Niche superstar Andreas Refsgaard, a renowned creative coder and former design student here at ITU, swung by AIRLab on Tuesday to host a workshop. In this session, curious students explored the possibilities of using face- and body-tracking packages for P5.js. The workshop began with Andreas demonstrating some of his prototypes, followed by participants spending two hours playing around with the technology, getting help from Andreas and each other. It was both fun and insightful, and we are eagerly awaiting the next event of this nature. Workshop took place here in AIRLab, and was set up by the student organization DAK (Design Aktivitetskomité).

We used the web editor for P5.js, which possibly resulted in a new all-time low entry barrier for a software prototyping workshop.

Here’s an example of a participant-made sketch, allowing the user to shoot a virtual laser out of their index finger: https://editor.p5js.org/jonasniel/sketches/aKNA6htUb

See examples of ML5-packages in use here: https://examples.ml5js.org/

Link to the facebook-event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1121140105874954