Creative Code MTL
As part of Open Hardware Month, Radio Snack and Cyber Love Garden are organizing, in collaboration with Ada x, a series of free, volunteer-led workshops to share tools and techniques related to creative coding with the community.
Check out the schedule of the workshops at Ada X:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23
9-12h : Introduction to the Cajita Abierta with Alexandre Castonguay. RSVP HERE
The Cajita Abierta (open box) is a a low-cost, Arduino and platformio based hardware and software platform for learning physical computing based on the ESP32 microcontroller, useful when you need to add sensors to your projects, control motors or midi or cv instruments. Up to 12 participants are invited to explore the platform to display an animation on the 128 x 64 pixels screen ; Control Stepper, Servo and DC motors ; Use sensors to control midi synths ; Create simple games on the whopping 4mb memory the board offers ; Develop other projects that can be used to teach electronics and code and added to the 80+ examples already online
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24
12–2 p.m.: Digitizing the Body in Motion with Nic Bourgeois. RSVP HERE
Digitizing the Body in Motion. Starting from a presentation of DIY digital musical instruments, this workshop introduces the basics of self-hosted machine learning and the building of a position-recognition model using the Gesture-Sound Toolkit (GST), part of the MuBu library. We will make the movement data captured by our phones accessible, to understand how it works and generate sound in real time. An invitation to center digital performance art around the body. No prior experience required. This workshop will be given mainly in French; the facilitator is bilingual.
3:00–5:00 p.m.: Introduction to Creative Coding with p5js with David Holcer. RSVP HERE
Participants will gain hands-on experience with creative coding using the p5js programming language and will create their own creative coding masterpiece blending geometric and Suprematist styles, inspired by the works of artist El Lissitzky and his book “Two Squares.”
First hour: Introduction to creative coding and a brief history; learning the key concepts of p5js (participants will follow the examples on screen using the online editor https://editor.p5js.org/).
Second hour: Time set aside for participants to continue creating and refining their creative coding projects.
6:00–8:00 p.m.: Introduction to Puzzlescript with Raphaëll Maïwen. RSVP HERE
Puzzlescript is a free online tool for creating simple games, primarily grid-based puzzle games. It’s quick to learn and requires no programming skills. By the end of this workshop, you’ll have learned the basics of the software and created your first game with it. No technical or creative experience is required.
Discover the other Creative Code Week workshops held at Radio Snack and Cyber Love Garden, follow their websites and socials:
RADIO SNACK: Instagram, website
CYBER LOVE GARDEN: Instagram, website