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Programming and Patches in Spark AR The Patch Editor allows you to use visual scripting to program interaction into your AR projects. The Patches in Spark AR have a similar functionality to the nodes in Blender and Unreal Engine. They function like pre-writte...

What is an ATtiny85? ATtiny85 is a 8-bit AVR microcontroller based on AVR enhanced RISC architecture. It has an 8-pin interface (PDIP) and comes in the category of low-power microcontrollers. This microcontroller is designed and manufactured by Microchip. Know...

A simple yet effective method used in interactive projections consist of alternating between two or more visuals. This could be the result of pressing a button or entering an area that's being tracked with a webcam, etc,.    In this brief tutorial we will lo...

Controlling NeoMatrix with Processing This tutorial is a follow-up to the last NeoMatrix animation tutorial. We are using Processing to create images, videos or realtime interaction and push those to an 8x8 Adafruit NeoMatrix. Wiring WarningIf you have a bigg...

When connected with Arduino, Touchdesigner becomes a powerful tool that makes use of external sensors to enhance immersive and interactive experiences. This brief tutorial will walk you through using Firmata, a protocol found both in Arduino IDE and Touchdesig...

 Work in progress.  MadMapper guide available here: https://madmapper.com/files/02-My%20First%20Video%20Mapping.pdf 

This list of resources will keep on growing as we continue to explore Touchdesigner here at LCC. The best way to grow in your visual programming journey is to practice! If you're struggling to get started you could look into daily or weekly coding challenges ...

External sensors can help us integrate 3D notions such as depth within our graphics. In this tutorial we will look into setting up and using Kinect v2 and some of the other sensors available in CTL. Before we begin, it's important to note that unfortunately th...

What is a Hall Effect Sensor? The hall effect sensor is a type of magnetic sensor which can be used for detecting the strength and direction of a magnetic field produced from a permanent magnet or an electromagnet with its output varying in proportion to the s...

What is Retropie? RetroPie allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi into a retro-gaming machine. It builds upon Raspbian, EmulationStation, RetroArch and many other projects to enable you to play your favourite Arcade, home console, and classic PC games with the ...

What is Raspberry Pi? Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers. The Raspberry Pi project originally leaned towards the promotion of teaching basic computer science in schools and developing countries. It is widely used in many areas because of ...

Once your Raspberry Pi is imaged, it is ready to go! We have a more detailed tutorial for imaging the Pi. Now we can move on to configuration when you turn on your Pi for the first time. 1. Power up the Raspberry Pi When you plug in the power supply and all ot...

This Adafruit MAX9814 microphone amplifier allows you to easily detect sound.  There are a total of five connections on this mic, however we will only be using VCC, GND and OUT in our wiring. You can read more about this component here. Wiring  Power (VCC...

This guide will show you the steps needed to create 360° video for the Igloo system The following steps will be using an Insta360 X2 camera. You can recreate the same steps with any 360° camera of your choice. However, some steps or details may be different w...

What is GPIO? GPIO stands for General-Purpose Input/Output. GPIOs have no predefined purpose and are unused by default. If used, the purpose and behaviour of a GPIO are defined and implemented by the user. You can find the GPIO pins on the top of most Raspberr...

What is relay? A relay is a switch that opens or closes electrical circuits when activated by a signal between low-powered digital electronics and high-powered devices. It is handy when the thing you want to control requires higher power (voltage/current) than...

What is Raspberry Pi Pico? The Raspberry Pi Pico is a microcontroller board developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It was announced in January 2021 and represents a departure from the traditional single-board computers (SBCs) that the Raspberry Pi Foundatio...

Powering the Raspberry Pi Pico The easiest way to power a Pico is through the USB cable either to a computer or a phone charger. If you are going for a wireless design, you can use batteries as well. This tutorial will demonstrate how to power a Pico with a 9V...

These tutorials aim to introduce some of the basis workflows and practices for working with audio in Touchdesigner, as well as provide students with external resources to continue on their research journey. The tutorial is structured in 3 main sessions, each ...

Wifi Communication Before heading to communication between two pico, you can try controlling pico via wifi with your computer first, see tutorial here. Server Code Client Code