Code and art by Rachel Nabors
[email protected]

Project title: Alice in Videoland

Project concept and description:
"Alice in Videoland" started as a demo for an article on interactive web design for Adobe's digital Inspire magazine. It turned into a little tale all its own. Using jQuery, a few key plugins, and CSS animations, Rachel was able to transform the browser into a portal to Alice's world. The story is updated with a modern setting and modern characters. Future installments will be released as code challenges with assets and storyboards in a repo on gitHub.

Status: Completed and available at http://rachelnabors.com/alice-in-videoland/book/

Hi! The link in "Go to the Call for Makers new issue" in the CFM readme doesn't work. Am I just supposed to use the CfM label for a new issue?

Glitchbooth is a photobooth that creates realtime glitched selfies. The project uses Javascript-based computer vision (like Headtrackr and JSFeat) to identify faces and objects in the frame, and then distorts the image realtime using webGL pixelshaders.

This project is a play on the ever-popular photobooths at weddings and events. Instead of crisply capturing the subjects, their images will be distorted using a number of filters like glitch, polygons, 8-bit, phase-delay, and face-replacement. With some filters, the images will simply be distorted (shifted, sliced, blurred, or glitched)--in others, the subject will only be the seed for an abstract, generative image (i.e. a polygonal pattern or sequence of intersecting lines).

Glitchbooth will be open source with a plugin system for the filters. I'll provide the base set of filters and instructions for creating more--and anyone will be able to submit additional filters. Ambitious folks could even create them at Cascadia.

The installation will be controlled by a Powermate knob on a pedestal--simply rotating the knob will change the filter. Pushing the knob will create a screencapture and allow the user to tweet the image from the @glitchbooth account, tagged with #CJS14. The images will
also be available on glitchbooth.com.

(Almost) everyone enjoys seeing themselves on screen. This is a simple, participatory project that would work well in a common space where people mingle on breaks.

Hardware requirements:

• Webcam
• Projector
• Mac Mini (or comparable machine-- anything with a reasonable GPU)
• Griffin Powermate USB knob

The installation will depend on the space at the venue. Ideally it's located somewhere most people will pass by and projected life-size. I can provide all of the hardware, assuming the venue is secured.

How the heck do I deliver this by 7/31?

This project comes from prototypes for Whispering Galleries, a project I recently made with Amaranth Borsuk. It is a Leap-and-webcam project commissioned by Site Projects and currently installed in the New Haven Public Libraries. In the installation, the reader sees a distorted image of herself behind an entry from an 1858 diary. When she moves her hand, the text breaks up to reveal a poem within the diary entry (an erasure). The reader can manipulate the text and particles with her hand (using data from the Leap Motion). The result looks like:

For Whispering Galleries, we experimented with a number of different distortions of the webcam image, which will be the basis for Glitchbooth. I'll pull the code out of the abandoned branches and abstract the processing pipeline from Whispering Galleries for reuse in Glitchbooth.

Who the heck am I?

I gave a talk at Cascadia 2013 about creative code (Make Art Not Money) and am a co-organizer of Seattle.js. In addition to the aforementioned Whispering Galleries, I made Between Page and Screen, also with Amaranth Borsuk. It's an augmented-reality book of poetry, published by Siglio Press, that has been exhibited internationally. Professionally, I'm a front-end engineer and product lead, and have done a bunch of startup-y stuff.

contact email: bradbouse / gmail

A GIANT LED cube encased in wood driven by a node API && a REST API. :)

Some people love having their handles/names on their hoodies. Some people hate it. For cascadiajs.next, please allow an option for attendees to have a generic hoodie without any name/handle information on it.

Thanks!

Code and Design: Rachel Nabors
Art and Interaction: Daria Yeliseyeva

Project title: The Black Brick Road of OZ #11

Project concept and description:
Black Brick Road 11 is a joint collaboration by the Russian cartoonist known as "Xamag" and award-winning American cartoonist-turned-frontend developer Rachel Nabors. Xamag's ongoing interactive web comic "The Black Brick Road to OZ" features explorable portions and discoverable content. In this ambitious piece, the audience is invited to explore the map and uncover disturbing secrets alluding to future plotlines.

Implementation: Complete, available at http://cdpn.io/lqswg

"Webji II: The WebSocketing"

Randall A. Gordon
[email protected]

Many moons ago, when the Palm Pre came out, I made a silly little demo that used the Pre's accelerometer to control a virtual ouija board which I called Webji.

Which was fun. But, I've always wanted to make a physical version of the board which is controlled by MAGIC! Which is to say, via a magnet being moved around by stepper motors underneath a CNC milled version of the ouija board.

It seems to me like CascadiaJS is the perfect reason to convert the server over to Node.js and call on some of my best friends—WebSockets and node-serialport—to make a JavaScript-powered talking board a reality!

The software is already ready to go...part of it is just in Ruby at the moment! I'll get that aspect taken care of pronto. Just need to buy some motors, rescue a nice, strong magnet from an old hard drive and start milling parts to take care of the hardware end of things.

Submitters

Just me, Kassandra Perch (kperch on the githubz)
my email for all intents and purposes (incl. reimbursement) is kassandra [at] kassandraperch.com

Concept

I want to create an RGB LED grid with a BeagleBone Black and the npm module I wrote (open-pixel-control). Though I'm considering using fadecandy and that npm module. We'll see - it in theory should work either way, but I know for sure it works with BBB.

This panel will have some built-in patterns and animations (pixel art comes to mind), but I want to create a way to let people put their own designs on the board. Depending on how far I get through development, that could be a web app that submits to a REST API, or that could be people emailing me JSON files, or snippets of JS. I want people to be able to submit their pixel art to display, and I'll find a way to do so.

Tech Specs

Here's the plan so far to fit the budget:

a 12 x 20 grid of evenly spaced "neopixel" RGB LEDs, run via a beaglebone black board (or fadecandy board) and Node.JS. I'll need a power outlet - the BBB needs a power source, and the grid of lights will be powered by a 5V/10A switching power adapter. Other than that wifi would be nice but not necessary - new designs can be uploaded with a USB cable.

The way I'll go about it seems to be the most economical- buy a bunch of meter-long strips, then cut and re-solder them in a grid format, and glue/tape them to a supporting board. If the grid gets larger, I'll add connectors between multiple boards.

I have plans to obtain an accelerometer and have at least one design use the accelerometer and react to it.

A quick ballpark of the measurements of the panel leave it a little over 26" x 15.5", but I can go bigger -or- more dense pixels with a bigger budget. As it stands, I'm accounting for a $100 reimbursement and going out-of-pocket a little.

The web app I'm thinking of would be a series of pixels that you can change the colors of- I'm seeing if there's any painting programs I can use that are open-source JS. If not, I'll just have people email me JSON files with arrays of pixels, and I'll show them. Still fleshing out the submission process.

Implementation Plan

I've basically broken this project down into several stages - from a minimum to an ideal. I'll just keep iterating from minimum up until I run out of time.

Minimum Milestone - Panel w/submittable designs

I'll have a 20 x 12 panel of lights, and I can upload people's drawings manually through the BBB. The panel will have a button that lets you cycle through the designs.

Estimate time to completion: 1 week after I order parts

Milestone 2 - Accelerometer

One of the designs on the panel will react to an attached accelerometer- I'll make it accessible via a glove or stick.

Estimate time: a couple of days beyond minimum

Milestone 3 - Web App to submit designs

Users will be able to submit arrays of pixels in a JSON format, at a URL. They'll be curated for appropriateness, then tossed into a queue for the panel to cycle through.

Estimate time: about a week? beyond milestone 2.
Prereq: wifi available at show.

Milestone 4 - More Sensors

I haven't thought this one through, since I don't know I'll get to it. But I could add more sensors in (proximity, light, buttons) and have the panel react to those in different designs.

Estimate: ???

Display contents

I was planning on documenting the build with photos and notes. If you'd like, I can include a paper version of the log to sit at the table with the display, to show folks what went into the project.

All the code will be open sourced with an MIT license.

I'll add a comment before the deadline with some sketches, and more detailed info. If you have any questions, leave a comment and I'll do my best to answer them quickly.

Current to-do:

• Add current confirmed sponsors to website Sponsor section: We don't currently have the logos for any of these sponsors. Will reach out shortly. Please add filler block on site using our current styling with sponsor's name.
• Twilio --Giga tier, hacker zone sponsor logo HERE
• Esri --Giga tier, coffee sponsor
• Sauce Labs--Giga tier, lunch(1) sponsor
• Concurix--Mega tier, JSBBQ sponsor--logo emailed to @chrisdickinson

You don't need to display all of this info. Do with it what you prefer!

• Add Sponsor tiers to sponsor section of website. See this doc for copy to complete the sponsor section.

Hi! I've been moving over the past week and was away from most internet access. Is there any way I can still submit a CFP today/tonight/early tomorrow morning?

It would be nice if we could get a list of all the slide decks added to the cascadia home page.