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Hybrid Toys Workshop results

The Hybrid Toys workshop concluded succesfully last friday, with a lecture by the workshop leaders Dana Gordon and JB. At the end of the lecture I gave a small presentation on the outcome of our workshop project: the Musical Flower Pots. I have put a short movie online demonstrating the toy:

The project was made using 6 SonMicro RFID usb readers, corresponding RFID tags, and Processing code producing the sounds. Read on for technical details and a link to the source code.

The source code was written in the Processing language, which basically is a precompiler for Java. There are several classes, corresponding to real-life objects: Pot, and Flower. A class FlowerController was made which held instances of these classes. The code is very modular, adding an extra flower is a single line of code; adding a new Pot too.

The code is released in the public domain, and may be used by anyone who finds a use for it. I would like it if your use the code, that you e-mail me whether or not you like it.

Download the source code here (600kb, including sound files).