Workshops

Past workshop
Feb 19, 2015
Vector Festival Workshop: Glitch.Jam.3
Glitch.Jam is a part-workshop/ part jam, where Team Vector will walk you through the basics of circuit bending battery operated / plug and play gaming devices. We’ll show you how to crack them open, and how to employ a variety of techniques to create your own game glitches!
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Nov 29, 2014
The Craft of Electronic Fabrication with Rob Cruickshank
This workshop covers tricks and tips for good breadboarding, soldering techniques for everything from circuit boards to audio connectors, how to mount controls such as switches and potentiometers, how to wire various sorts of connectors, and how to deal with wire and cable, both inside a project, and in larger installations.
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Nov 13, 2014
Creative App Development, Part 3: Intermediate Interface, and Introducing Swift
In this last session of a three-part series, we'll move on from Objective-C to do a little bit of overview and integration of Apple's new Swift programming language. Be the first one of your friends to code in the hip new style!
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Nov 6, 2014
Creative App Development Part 2: Interface Design for Desktop and iOS
In just a few lessons, you will pick up the basics of writing and compiling your code in Apple’s development environment, XCode, language basics in Objective-C, and navigating the Cocoa framework.
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Past workshop
Oct 30, 2014
Creative App Development, Part 1: Objective-C and Cocoa fundamentals
In just a few lessons, you will pick up the basics of writing and compiling your code in Apple’s development environment, XCode, language basics in Objective-C, and navigating the Cocoa framework.
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Oct 18 - 19, 2014
Intro to Electronics with Rob Cruickshank
In this workshop we will cover the basics of electricity, starting with Ohm’s Law, work our way up to building simple digital circuits with CMOS chips, transistors and LEDs, and discuss how to interface these circuits with the ‘real world’ of motors, sensors, and other devices.
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Sep 25, 2014
Creating Images from Code Using Processing
This workshop focuses on simple techniques for making art based on code. These techniques can be applied to algorithmic art, data visualization, or graphic design.
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Past workshop
Sep 18, 2014
Introduction to Video Glitch Processes
This workshop will include a brief artist talk about glitch and glitch art techniques, an overview and exploration of the software necessary to glitch video, tips on where to source video material and what kinds of material are best to work with, an introduction to various experimental techniques and methods of outputting the files.
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Past workshop
Sep 4, 2014
Turn Anything Into An Interactive Controller: MaKey MaKey Workshop with Pearl Chen
Join in on this 3-hour, hands-on workshop to explore what you can do with physical computing. Use a real banana to enhance a banana throwing game. Use real water to enhance a swimming tutorial app. Use tilt sensors to add physical exercising to any software program. Wherever your imagination takes you.