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Mozilla Festival proposals for 2016
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Ro-Botticelli, *Creating Art with Robots* #476

Open mozfest-bot opened 8 years ago

mozfest-bot commented 8 years ago

[ ID ] 506d441e-1597-435f-8c0b-6b46bf4c8de2

[ Submitter's Name ] Dave Darch [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] A Little Learning www.alittlelearning.org [ Submitter's Twitter ] @ALL_educators, @davedarch

[ Space ] digital [ Secondary Space ] youth

[ Format ] learning-lab, hands-on

Description

The session will explore creating visual art via coding and robotics. Participants will learn and use creating code to create pieces of art. The seesion will cater for a range of abilities as there will be a combination of default programmed algorithms, load sample scripts and tweak parameters and write completely new code. The participants will collaborative create artwork. The session will be co-led/supported by young coder-artists from East London.

Agenda

Raspberry Pi powered robot running algorithms written in Scratch. Robots hold pens/paint drips in front of them and draw patterns and shapes, swirls with their wheels. Several robots (up to 4) will move around a shared canvas 2mx2m, possibly 3mx3m with different treads, caterpiller tracks and thickness pens. They will have default algorithms programmed into them, sometimes flocking, sometimes totally random. Participants can write new algorithms for the robots or load sample scripts and tweak parameters before loading them to their robot via VNC/SSH from laptop or mobile device. We would like to explore the possibility that Twitter could be employed to write scripts and read by a Python script on the robots. We would require 6 Raspberry Pi powered robots of various designs and laptops to program them from.

Participants

Particants will be free to come and go as the pieces develop over the course of the hour. It will be a large scale collaborative piece that is open to all interested. We imagine that some participants will watch, others will contribute, possibly with multiple algorithms as they see how their work manifests in reality.

Outcome

Participants will learn to code and create art

ArtsAward commented 8 years ago

@davedarch thanks for submitting, this sounds great!

ArtsAward commented 8 years ago

Acceptance email sent

edrushka commented 8 years ago

Just saw this session title - ahhh-mazing 😆

ArtsAward commented 8 years ago

@edrushka I know! We also have AnneDroid Brontes in #720 Love it!