Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Alasdair Turner, who passed away last year, for creating the Msc AAC at the Bartlett. We had the great chance of being taught by him, Sean Hanna, and Ruairi Glynn, and so this work is partly theirs. Thanks also to Miriam Dall'Igna, without whom the Kinect-controlled delta robot project wouldn't exist.

The three authors met while working at Foster+Partners in London. We would like to thank everybody there for maintaining such a creative environment.

We would also like to thank Michelle Lowman at Apress for giving us this great opportunity and our editors, Corbin Collins, Gwenan Spearing, and Cliff Wootton, for all of their help and encouragement through the writing process.

Finally, we would like to thank the whole Arduino, Processing, and Kinect communities for their endless sharing. Creativity is a collective process and this book, although written by three people, is the result of a common, worldwide effort. Thank you.

—The Authors

My friend Carlos Miras gave me my first Arduino board for my 29th birthday in an Italian restaurant in London. The couple next to us looked pretty puzzled but that Arduino would be the first of many to come. Years earlier, Rafa Vazquez taught me how to program cellular automata in a Parisian cafe. I didn’t know either that I would go on to program many others. I would like to thank all my friends for teaching me so many things throughout the years.

I would also like to thank my family for always pushing me to do whatever I wanted at any given moment, which has often changed directions almost randomly. And I would like to thank Mariève who, for the last five months, lived surrounded by wires and strange contraptions and still found it “l’fun.”

—Enrique Ramos

I would like to thank Enrique for all the knowledge and creativity shared in the process of building this book. I would like to thank my family for their support during these months. I would like to thank my friends, especially Ollie Palmer, Stefano, Filippo, Max, Paula, Fer, Edu, and Maria for their critical viewpoint.

I would also like to thank Silvia, who has been part of this book by giving advice and support and by asking questions about this little green circuit that can do so many things.

—Ciriaco Castro