Joel and Dave playing with openframeworks and arduino
This weekend I went and took a 2-day workshop on openframeworks with Zach Lieberman and Theo Watson – the class was mostly a bunch of cool designers and artists from London – orgnanized by tinker.it at the Paddington Arts Center.
These are two great guys, trying to make Computer Vision and interactive art programming (and C++ more generally) easier to start with and use for everyday folks. openframeworks’ speed and open-source-ness make it an invaluable tool, potentially far superior to its non-free competitors. Zach and Theo are wonderful artists, astute thinkers and generous teachers and coders, and I consider the workshop to be a huge success – I will definitely be using openframeworks in the future, and I hope to be teaching it, too. I may even steal their line from the beginning of the class: “you are all officially adopted; we take teaching very seriously, and promise to help you in your work from here on out.”
Thanks everybody! Check out the openframeworks wiki if you want to read a bit more about it.
