Devon, I'll happily write up my experience with the use of J and put it on the wiki. To get into Arduino, start with this portal: http://arduino.cc/ . Also MAKE: magazine http://www.makezine.com/magazine/ --just about every other gizmo has an Arduino duct-taped to it.
I doubt I'll be able to add much to the use of the Arduino in general. There's a load of freeware and documentation, also a forum. But it would be nice to see J somewhere on this extensive list, which shows all our main competitors: http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/InterfacingWithSoftware Your museum curator can't really say there isn't much published experience with it. But he's certainly opened an interesting market for an aspiring Arduino jock: consultant engineer for art exhibitions and museum displays. As for altering the artist's code, I guess that falls into the same ethical category as restoring the pigments in Old Masters. I wouldn't consider the code part of the artwork, but supporting technology. A grey area though, which could do with some published interface standards, if not software products, so artists could benefit from a code version of Cryla or Fimo. Ian On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian - I'd be interested in what you find out about the Arduino. I heard a > talk on it at BarCamp NYC a couple of weeks ago. The talk was about its use > in artworks and the complications this raises for art curators with regard > to maintaining the work because they often lack the technical expertise to > work with a micro-controller. There are also issues about maintaining the > integrity of a piece - whether a curator has the right to potentially alter > a work by changing its programming. > > Please keep us informed. > > Thanks, > > Devon > > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'm currently playing with the Arduino microcontroller much beloved of >> hobbyists and gadgeteers: http://arduino.cc/ >> >> Pleased with what I can make it do so far, which is program it (in C), >> but not communicate through my Mac with its running program. >> >> It has a USB port which supports a simple TTY interface via which >> commands can be sent and data retrieved. >> >> Does anyone have any experience of communicating with it using J? >> >> Ian >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > > > -- > Devon McCormick, CFA > ^me^ at acm. > org is my > preferred e-mail > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
