Wednesday, 20 February 2008

What is Arduino?

According to www.arduino.cc/ Arduino is an open- source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino is a simple physical computing platform based on input/output board.

Arduino can be connected to software’s like Macromedia flash, Pure Data, Processing, Supercollider on your computer. The programming language used for Arduino is C/C++.Arduino software is an integrated development environment cross platform Java application which acts as a code editor and is also able of transferring firmware successively to the board.

I bought an Arduino for myself which can with a breadboard and an LED. Downloaded the arduino software 10 on personal pc and went through the basic examples. Exercise example such as the Blink and Digital Potentiometer.

I went to the Listening Post Exhibition in Science Museum on 19 Feb 08 and took pictures as a part of my research. Listening Post is work of Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin based on online communication. Artist Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin have divided their work into seven separate scenes similar to movements in a masterpiece. Each scene with its own internal logic sifting, filtering and ordering the text remains in its own different ways.

Listening Post is an amazing investigation into the character of online communication and the meaning and malleability (flexibility) of data. The masterpiece is a Dynamic Portrait of electronics and contemporary art.

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