The Multiuser Interactive Environment Language (MIEL) is an interaction engine developed at the Interactive Institute. I was part of the development theme (together with…
A paranoid web spider searching for the devil on the Internet.
Digital art piece produced at the Interactive Institute Smart Studio by Thomas Broomé, Fredrik Bridell and Olof Bendt. (2001)
Hellhunt contains a web spider, a computer program that goes to one…
Sharing a room with artificial creatures
Responsive environment made with the Interactive Institute Smart Studio, servo, and Pablo Miranda (2002)
The Interactive Institute Smart studio developed this piece in collaboration with servo, a research and development collective in the field of experimental…
When PD starts, audio is off, and you have to click the “compute audio” tick box. But what do you do when you want to start it automatically, like from a batch file?
The answer is, cryptically enough, “; pd dsp…
This is a little thing I made for artist Petra Vargova. It’s a home-made “shield” for the Arduino, i.e. this circuit fits on top of an Arduino board. (Indeed, it is sitting on top of an Arduino in the photo).
It’s…
I wrote this little Processing application I’d thought I’d share with you.
It opens a little window with a black circle in it. When you press a key – any key – whatever you press gets sent to your serial port.…
Stripboards (sometimes called veroboards) are typically used for prototyping electronic circuits. They have little holes, evenly spaced at 0.1 inches (yes, even in Europe – electronic components usually have their pins 1/10″ (0.254 mm) apart.
The image shows the soldering side…
I was in the electronics lab making a prototype and was just saying how I prefer the stripboards with links, where the solder points are connected in groups of three, rather than in strips that run the full length of…
Processing is an easy-to-learn programming language that is geared towards visual programs. It’s completely free and even completely open source. It is very easy to make simple things and still powerful enough to do some really interesting things. There are…
So, there I was, coding a little thing in Processing. I was just testing out this thing where the user could drag control points around in a window, and I just needed to make sure she didn’t drag them out…
A bare piezo element makes a really cheap force sensor .
This example uses two piezo elements, back to back, with an o-ring in between.
Solder wires to the piezo element, one to the center piece and one to the rim (or…
As you can see bridell.com is now a blog. Or at least, it’s powered by a WordPress blog.
I have no intention of becoming a famous “blogger” – all this means is that it’s now a little easier for me to…
