art and technology

. .one step forward 3 back ! learning all these bits of code is a bit like trying to learn chinese and russian with a blindfold on ! juggling new stuff in Processing, arduino and pure data – thay have some similatires but are specific in what they are good at – yesterday managed to get a video into processing – hurray ! but this morning when I checked it out again, it wouldn’t work . . . then after about half an hour of faffing around dicovered that when I saved it, it had made itself into an arduino file ! what’s that about then ! guess I should have noticed but the sketch was blue rather than grey – but none of the files work in the arduino state, in that they got error messages but in theory does it mean they could work through the arduino ? anyway some sort of progress is being made though not really interactive – yet !