My first installation, Wi-Fireworks
So, my time has came.
My first installation.
It’s really simple drawing installation.
You get your iPhone and access the URL from your browser in the instruction on the projection, and just start drawing, and you can see it right away on the projection.
You don’t need to install any application.
You can check some videos here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106749376013168
So, I used HTML5 + JavaScript for the web application, PHP for the socket (I know, it’s not the best solution, but it was what I could’ve done at this time), C++ & OpenFrameworks for the application running for the projection and a MySQL database to store all the drawn data.
What I’ve learned from this?
- you don’t really need to learn Objective-C and pay hundreds to Apple to make some simple application
- don’t try to do what everyone is doing
- I know c++ now
- flash is slow even on AIR
- sockets on PHP works pretty well
- HTML5 won’t be replacing Flash any time soon
- people are afraid to do something different at work until someone does something new
- don’t try to do everything by yourself
Anyway, at the end, everything went well, personally the result was really good.
If you read this post before 29th of March, you can still go check it out at Hoxton Square.
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