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Slinky conductor

Slinky conductor is an art project for the course Interaction and Information Design (summer 2014). The result will be a music tool controlled by a slinky.

Documents

• Project proposal
• Project report

Tools

Core

Software

• Git
  • Remote repository:
    • GitHub
  • GUI:
    • GitHub for Windows
    • git-gui
• Visual Studio
  • Visual Studio 2010 Express
    • Visual C++ 2010 Express
    • Service Pack 1
• OpenCV
  • Version: 2.4.9
• Boost
  • Version: 1.55.0

Hardware

• slinky
  • @filipbartek: Magic Spring
• digital camera
  • @filipbartek: Logitech Webcam C170

Optional

Software

• MicroProfiler (C++ profiling)
  • Version: 1.1.567
• Dependency Walker (DLL dependencies; useful for release packaging)
• VLC (video and audio format conversion)
• Avidemux (video file inspection)
• Audacity (audio file inspection)

Git

• Neat introduction to Git by Atlassian:
  • Git Tutorials
  • Git Workflows
• Git book

Interaction and Information Design

• Učilnica page

Slinky

• Wikipedia article
• Official homepage
• Urban Dictionary definition

Slinky juggling

Videos

• tyranicslinky
  • Cool and Difficult Slinky Tricks
  • Probably the Best Slinky Trick Ever
• Slinky juggling trick... NEW?
• Slinky TV commercial (1960s)

OpenCV

• Homepage
• Documentation
  • Tutorials
    • Installation in Windows
    • OpenCV with Microsoft Visual Studio
• CvBlobsLib (blobs detection)

Visual Studio

Source control

• gitignore/VisualStudio.gitignore
  • Introduced in 7aaa7a1f163427e662de7ac4e57bced14e5ba8d9 (branch opencv)
• .gitignore for Visual Studio Projects and Solutions
• Best practices for Subversion and Visual Studio projects (C#)
• Introducing Source Control (Visual Studio 2008)
• Using Version Control (Visual Studio 2010, Team Foundation)
  • @filipbartek: Probably useless for us as we use external version control system (GitHub).

MicroProfiler

• Visual Studio Extensions
  • x86
  • x64
• Google Project Hosting

Boost

To set up Boost 1.55.0 in 32-bit Windows with Visual Studio 2010:

1. Download boost_1_55_0-msvc-10.0-32.exe from here.
2. Run boost_1_55_0-msvc-10.0-32.exe and go through the installation process.
3. Set environment variable BOOST_ROOT to point to boost_1_55_0

• E.g. C:\local\boost_1_55_0