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Long time ago I posted my last summary of my Twitter messages, however for me it is always a nice way to reexperience the developments of a time period. For this reason my most important Twitter messages from July 2013 until October 2014.

Allgemein (General)

• Huuuhh, huge link list for creative developer & designer and and..
• Critical thinking about the #maker movement Link 1 and Link 2 / Link3 #tinker #3dprinting
• RT Turn on the ventilation fan, your home 3D printer is emitting a lot of nasty particles via @TechCrunch
• Ein wirklich schönes Essay über die Maker, Open Hardware und Open Source Bewegung link via @TinkerSoup
• Nice morning read: CRITICAL ENGINEERING AND THE HIDDEN SYSTEMS THAT CONSTITUTE OUR WORLD
• One of the best #article i read lately: The rise of #data and the death of #politics
• Really nice way to express the question, what are the real benefits of Data visualization datawillhelp.us
• when #bigdata algorithm failing bad... again a fail of #paypal
• nice read: Manifesto for the Experience of Things
• Principles of Product Design
• RT Art vs Reality is a series of videos that question todays art world. Quite watchable
• Ganz gute Linkliste zum Thema #Archivierung und Erhaltung von #Medienkunst via weave magazine
• Very nice site about technology and design http://www.lowtechmagazine.com
• RT @moebio fyi: RT @semanticwill: Designing Effective Knowledge Networks | MIT Sloan
• Announcing a benchmarking survey of US academic artist-in-residence programs, focusing on IP & new-media art!
• THE F.A.T MANUAL published by http://linkeditions.tumblr.com supported by @baltanlab & @xpogallery
• I am a strong believer in SKETCHING: a nice list with arguments why | further more for UX
• This a great project: Free music for independent films and non profit projects by moby
• Press Pause Play - A film about hope, fear and digital culture
• RT If you missed #ITP #BigScreens last year, here's vimeo channel with project doc

Generative Art:

• A real treasure for #generative #art!! The Bridges Archive for the intersection of #math and art via @YellingByte
• RT Generative Impressionism — Medium
• RT Digital Reconstruction of Comic Books and Pixel Art - A talk by Dani Lischinski
• RT MT @kcimc: the #openfitlab video + an interview about the project! Love this idea, Kyle!
• Kinematics is a system for 4D printing that creates complex, foldable forms composed of articulated modules
• free book: Biological Bits A brief guide to the ideas and artefacts of computational artificial life by Alan Dorin
• nice tutorial: Generative Art - Autonomy: Cellular Automata
• New Generative #Art & #Design Book: Playing with Chaos: Programming Fractals and Strange Attractors in JavaScript
• RT Pure speculation but interesting. Fibonacci Spiral In Human Settlement Patterns
• Lepidoptera by Jacob Hübner - inspiring butterfly patterns in a book | flickr via dataisnature.com
• RT just discovered @noisia 's iterative canvas experiments. be warned that his gifmelter is not for the faint of heart

Info Design and Visualization

• nationalatlas.de ist eine gute Quelle für Inspiration&Recherche in Sachen Deutschland und Information Visualisierung
• RT Great collection: Intro to Processing for Data Viz Video Tutorials
• Great slides on techniques for mobile data vis from @dominikus
• RT Good list of Datavis Blogs | Visual Loop
• RT Behind the scenes: reusable code from @nytgraphics to make data-oriented stories look great across platforms
• OpenVis conference about the practice of visualizing data on the web with some nice talks
• RT Papers from the sports visualization workshop at IEEE Vis
• RT My talk at Visualized (NY Feb 2014): Explorations of a new Language: beyond linearity and quantity
• RT The University of Florida Sparse Matrix Collection is definitely worth a bookmark if you are into data visualization
• RT stumbled upon Ingo Günther's "world processor" in a "the map as art" splendid
• RT Location Data google stores from you #mobile
• Facebook Netzwerk analysieren und visualisieren (Gephi Tutorial) link via @david_bru
• RT RAW by @densitydesign is a really beautiful and simple way to do datavisualization
• RT New project: OECD Region Well-Being compares 300 regions around the world. How is life where you are?
• nicely done visualization: The StartUp Universe - explore startup with their founders and venture capitalists
• RT "A network of nearly 30,000 iconic figures in British culture — connected through various types of relationships"
• RT Beautiful map visualization of census demographics. Getting lost in validations and surprises
• RT Holy. Shit. "Every Second on the Internet"

UX and Interaction Design:

• The wet dream of interaction designers: Physiological #Sensors with Bitalino link via make
• Quite expensive but very nice toy for #HCI designer: e-Health Sensor Shield for #Arduino
• nice Crowdfunding Project: Angel - wearable health sensor designed to be open
• Skintimacy is a human human touch sensor by the Design Research Lab
• Myo Gesture Control Armband is a readymade #device and #sdk for working with #muscle signals
• OpenBCI is Open Source + Hardware project for brain computer interfaces | code
• Disney Research Lab: Ishin-Denshin - let's you transmit audio signal with touch
• Stanford offers a nice #lecture: Introduction to Haptics and a nice toolkit #tangible
• Nice: techtile toolkit (for rapid #prototyping tangible #interfaces) video | web
• Rapid #Prototyping for tangible interfaces: faBrickation - Fast 3D Printing Using Bricks with lego
• RT Thanks to the team behind the SMT (Simple Multi-Touch) library for Processing. Well-made and very useful
• Great extension for Marking Menus and touch interaction OctoPocus: A Dynamic Guide for Gestural Interfaces
• nice article: Responsive Navigation Patterns
• Nice emulator tool for doing your first responsivedesign tests
• LMU Munich provides really nice scripts about the Essentials of Interaction Design
• Nice read for a rainy saturday: prototyping for better products and Teams..some tools and approaches
• Interesting talk: "Conflict of Interface” talk at eyebeamnyc
• RT UX: Design for Fingers and Thumbs Instead of Touch
• Two useful links for #animation in Interface Designers: Meaningful Transitions http://www.ui-transitions.com | Mission Trans
• Nice article about smart and small transitions/animation for better #UX some more inspiration

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

• I would like to experiment with some personal #cloud products. Any experience with OwnCloud or WEDG ?
• RT READ this article from #arduino #blog : Could your skin act as an interface?
• Again a very nice projection mapping on a very special roof of building: PALEODICTYON
• RT is this the next gen volumetric / holographic display? by #kimchiandchips @mimi_son @elliotwoods
• RT Stunning moving-surface projection mapping project by @botndolly & @gmunk: About
• LED Tinkerer inspiration : Amazing Tron Dance performed by Wrecking Orchestra link via Henning Schulze
• RT Augmented face projection-mapping is one application of face tracking (link via @_vade; cc @zachlieberman
• Disney Research Lab: Aireal: Interactive Tactile Experiences in Free Air
• water-based multitouch screen research project with haptic feedback
• THAW is an #interaction system that allows large #display and small handheld devices to seamlessly work together
• Great tangible interface with Lego right way of matching physical world with the digital one! link via Peter Eszes
• Glassified – Ruler with transparent display to supplement physical drawing | MIT Fluid
• Great example of a digital extended (#game) design: Cuboino
• onNote is a nice #music #interface for learning reading notes at #arselectronica14
• Nice #magnetic almost tangible sculpture animal at #arselectronica14 tamable looper
• RT PIXELBOTS - A display formed by mobile pixels by disney research
• Impressed by the precision: Autonomous Drawing Robot | mokafolio
• TUIC: Enabling #Tangible Interaction on Capacitive Multi-touch Display | another project
• Research on Interaction Design: madgets - Actuating Widgets on Interactive Tabletops | video
• To all the #animators and #tangible interface designer out there: Computational #Design of Mechanical Characters
• Great concepts of faschionable technology for winter time: Secretkeeper
• Very nice project and great tangible interface: NOISY JELLY | projectinfo
• RT READ this article from #arduino #blog : Interactive table turns eating into a videogame
• Such a great and simple idea! Edible interfaces with #lego, ahoi!
• RT Great multi color image search
• RT Tokyo Tower Gigapixel Panorama - use your mouse wheel to zoom in, it's pretty incredible!
• RT Sorting Algorithms visualized and soundized #sound #art link via @mcanet

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

• Bewegungserkennung und Tracking mit einer Kamera #paper #algorithm
• RT Impressive dynamic target tracking camera system via ThisIsColossal.com  and #3dpro.
• Research on 3D motion capturing without markers with the help of 480 cameras... wtf!!
• Really nice! Scalable kinect fusion 3d scanner
• Google #research: Automatic object recognition in images
• RT hands down the best realtime face tracking from a color camera i've ever seen via @atduskgreg
• RT Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections via @CedricKiefer
• Mad Science: algorithm that reconstructs #audio signals from everyday items like a bag of chips
• RT This is insane. MIT tech can detect heartbeats & breathing *behind walls* (via @LossofPrivacy
• RT First-person hyperlapse videos (SIGGRAPH 2014 paper from Microsoft Research)
• RT Totally sick Siggraph demo makes the world editable.(via @worrydream
• RT Looks like I missed Google+'s new AutoAwesome feature for photos - that's some neat image processing going on there
• For all camera and film freaks a must read article: Understanding Light Field Photography
• RT The Science Behind Kinects or Kinect 1.0 versus 2.0
• Not so cheap but it looks very fine: Structure Sensor: iPad 3D Scanner
• RT READ this article from #arduino #blog : Spraying natural fibers to build cotton-candy surfaces
• RT Liquid latex and fermented dough used to create textiles that look like synthetic fungi
• Material science: New Fiber Changes Color When It's Stretched
• RT Electroluminecent paint?
• Thermal #Touch technology is able to make many objects #interactive for augmented reality applications

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

• RT "The future of programming - Unraveling what programming will need for the next 10 years."
• RT "Mastering openFrameworks" book's examples
• RT ofxAVScreenCapture, a new screen capture utility by @trentbrooks based on AVFoundation
• RT Free weather data API
• RT Just in case you missed it, @atduskgreg has released the first version of his new OpenCV #Processing library!
• RT Live face regonition in Processing @atduskgreg's OpenCV lib + @Orbeus_inc Rekognition API
• RT We are proud to release Beyond Reality Face Nxt. Highlight is an Adobe #AIR native extension for #iOS and #Android
• RT for some reason, AR terrain reconstruction like https://www.vuforia.com/ always reminds me of @inspirit not sure about the practical use tho
• RT @theowatson: some awesome new computer vision videos test added to my cvMovies archive - courtesy of @memotv
• QR Code Generator for AS3, JavaScript, PHP, Java, Ruby, Python... Small and handy
• MessagePack is an efficient binary #serialization format between different #programming languages
• Pixel Shaders - An Interactive Introduction to Graphics Programming great resource for visual programming
• GAmuza is a Hybrid Live OF Sketching IDE
• RT RegExr is an online tool to learn, build, & test Regular Expressions (RegEx / RegExp)
• RT This is the best SVG reference I've found so far
• RT Web Fundamentals - A handbook for best practices.
• RT c0de517e: How to make a rendering engine
• #Gesture Follower: Real-time following and recognition of time profiles
• The math behind photoshop blend modes: #algorithm link via @mrdoob
• RT Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful APIvery nice interview of Afroditi Psarra about soft circuits and #textile physical computing with #Arduino (#LilyPad) by @vinaysahni
• Nice summary of some PHP internal validation functions
• RT Email Validation Rules
• RT List of Free Programming Books
• RT I was having difficulties to embrace Git, this tutorial helped me
• RT Learn Git Branching

Physical Computing

• Nice codesnippet for visualizing your #arduino Sensor #data in a graph or audio based format
• Might be useful some day: #Arduino Signal Filtering Library
• A Book for #arduino tinkerer and other #coders: The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing
• fakecheerlights - an MQTT-based Cheerlights Implementation
• RT Arduino control and data logging within MS Excel
• Maybe useful at some time: Direct connection between #MySQL and #Arduino
• RT Two-way Bluetooth communication made easy via @hackaday
• Use an Arduino serial control protocol for easy device control
• RT Build your own metal detector
• Hacking laser distance measurement tools with Arduino
• Monitor solar battery systems locally and online with Arduino
• RT DueVGA: #Arduino Due VGA and TV library 
• nice hack: Pwning Timberman with Electronically Simulated Touchscreen Presses
• RT Knitting functional circuits results in some pretty cool stuff.
• very nice interview of Afroditi Psarra about soft circuits and #textile physical computing with #Arduino (#LilyPad)
• Circuit Patterns by Nick Johnson are really useful. The Design Patterns for Tinkerer!
• Mike Cook’s Tutorials for #arduino are a great resource Tutorial 1 | Tutorial 2 | Tutorial 3
• RT Introduction to stepper motors
• New #Arduino shield TB6612 MOSFET driver used from @adafruit
• Nice tutorial: Advanced Arduino Sound Synthesis via @make
• RT #arduino + #blackhat ) RT @threatpost: Long-range #RFID cloning
• Nice experiment: Convert Optical Mouse into Arduino Web Camera via @TinkerSoup
• RT The DIY (Drone It Yourself) v1.0 kit offers you the opportunity to turn any object into a drone
• craft camera - an open source #DIY camera build with arduino.. documentation does not look bad
• RT ArduinoPhone
• Nice documentation about a Arduino Weatherstation
• Great project and technology! FreeIMU: an Open Hardware Framework for Orientation and Motion Sensing
• RT LEO Gamer #arduino based hackable handheld gaming device! #3DPrinted enclosure.. check it
• RT MICO Shield for Arduino
• x-OSC is a microcontroller with embedded wifi and an #OSC implementation. It is configurable via a Web Interface
• Arduino Yún - Hardware review -> internet of things apps in combination with webservices like temboo.com
• DIWire is very nice #DIY machine for visualizing data in a physical way!
• di wire project - rapid prototype machine that bends metal wire to produce 2D or 3D shapes | video
• Small Open-source Arduino Controlled Metal 3D Printer | http://www.minimetalmaker.com
• Nice! MakeZINE create a special place for Urban Sensor Hacks: Smart City for hobbiest
• RT guys, check this out: On #Kickstarter: 13 #arduino projects that will blow your mind!"
• RT Great collection of kickstarter projects. @creativeapps on kickstarter
• RT More and more visual programming languages are available for Arduino, just now Scratch was added!
• Has anyone some experiences with MariaMole, an another (better) Arduino IDE?
• RT #Autodesk introduces #123D Circuits - great way to simulate real-time #arduino code and wiring up of breadboards..
• RT ImplicitCAD looks like an interesting alternative to OpenSCAD and it even works in the browser

Game Developing:

• RT A neat list of resources for HTML5 game developers
• Tutorial #gamedev #js: HTML5 Game Development using Phaser by Lynda
• RT New! #Isometric plug-in for @photonstorm's HTML5 #Phaser framework - examples and more to follow
• RT This is just plain awesome: Explorer shows you basic and advanced game mechanics and effects implemented in #Phaser
• RT Finally a super fast box2dweb alternative: p2.js by @schteppe check it out
• RT The new Adobe @air app turns Android devices into Motion Sensing Game Controllers
• Some actions are going on about gestural inputs for multitouch screens and games by @gestureworks
• Gamua released their Game (Backend) Server solution: Flox
• ShoeBox looks like a nice tool for #gamedev and designers. Creating and manage your sprite sheets
• R.U.B.E - a Really Useful Box2D Editor - Creating your own 2D Games with physic behavior
• MineCraft Explorer - World renderer and voxel raytracer for Minecraft worlds in #Flash #AS3 is now open source #3d
• Very simple but time by time very useful class for GameLoops - FPS independent timer | example
• Gordon is a lightweight Node.JS server for developing #multiuser apps and games with HTML5 and Adobe Flash/Air
• RT The Open Game Art bundle has been fully funded! All of the assets are now 100% in the public domain, download here
• RT Video Game Art Archive
• Really nice graphic about Game Controllers link via f. kirschner
• Wow! full Game Developer Magazine archive available online link via @zeh
• "Phone Story is a "Edutainment Game", which covers the dark side of the smartphone industry
• Great example of a digital extended (#game) design: Cuboino
• Bring the digital world into board #games: dices http://dicepl.us |futurocube.com and bricks sifteo.com
• Great project: Super Angry Birds- a Tangible Controller | documentation

Mobile

• List of inspiration for mobile UI Designer pttrns.com | lovelyui.com | uiparade.com | inspired-ui.com
• Regulatorische Anforderungen für #mobile Apps im Bereich Gesundheit und Medizin -> Link 1 | Link 2 #mHealth
• Find your competitors in the app market is not so easy, apptrace.com and appannie.com is a great help
• Android to Arduino communication without ADK or rooting
• Annikken Andee - is a nice #arduino #bluetooth shield. It talks to your #Android WITHOUT programming Java! nice!

HTML & JavaScript

• Big tutorial about lists in html & css
• A Small and very nice CSS3-Animation Framework link via @david_bru
• RT autoprefixer - Parse CSS and add vendor prefixes to rules using values from the caniuse site via @andrey_sitnik
• RT The video of my talk about Image Processing in Javascript at @RejectJS is now online
• some useful image processing codesnippets and bezier algorithm inspirations by @quasimondo
• RT Tone.js Release 1!! A JS library for making interactive music in the browser.
• New creative coding framework P5.js inspired by @ProcessingOrg link via @CedricKiefer
• Chroma.js - library for all kinds of color manipulations
• RT Remote.js
• RT Plasmid - Browser storage with multi-device syncronization by @ironfroggy
• RT List.js - Search, sort, filters, flexibility to tables, list and more! by @javve
• cylonjs.com is a #JavaScript framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things using Node.js
• Using and coding JavaScript (and node.js for #Arduino| git project
• RT Backbone Tutorials http://backbonetutorials.com/ by @neutralthoughts
• RT Here are all the slides, @github repos and demos from our #FITCspotlight #AngularJS speakers:
• RT nodeschool.io - Learn #Nodejs with Interactive Lessons
• RT Top Overlooked Security Threats to #Nodejs Web Applications (Slides) by @karande_c
• RT Securing Modern Web Frameworks with #Nodejs (Video - 1:03:36 | Slides via @OWASPmelbourne
• RT Flippin' Awesome | Writing a Command Line Utility using Node
• the blog of codeship.io  is a nice resource for #deployment and test driven development with #javascript
• RT node-exif - #Nodejs EXIF data extraction using exiftool.by @tjholowaychuk
• RT Super mega guide to extending Adobe apps with HTML+Node.js - Part 6 is now live
• RT Generator architecture - #photoshop #node #deepdive
• Code Orchestra Livecoding Tool now supports JavaScript and Node.JS
• RT tool to monitor web perfs, love the WTF prefix ^^ > @jerome_etienne tracing-framework by Google

Flash and Flex

• RT Amazing set of #ApacheFlex components from Ardisia Labs
• RT Apache Flex TourDeFlex 1.0 released!
• RT #ApacheFlex #Squiggly (#AS3 Spell Checking Library) has been released!
• Open source version of the Scratch 2.0 project editor. nice programming toolset for creating non-coding UIs
• as3GeomAlgo is a small collection of #geometry algorithms. useful for #gamedev and other #viusal #programming
• Make it simple: Collision detection for polygons
• Using #Flash / AS3 for Exif and GPS Data | exif library -> e.g. for location based photo apps
• Save + record a WebCamera video stream in AdobeAIR - library | blog
• RT New: QR Zbar (native extension to read QR and bar codes on Android and iOS)
• Extend your #Flash Adobe Air app with #arduino hardware or texture streamer for Spout
• Comprehensive list of extensions for mobile and desktop Adobe Air (#Flash) apps
• The #Flash Bridge to C++ is now called CrossBridge-Community and it is open source! #flascc
• Great: ActionScript Workers Tutorial
• RT Article: Gentle Introduction to #GoogleAnalytics for Flash
• GogduNet is a communication #library for TCP, UDP and P2P in #AS3. news via as3gamegears.com
• P2P Multiplayer Games with Flash - Tutorial | AS3MUL library
• RT Whenever I have to do any sort of xml in AS3, this tutorial is my bible,
• Flash GameDev: Using R.U.B.E. 2d Physic Editor in combination with Nape Box2d and Flash
• Generative sound tutorial: Generate Procedural Motor Sounds in #Flash
• Whitepaper: VideoEncoding Cookbook and Profile Guidelines for the Adobe Flash Platform

Sonstiges

• Really nice summary: E-learning methodologies - A guide for designing and developing #elearning courses
• Wow! Big list of Mathematics in Movies..that is the reason why Math can be cool, sometimes 😉 link via @onurson
• More than 80.000 historical movies and films from the British Pathe archive are now online on YouTube
• RT This is awesome: Smithsonian is digitizing artifacts & releasing models for 3D printing
• ANTHONY HOWE's kinetic sculptures are a big source of inspiration for every kind of artist http://www.howeart.net/
• Some basic books about urban planning and #urban #design: book 1 | book 2 | book 3
• RT This is insane: richest 85 (!) people in the world own as much as the bottom 3.5 billion
• RT The truth about wealth distribution in the US - visualized
• RT Nice and minimalist budget breakdown visualization of @WashingtonPost 'The Black Budget'
• RT The Evolutionary Tree of Myth & Religion
• Waiting for this: The #History of #Philosophy, from 600 BCE to 1935, Visualized in Two Massive, 44-Foot High Diagrams
• Again a very useful product and nice crowdfunding: AIRTAME: Wireless HDMI for Everyone