The Interactive Art group at CITAR, recently bought a Neurosky Mindset device (it's a headset that reads the brainwave activity) and, because there were no available Processing libraries to fetch the brainwave data I decided to implement my own.

So... here's the MindsetProcessing library. 

I gave a talk at the CITAR Seminars abou the DiABlu Project. Here are the slides. Slides for other talks are in CITAR Seminars page.

DiABlu Mailman 0.5 has been released!

This is a tool, aimed primarily at digital artists, that allows sending files to bluetooth devices and receiving files. It uses OSC to communicate with applications so any OSC-capable application can send and receive files.

The youtube videos give a small perspective on what the tool allows: Demo1, Demo2. Demo1 features a Pure Data application that receives images from bluetooth devices and shows them in a rotating cube. Demo2 features a Processing application that allows sending a text file to any device of a given manufacturer.

Mailman itself is written in Java and uses the Bluecove bluetooth library and Netutil OSC library.

This tool is a part of the DiABlu Project been developed at CITAR.

Thanks to Pedro Santos for the great work on this one!

Mailman can be downloaded in the Google project downloads page. 

Forgot to mention this in the last post:

The previous DiABlu Server is now called DiABlu Scout (due to a change in project definition) and it has changed some funcionality:

- It does not allow connections from DiABlu Mobile (dead, for now)

+ It now detects the type of Bluetooth device (major and minor classes)

+ It now detects the manufacturer of the Bluetooth hardware 

I have updated the DiABlu project website with one new tool: DiABlu LegOSC. 

LegOSC is a tool that works as an OSC gateway for the Lego Mindstorms NXT, allowing any OSC capable program to control the robot and read sensor values.

Jorge Coutinho, a student of mine, has developed an interactive video installation that uses the DiABlu System to detect presence.

The project is called Show Dot Some Love and was implemented using Processing.

Basically, it represents people as spheres on a screen. These spheres are all attracted to another special sphere: Dot.

Heres a screenshot from the application:

This project was presented during the week of 26-30 March 2007 at the School of Arts and has received some attention from the press:
Público Digital
Fábrica de Conteúdos

Some time ago, I gave an interview for the Exame Informática magazine about the DiABlu system. The article was published on the January 2007 issue of the magazine. You can read it in the DiABlu's Blog.

A student of mine made an interactive video installation that uses the DiABlu Project. I posted an entry in DiABlu's blog about the Nulltidão Installation.

I have decided to create a blog dedicated to the DiABlu Project .

The project will have more news starting next September with the conferences, magazine articles and presentations, so I think it deserves its own space! Besides, I wanted to check out Wordpress... :)

The contest for the DiABlu logo has just finished!

The chosen logo was this:

The logo was designed by Sara Coutinho.