processing study group

i have decided to study up on Processing again in anticipation for the Fall semesters classes. i will be doing a study group on Thursday nights at the Emerald Coast Community of Makers. tonight, i was able to get an install on the machine at the Makerspace running Ubuntu 12. we will start this week with a screening of Hello World! Processing, a 41 minute documentary about the platform. and then i will demonstrate some simple hello world exercises.

MESS Hall

i have been asked to participate on the Board for a new startup with the mission to found a Science and Engineering Museum to Pensacola. the initiative is headed up the researchers Dr. Megan Pratt and Dr. Jerry Pratt from the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) and they reached out to our nascent makers club ECCM to see if we want to do something with this summer's programming atMESS Hall. MESS Hall has an innovative plan to mix up the usually button pushing exhibits with real hands on project based learning modules. called a MESS kit, they are mostly designed to be low cost kits which includes a booklet with a challenge and then a step-by-step guide if you get stuck. Jerry cam to our Makers Group this past Saturday and the members of the ECCM are busily plotting a program for one session this summer.