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Dev8D: Lightning Talks: Brain band

jcresswell — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:05:33 +0000

A part of the lightning talks strand, the ‘brain band’ was shown off to demonstrate how mind control can be used to interact with computers. Find out a little bit about how it works in this short video…

Dev8D: Code is poetry

jcresswell — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:46:40 +0000

We’ve already explained the badges system at Dev8D: and one of the more unusual achievements is for writing a poem…

Mark J – Coding Haiku
Code is poetry Sometimes it is full of bugs Then it is blank verse
Jack F – Github
var limerick = (function() { return "The code I write is quick It's really really slick I jumped into Vim Implemented a HTML 5 shim And now I don't look quite so thick" })();

Nick J – A fork of Jack F’s… – Github
var limerick = (function() { return "The code that I write is quite quick Most people say it's really slick I jumped into Vim Made a HTML shim And now I don't look quite so thick" })();

Julian C – Ruby Poetry – Github
class Roses def self.colour(*) end end


class Violets

  def self.colour(*)

  end

end
class Sugar

  def self.flavour(*)

  end

end
class I

  def self.love(*)

  end

end

Roses.colour("#FF0000") Violets.colour("#0000FF") Sugar.flavour == "sweet" && I.love("you")

Jonathan C and Julian C
10 print "Hello, poem!" 20 goto 10

Dev8D: How to make a touchtable

jcresswell — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:01:05 +0000

Think iPad – and then think bigger. In this quick session, find out how with a projector, a Playstation Eye, some infrared LEDs, photographic film and a few other bits you can make your own touch table, relatively inexpensively.

Dev8D: An Apple a day…

jcresswell — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:41:23 +0000

We’ve noticed that there an awful lot of Apple computers around the Dev8D basecamp – but we found one which isn’t exactly what it seems…

Nice try.

Dev8D: Open Sessions: Text games

jcresswell — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:10:42 +0000

Ben O’Steen, organiser of the open sessions at Dev8D, explained how he got in to writing text games – in ‘normal English’.

Watch the video to see how the software works and Ben talks through an example Dev8D-themed game.

Dev8D: Project Zone: Arduino Introduction

jcresswell — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:34:52 +0000

As part of the core skills strand, Gary Bulmer led an interactive workshop in Arduinos: a popular, low-cost microcontroller which makes working with electronics and programming accessible.

Watch the video to see a bit of what happened in the workshop and hear from Gary Bulmer about why the Arduino is a good way to get started.