Close xcode

You should be able to find the file xode created in
/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Application Support/Xcode/Key Bindings
for me it is called Patrick.pbxkeys

Edit this file with the property editor.
From the view menu select :
Show Strings as Non-lossy ASCII

Add 2 children as follows

Save, and open up xcode

ctrl+shift+uparrow should now duplicate the current line upwards
ctrl+shift+downarrow should now duplicate the current line downwards

happy coding

I the wrote a simple sketch in Arduino:
Waiting for the character s on the serial-in and then setting pin 2 to HIGH for 1250 milliseconds, enough for the camera to focus
even when using the flash.

int outPin =  2;
 
void setup(){
Serial.begin(57600);
pinMode(outPin, OUTPUT);
}
 
void loop(){
checkSerialInput();
}
 
void checkSerialInput(){
if (Serial.available() > 0) {
// get incoming character:
char serialChar = Serial.read();
 
if (serialChar == 's'){
//shutter
digitalWrite(outPin, HIGH);
delay(1250);
digitalWrite(outPin, LOW);
}
}
}

I then figured that it would be nice if I could take the picture if I smiled at the camera.
Since I can’t loop the image from the eos 400d back into my mac, I used the webcam instead.

I found that someone else had already done “smile” recognition in openframeworks using opencv.
I just needed to add some lines to set up the arduino and write an ‘s’ to the serial port. And presto.
Smiling at the webcam took my picture.

Here’s the xcode project:
SmileAndClick

Raw microphone access in Air 2.0

http://theflashblog.com/?p=1426

After a succesful test, I quickly hacked a swf-module that could be loaded into version 2 of the Ukulele Chord Finder ( version 1 can be found at http://www.ukulele.nl ) that we have under development.
So now we can talk to Merapi Straight from the browser.

I also managed to turn the Java Side of the Merapi-Bridge into a Mac application.
So here’s a video of the things I made.

[See post to watch Flash video]

I got myself a max7221 IC and hooked it up to the arduino board.
I’m now thinking of good way to wire the 4*16 matrix
basically a 8×8 matrix but the physical postion of the odd rows is behind the even rows.
Designing this matrix on a breadboard sucks (too many wires), so I need to come up with a better way without soldering.  (suggestions welcome)

Here’s the though: what if ?:
I could build a Ukulele that shows the fingering of the chords ON THE UKULELE!
And even have it sync to the chords shown on screen?

What do you think, wouldn’t this be a cool Merpai/Arduino/Ukulele project?

So I got an arduino-board and custom shield, a java-application that connects to the serial port on one side and to an Air-app on the other via the Merapi Bridge. The Air app gets an average color from the center of a webcam image and sends it to the java, which in turn sends the number (color) to the serial port. That’s all.

I do need to tweak some stuff, so that there’s less jitter.

[update]
More on the Arduino – Livingcolors shield can be found here : http://static.knutsel.org/kits/CC2500_Arduino_Shield_v03/ (in Dutch).

[See post to watch Flash video]

Create a context menu, for instance to go fullscreen.
Make sure it works.

Now add a Video Object, attach a cam (or play  an flv– more work
and right click on the video object to show the contextmenu…
now select fulscreen…. and nothing happens

I can’t get this to work. It only fails if I rightclick on a videoobject..

Any thoughts?

When you start a new project you can do the following: Before you do “New ActionScript Project” create a folder structure where you will put your project somewhere in your workspace dir create a folder for your project. I like to add a “src” subdir as a sourcefolder so I can put this folder into subversion. next create a subdir for your package. So it might look something like this:

Then go to flexbuilder a create a New ActionScript Project: using the folder we’ve created as the location and click Next

On the next screen make sure you’re pointing to the right source dir (src in my case) Now comes the tricky part If you try to locate the Main Application file using the Browse button, you won’t succeed. Just type in the correct path.. so: mypackage/TestMainclassPath.as

The Second way is to create your Project as normal.
Move your Main Class File to the correct (package) dir.
Close Flexbuilder.
Edit the .actionScriptProperties file in the ProjectDir
and set the

tag to the correct location.

Happy Coding,

Ow and Colin.. (and OReilly) thnx for the Prize.

I’m a Doctor Jim, Not an Actionscript3 Programmer..