19th March 2020 - Virtual meeting

Attended by Brian, Chaz, Ed, Leon and Mark

Arts by the Sea festival

closing deadline for submissions 30th March

Web links

• call for notice
• content PDF
• TFL art
• Bandstand images

Ideas

• Pixel map of busses in Bournemouth
• Pollution – how to link?
• Use pixels to create an abstract map: Map source
• Pane of glass 4x4 LED panels = 32 x 32 pixels
  • 1 fade candy could do 2 glass panels
• Bandstand has 18x9 panes - central panes with some on each side...
• Bus data timetable or live
• Leon's footfall data
• OpenCV LED Wall : Live gardens image analysis

Drawing machines update

• I have not done anything!
• Mark successfully completed a drawing
• Eventually we get to rebuild a ESP/ web interface
• Solenoid board – weeks
• Revert a servo mechanism thing
  • Dbdring guy

Processing day

• Possibly postpone to September?
• Keep momentum, as if happening in May

LED audio updates

• Fadecandy server config (RBG vs BRG + LED order) : config guide
  • Mark's massive grid (pixel ordering)
  • Assumption of 'along, left to right' not zig zag. Inverted when facing the diffuser / housing.
• Use mapping to remap the pixels where fadecandy wants it
• A couple of ways to remap, some possibly more efficient than others
• Coding Challenge #28: Metaballs
  • YouTube link
  • Ed to try these out!

LEON: forest counting

• Leon to invite people to come discuss with us

Do virtual meetings work

• Is Teams the best environment?
  • General consensus, was quite a successful meeting, so keep Teams as meeting platform:
    • Git wiki for meeting notes
    • Slack as ongoing general communication platform

Namecheap MakeBmth.com domain

• Renewed for another year

Charlie watch

• some rework to case
• reduce height at back and also lower dome