Post date: Apr 12, 2012 8:44:35 AM
All,
Just a quick note on the OpenFrameworks assignment and how it relates to the final project as there were some questions on this.
We realize that you all have different backgrounds, with different levels of programming experience. Just to reassure you this will be taken into account when evaluating the projects. The use of OF in this assignment is actually more a constraint rather than an objective, so we evaluate the end result itself (is it an interesting project etc) rather than technical (i.e. OF) acumen.
Some of the best projects last year were technically actually quite simple. If you want to have a feel for what folks did then have a look at https://sites.google.com/site/nmnt2011/. Last year there were also just two weeks between the workshops, we increased this to 3 weeks this year to give people more time.
What I do expect is that people tinker - try to go beyond their regular comfort zone, are able to change course when you hit technical boundaries so know your limits when getting stuck, or even turn 'failures' into core pieces of the project (again there were examples of this last year as well).
Also, for the final assignment for NMNT (the lab expo) you can leverage any NMNT technology you want. So there are no requirements to use OF for instance.
Hope this clarifies things more, best of luck with the final hacking and looking forward to seeing your projects tomorrow!
Peter