[PD] PD, arduino and sharp range detectors

2008-10-30 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi All, We are having trouble with a PD - Arduino - Sharp IR gp2d12 IR range sensor. everything works for a while, then the arduino just stops and sometimes takes PD down with it. once we had a warning from the OS that there was too much current being sucked on the USB port. we are

Re: [PD] PD, arduino and sharp range detectors

2008-10-30 Thread Tim Boykett
that seems to be the case! thanks tim On 30 Oct 2008, at 17:41, Martin Peach wrote: Tim Boykett wrote: We are having trouble with a PD - Arduino - Sharp IR gp2d12 IR range sensor. everything works for a while, then the arduino just stops and sometimes takes PD down with it. once

[PD] pix_record and long periods of inactivity

2008-10-17 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi All, another strange property of pix_record. I have been using it to record small clips fine, but now that I have started looking at better quality recording, especially the DV_PAL codec, I have found that I get some problems, I think related to auto usage. the simplest form is: Turn

[PD] looking for a Workshop person - Arduino, etc

2008-10-07 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi PDers, a friend from the local arts university student union has asked me whether I know of someone who could do a workshop on the Arduino and using it with Max and/or PD. The workshop should happen this semester (up to Feb 2009) for two days or so. The Uni is in Linz, Austria. There is

[PD] arduino and bluetooth

2008-03-26 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi Arduinoids, I am using the arduino object with a normal (non bluetooth) Arduino board. When I start up, however, something (I think maybe the comport object) tries to connect with my phone (as a bluetooth device) and the PD patch with the arduino object will not appear until I have said

Re: [PD] arduino and bluetooth

2008-03-26 Thread Tim Boykett
. [arduino] defaults to device 0. Use the [devices( message to list the available devices. Then use the number of your arduino as an arg. On mine, it is [arduino 4]. .hc On Mar 26, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Tim Boykett wrote: Hi Arduinoids, I am using the arduino object with a normal

Re: [PD] [OT] Bass driver unit

2008-01-08 Thread Tim Boykett
dear bass-fetishists, There are some available from pollin.de that we used, order number 630 104 costing 5 euros per piece. not the best in the world, but quite okay.. tim On 08/01/2008, at 1:44 PM, hard off wrote: i can't help you either, but i once saw photos of a system that could

Re: [PD] RIP Stockhausen

2007-12-11 Thread Tim Boykett
and even on flickr he is hard to focus on - is that art or science? or is he simply between the layers of focus? neither nearfield nor infinitely distant. only time (or periods, or phases, or whatever term he would be using) will tell. tm On 11/12/2007, at 1:16 AM, beau wrote: He'll be

Re: [PD] control-click in edit mode is gone

2007-12-05 Thread Tim Boykett
On 04/12/2007, at 6:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: My intention is to fix Pd to allow direct copy and pasting in object boxes so we can ditch the Text Editor all together. hear hear! this is one of the elements that keeps frustrating people I introduce to PD. splat-V in an object box

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Tim Boykett
Of course we should then the whole way and allow general splines as patch cords like in . much sexier. not even worth 2c tm On 05/12/2007, at 2:36 AM, Chris McCormick wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 06:29:00PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: Btw.: Even many Max users prefer non-segmented

[PD] arduino pd os x bluetooth

2007-11-28 Thread Tim Boykett
I found that there were some people interested in getting Bluetooth Arduinos working with PD a few months ago. Anyone care to share the results of their experiments? We are currently looking at it and having no luck what so ever. There seem to be no online suggestions as to what our nonsuccess

Re: [PD] arduino pd os x bluetooth

2007-11-28 Thread Tim Boykett
On Nov 28, 2007, at 6:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 7 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:00:25 +0100 From: Tim Boykett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PD] arduino pd os x bluetooth To: pd-list@iem.at Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format

Re: [PD] who is using [entry]?

2007-11-14 Thread Tim Boykett
hi all, maybe a silly question, but: might it be feasible to use something like tk_text as the name so as to make it obvious which one is being used without having to fight with the namespace issues? this has probably been discussed to death in the namespace conversation a few months ago

Re: [PD] gem color bug

2007-10-25 Thread Tim Boykett
on my G4 laptop the problem is there. so it is not just MacIntel. I have an ATI graphics card, if that is relevant. tim On 25/10/2007, at 1:35 PM, Jack wrote: I have the same problem. I think that [pix_alpha] has a bug somewhere with MacIntel. On my other computer (PowerPc), no problem.

Re: [PD] gem color bug

2007-10-25 Thread Tim Boykett
(laptop) with GeForce FX Go5200 – Macosx.4.10 – Pd version 0.39.3- extended – Gem 0.91-cvs But i remember i have some problems with [pix_alpha] on MacIntel (Imac and G5) : the black or the white or maybe the transparency (i can't remember) became blue. Jack Le 25 oct. 07 à 13:56, Tim Boykett

Re: [PD] [PD-dev] openpanel length limit on OSX and linux / Testing latest release

2007-10-18 Thread Tim Boykett
bigger strings. I'll go on and chance my copy to use MAXPDSTRING there, just to see what that will break :) M On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:47:07PM +0200, Tim Boykett wrote: To clarify: The file I want is: /Volumes/WORKGROUPHARBOUR/Projects/ShortTermDoc/Code/VideoFiler/ 20071004/test1-1.mov

Re: [PD] a general discussion about which software to learn: pd, max, both... or else?

2007-10-15 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi David, it also depends upon who you are working with. I tend to work with PD for a number of reasons, however most of my colleagues are Max people who, for a number of reasons, will not be learning a second language any time soon. This is not really a problem as both systems can do most

Re: [PD] [PD-dev] openpanel length limit on OSX and linux

2007-10-04 Thread Tim Boykett
checked to see whether symbols has a maximum length of 80 char or so, but it does not seem to be the case. That is what I meant by my last comment. Anybody know how I might get around this? Cheers, tim On 04/10/2007, at 5:17 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Tim Boykett wrote

[PD] pix_record problems

2007-09-20 Thread Tim Boykett
Hello Gemmers, I have been using pix_record for a small development and it seems that there are two problems, one for each development environment :-) Problem 1: Linux: debian. I can happily record a movie (but only using the uncompressed raw format) but once I close it and try to record a

Re: [PD] pix_record problems

2007-09-20 Thread Tim Boykett
On 20/09/2007, at 4:17 PM, chris clepper wrote: On 9/20/07, Tim Boykett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem 2: on OSX there are no codecs - I have had this working but now the codeclist message gives me a series of null codecs. so I cannot record anything! Your version was probably compiled

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-22 Thread Tim Boykett
I plan to update the help file for pix_video before hans gets the next extended out the door. cheers, tim On 22/08/2007, at 9:58 AM, Olivier Heinry wrote: Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 22:49 +0200, Tim Boykett a écrit : Apologies for a slight stuff up, The suggestion I made here, I now notice

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-21 Thread Tim Boykett
/08/07, Tim Boykett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kids! Time for a new adventure. I would like to have a working firewire camera input for manipulation in Gem on a linux box that is sitting here purring at me. The cam works fine with Kino and dvgrab, so the linux-firewire connection is all

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-21 Thread Tim Boykett
Apologies for a slight stuff up, The suggestion I made here, I now notice deep in the source, has been made. with the message |device /dev/dv1394/0( to pix_video I could have made this work all those days ago. Cheers, tm On 21/08/2007, at 10:28 PM, Tim Boykett wrote: to have special

Re: [PD] shell script for ieee1394 on debian

2007-08-20 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi Olivier, I seem to be having the problem again that some paranoid program is snipping off the dv.sh script because it might contain a virus! Did you mean the following script: mkdir -p /dev/ieee1394/dv/host0/PAL mknod -m 666 /dev/ieee1394/dv/host0/PAL/in c 171 34 mknod -m 666

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-15 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi Georg, Thanks for your reply. When you say quite some time ago when was that approximately? I see that in Dec 06 Ico Bukvic was having the same problem, but the thread stops on the PD list. Anyway, I tried your suggestion. When I try this I get Bad argument for message 'driver' to object

[PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-14 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi Kids! Time for a new adventure. I would like to have a working firewire camera input for manipulation in Gem on a linux box that is sitting here purring at me. The cam works fine with Kino and dvgrab, so the linux-firewire connection is all well. But I am having no luck with pix_video or

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.39.2-extended-rc2 released! OSX issues

2007-06-07 Thread Tim Boykett
It is getting so much easier: working with a bunch of people who do not want to be challenged by operating system weirdness, the PD-extended releases are helping lower the barrier. We are constantly up against the options Max//PD and the PD option is definitely the ugly little sister; she is

[PD] ieee1394

2007-06-07 Thread Tim Boykett
Hello PDPers, I have seen that the ieee1394 capture objects in PDP are working. So ow the other way: is there some way to have a ieee1394 output object? chrz, tm ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.39.2-extended-rc2 released!

2007-06-06 Thread Tim Boykett
is in another library that I should be loading? tm On 05/06/2007, at 4:24 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Oops, also, you could try pdp_yqt instead of pdp_qt. .hc On Jun 5, 2007, at 5:12 AM, Tim Boykett wrote: Just downloaded and tried this (copied midr-mjpeg.mov to the desktop

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.39.2-extended-rc2 released!

2007-06-06 Thread Tim Boykett
On 06/06/2007, at 12:33 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:16 +0200, Tim Boykett wrote: . Is it possible that the pdp_yqt object is in another library that I should be loading? afaik, [pdp_yqt] is part of pidip, not of pdp. Aha! thank you for that, I guessed it might

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.39.2-extended-rc2 released!

2007-06-05 Thread Tim Boykett
Just downloaded and tried this (copied midr-mjpeg.mov to the desktop) and got: pdp_qt: opening /Users/tibo/Desktop/midr-mjpeg.mov pdp_qt: video stream found (320x240 pixels, 12 fps, 169 frames, mjpa codec) pdp_qt: audio stream found (1 channels, 22050 Hz, 309399 samples, chunksize 1837)

[PD] gem based multi headed media player

2007-06-04 Thread Tim Boykett
hi, has anyone had any experience using (multiple) gem(s) to output several videos simultaneously on a multiheaded (linux) box? the questions that arise as we ponder this is how much CPU gets used to decode the video, how much to render, how much the graphics cards can take away effort from

Re: [PD] Arduino to PD Re: PD-list Digest, Vol 26, Issue 149

2007-05-30 Thread Tim Boykett
We are having a lot of success with the Firmata connection. Very easy, quite reliable. I thouroughly recommend http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Firmata for any and all simple arduino - PD connections. tim On 30/05/2007, at 8:00 PM, kent straub-jones wrote: Arduino2PD So I am

Re: [PD] opencv motion tracker external HELP!

2007-05-29 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi Alain, wouldn't it be a lot easier to take the system that you already have and use OSC or FIDO to send the values (that you were printing) to PD for further processing? I am greatly in favour of using different systems for different jobs and letting a protocol like OSC or fido (netsend)

Re: [PD] [SPAM?] [LOW] problems with pix_record?

2007-05-25 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi, remember, pix_record only records the pix in the chain. so if you are trying to record images of some geometrical objects, you need to use e.g. pix_snap to get a pix image of those geos and then record that using pix_record. I also noticed that pix_record seems to record wanting a yuv,

Re: [PD] [SPAM?] [LOW] fixing distortion on surface

2007-05-17 Thread Tim Boykett
We used one approach for SPIN: http://www.timesup.org/spin where we did render to texture of the image we wanted to be seen, then placed this texture on a model of the screen and filmed it from a camera placed where the projector was. in 2000, when we did this, it was only possible to do this

Re: [PD] pix_multiblob cpu usage

2007-05-16 Thread Tim Boykett
build, or are there reasons not to? Cheers, tim On 15/05/2007, at 6:34 PM, chris clepper wrote: pix_artoolkit builds and appears to run. I have no idea how to effectively use it though. On 5/15/07, Tim Boykett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wiouw! pix_artoolkit would be very cool. I have

Re: [PD] pix_multiblob cpu usage

2007-05-15 Thread Tim Boykett
Of course the obvious solution is to port the OpenCV bits and pieces to PD/Gem externals :-) We did some last year for , using some existing framework, it worked within one day or so. There are several vision/video external frameworks out there; are any of them in Gem or elsewhere in PD

Re: [PD] pix_multiblob cpu usage

2007-05-15 Thread Tim Boykett
wiouw! pix_artoolkit would be very cool. I have seen some of the ARtoolKit stuff and it looks good. I am currently in OSX land, does anyone know whether the building of pix_artoolkit for OSX can be done? chrz, tm On 15/05/2007, at 4:30 PM, chris clepper wrote: On 5/15/07, Tim Boykett

[PD] pix_record inverting image

2007-05-11 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi all, I am using pix_snap and pix_record to get a series of images with decoration into a video file. This is (surprisingly enough!) working already, but with one interesting feature: the recorded videos are vertically inverted! top-bottom exchange... Hmm, any ideas what that might mean? I

[PD] text into pix

2007-05-10 Thread Tim Boykett
Hello List, is there a way to get text into a pix chain? my little thing to do is: a camera, some extra information into the camera stream (the text that I need), and record it using pix_record. Or is there a better solution? Cheers, tim ___

Re: [PD] text into pix

2007-05-10 Thread Tim Boykett
and...hmm... so it remains undoable anyway :- But thanks: I will simply build a few simple graphical objects to transfer the information, then use pix_snap to get images for recording. Thank you muchly! Tim On 10/05/2007, at 4:34 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 15:55 +0200, Tim

Re: [PD] OSCroute doesn't route deep targets

2007-05-01 Thread Tim Boykett
One workaround is to leave the OSC universe and simply use the route object route /the/full/path Side note: One thing that often gets me annoyed are nonhierarchical OSC receiver implementations. Reaktor, and probably many other implementations ignore the hierarchical structure: you enter

Re: [PD] call for PDP testing on Mac OS X

2007-04-23 Thread Tim Boykett
as well. Running on a G5 with OS X 10.3.9 Missing Libraries? need X11? Or do I simply stick with Quartz Composer? The writer Tim Boykett writ: • • Hi, • • Trying to get it up, using 39.2-rc1, nothing from pdp is working at all. • So the rest of you are having at least more luck than me

Re: [PD] window-switching on OSX?

2007-04-17 Thread Tim Boykett
apple- and apple- greater than and less than. tm On 17/04/2007, at 9:44 AM, Damian Stewart wrote: How do I switch between open windows on OSX using the keyboard? On PC I used to be able to Ctrl-Tab. The OSX equivalent of that is Apple-`, but it doesn't do anything; Apple-Tab on OSX

Re: [PD] ODE external ?

2007-04-17 Thread Tim Boykett
isn't the PMPD extension just this? Or is it a new implementation of dynamics? tm On 17/04/2007, at 9:04 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Alexandre Quessy hat gesagt: // Alexandre Quessy wrote: I wonder if there is somewhere an external that wraps the Open Dynamic Engine ?

Re: [PD] Arduino stuff - Summary of answers

2007-04-17 Thread Tim Boykett
On 16/04/2007, at 7:02 PM, Tim Boykett wrote: - is it possible to have multiple arduinos being talked with by one PD patch on one machine? Has anyone tried this? This should be no problem at all. Quoting HCS the comport number is the argument to the arduino abstraction: [arduino 1

[PD] Arduino stuff

2007-04-16 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi, a couple of questions about arduinos and PD and stuff. I hope they aren't somewhere obvious; I haven't been able to find any answers. - is it possible to have multiple arduinos being talked with by one PD patch on one machine? Has anyone tried this? - is there a Max version of the

Re: [PD] [SPAM?] [LOW] Re: visualization information?

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Boykett
Hello, I have found PD a great bit of glue for doing visualisations. But I have not played with VTK or the other tools. A friend is looking at using as a visualiser with data generation in some other package, with data sent over OSC. I have done similar things using data production in C and

Re: [PD] minor but persistent annoyances

2007-02-23 Thread Tim Boykett
On 23/02/2007, at 2:12 PM, Stephen Sinclair wrote: 3) When you copy and paste (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V in immediate succession), the pasted object is in exactly the same position as the copied object (fine), except that it is _underneath_, so when you click and drag it out of the way you move

[PD] msgfile strangeness

2007-02-23 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi, I am using msgfile to get a dataset and some parameters into PD from another application. I understood that all I needed was file1.jpg 1 2 3; file2.jpg 3 4 2; file3.jpg 1 1 1; in a file, read it with read file.dat and I would have three entries in the msgfile. It seems that I need to

Re: [PD] Turing Machine

2007-02-06 Thread Tim Boykett
Frank, This is completely mad! Congratulations!! tim On 06/02/2007, at 6:28 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hi, attached is a Turing machine simulator written using data structures. Its main purpose is to graphically illustrate the principle of how a Turing machine works. For reference: The

Re: [PD] PD CHAT

2007-02-05 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi, I have done a series of small performances where a telnet-based chatroom has been the performance space and PD makes sounds in response to actions there. The simple explanation is to use netcat (nc) to communicate with a chatroom, the output then being fed via a small sed script via