http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/2003/07/13/if-i-had-the-time/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:55:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/2003/07/13/if-i-had-the-time/#comment-86 lilly Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:43:30 +0000 http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/wordpress/?p=189#comment-86 I took their class three years ago. We built some shoes that responded to your jumps and kicks ("dancing") by altering the rhythms and dynamics of music. It was a fun class in that you chilled in lab with linux, basic stamps, accelerometers, and other sensors. And you weren't really prepared to do any of it. But I'd never really witnessed the connection between hardware, software, and hands before. Even if the software was occasionally buggy and they actually attempted to teach musicians C programming in one day. Eek. I took their class three years ago. We built some shoes that responded to your jumps and kicks (”dancing”) by altering the rhythms and dynamics of music. It was a fun class in that you chilled in lab with linux, basic stamps, accelerometers, and other sensors. And you weren’t really prepared to do any of it. But I’d never really witnessed the connection between hardware, software, and hands before. Even if the software was occasionally buggy and they actually attempted to teach musicians C programming in one day. Eek.

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