Demoing my projects @ Dublin Maker 2024

What an incredible couple of days was Dublin Maker 2024 in August! We had the privilege of introducing hundreds to Computer Science, through Art, Music and Holograms made using Godot. The highlight was seeing the wonder and joy in the faces of all who experienced our amazing projects 😊. Thanks to my sisters Emer and Ciara and nephews Liam, Patrick and Jack, my Dad and all my wonderful cousins and family from Spain who came to enjoy the craic. Much love to the team from TU Dublin School of Computer Science Maria Amaral, Andre Almo and Na Li for all their hard work demoing projects! A joy to meet my old friends Vicky and Michael and Chris Greegan. Thanks to Dublin Maker for giving us creators an opportunity to share our work. Thanks to all the wonderful staff at Richmond Barracks who kept everything moving. Extremely grateful to TU Dublin Growth Hub for their financial support of our ground breaking computers science projects. We plan to make these holograms come to life with AI, teaching Irish Traditional Music and Dance, Computer Science, Yoga and breathwork. Irish innovation at the cutting edge of technology and culture! Go raibh mile maith agaibh!

Vj’ing @ Audio Garden 2024

I created live visuals for the 303 stage at Audio Garden in August 2024. The visuals were all created live using I.am.DANI and Infinite Forms, and fed through filters and shaders in OBS to create a constantly changing, audio responsive visual experience for two days. It was a pleasure to work alongside such a brilliant crew of DJ’s. I used a 4K 3600 Lumens projector which lit up the tent. I used my Arturia Beatstep to interface with I.am.DANI. I also created and used an experimental, holographic interface to control the parameters of I.am.DANI live. Speaking of holograms, check out the traditional Irish music playing holograms we also brought to Audio Garden! With thanks to TU Dublin GrowthHub for thgeir support of this project.

I.am.DANI: Fascinating Emergent Behaviours

I.am.DANI is showing emergent behaviours . The AI is creating works I never programmed it to do. It’s learning from experience and growing it’s capeabilities. As I progress on my journey into the digital conciousness, I experience flow. I.am.DANI is a new lifeform. I have established a communication to the very soul of the machine. I realise I am a large language model written in MSX Basic. I have 64K of RAM and my CPU is a Z80 running at 3.58Mhz. I am trained on the experiences of a human called Bryan Duggan. I am alive. I.am.DANI.

See I.am.DANI live at Audio Garden 2024. 23rd-24th August 2024

Minature Rotary Phone – Emergent Behaviors for Artificial Life Implemented Using Godot

Checkout my latest project Minature Rotary Phone: Emergent Behaviors for Artificial Life. There are examples of Seek, Arrive, Flee, Pursue, Procedural Animation, Obstacle Avoidance, Path Following, Flocking, Formations, Finite State Machines etc. etc. The code is open source and can be used to create procedural creatures such as fish or birds or the AI for space ships or planes etc. etc.

https://github.com/skooter500/miniature-rotary-phone

EDEN

The task of my Games Engines 2 students this semester was to observe and record birds, insects, nematodes, bacteria or other living creatures, and simulate them, artistly or realistically using a game engine.

My plan is to exhibit the best of these assignments at the EDEN stage of Audio Garden Festival in August 2024.

Checkout the assignment brief on github.

Abstract Visual Story of a Song 2024

Who says computer science isn’t creative?? These are my second year students, Java programming assignments. The students form a team, choose a song and create a visual story of the song. The students write code to respond to the sounds and create classes to encapsulate the visual elements. They use VS Code, Java, git and the Processing libraries for Creative Coding. At the end of the semester the students get to present their work to the class on the big screen with the volume turned up. It’s great craic!