Technical Research / Skills Areas for 2007/8 - initial thoughts

Cocoa and Objective-C

In order to do further work integrating Serial, MIDI and Quartz Composer technologies, it is necessary to ‘get my hands dirty’ with some real programming; and although Processing etc. do provide excellent frameworks, being able to work with OS Xs frameworks has additional benefits. For example, there has recently been published a template for creating custom plugins for Quartz Composer (the visual technology I am most keen to develop with); perhaps it would be possible to create a Serial-In plugin for Quartz Composer; or one that allows Nodebox animations within QC.

Additionally, as any Cocoa / Objective-C application inevitably involves some C/C++ programming, this should help my understanding of these languages for use with programming Arduino / Atmega Microcontrollers

MIDI input and recording with Arduino

Arduino Forum - 'midi in" project….

The idea that I have for my final project (post more later) involves recording MIDI either directly on Arduino or onto another storage medium with an Atmega Microcontroller of some sort. This will obviously involve quite a lot of research into how to do this best

Positioning

Where is the work positioned? Who else is looking at these ideas / technologies? How does this build on the work that I have done already eg Histories and Futures - how does it extend that work?

(More later I'm sure!)