After seeing a lot of celebration over the launch of the Raspberry Pi 2 today, I did a little research into the current state of play with creative coding environments on it. Turns out that Processing now runs adequately on the pi, and oF seems also to be viable. In particular there are lots of nice looking libraries available for oF, including a few projection mapping ones. Projection mapping was the reason I bought the pi in the first place, to design a standalone unit to run the piece S/N (2011). Finally, three years on, this might actually be possible.

The downside to all of this is that I’m likely going to have to learn C++ to progress with the video-based work. Processing is just too cranky with video, so if I’m going down this road then I need to do some serious technical reskilling.