tbg-roofies-webbys-projection

Projection for the Webby Awards co-sponsored roofies party (August 2013)

Dependencies

• OSX 10.8.4
• Cinder 0.8.5 and xcode
• Python 2.7
• beanstalkd

Be sure to set the CINDER_PATH to your local (built) version of Cinder

Projection

• Built with cinder
• The app makes calls to the flask app to grab the photos at http://localhost:5000. Possible urls are:
  • http://localhost:5000/getPhoto (Photobooth photos)
  • http://localhost:5000/getUserInstagram/tbg (@barbariangroup instagram photos)
  • http://localhost:5000/getInstagram (#roofies2013 tagged instagram photos)

To publish the final projection app

• The xcode project is in projection/WebbysProjection/xcode/
• Make sure the project is linked to wherever Cinder 0.8.5 is installed
• Run the app in xcode to get your final .app file

Server notes:

• Python based
• To watch for photos added to dropbox, it uses beanstalkd
• The server uses flask
• Be sure pip is installed so that you can install a bunch of python dependencies

Necessary python includes

(pip install _)

• pip (to install other dependencies) Pip install directions
• virtual environment (not essential, but best if you want to use the venv environment in the python directory)
• beanstalkc (to add new photos from a directory to a queue) Be sure to install beanstalkd
• flask (to serve the json to an app)
• watchdog (to watch dir for changes)
• requests (makes making http requests easy)

To install the dependencies cd into the python dir:

$ pip install -r stable-req.txt

To run everything:

Terminal 1: (beanstalkd)

$ cd ~/[project directory]/python
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ beanstalkd

Terminal 2: (photo booth monitor)

$ cd ~/[project directory]/python
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ python photoboothMonitor.py ~/Dropbox/booth [swap out for final booth dropbox directory]

Terminal 3: (cinder web server)

$ cd ~/[project directory]/python
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ python cinderWebServer.py ~/Dropbox/booth [swap out for final booth dropbox directory]

Once all the python scripts and servers are running, launch the cinder app (WebbyProjection). That's it. You won't see anything until enough photos load, which may be a few seconds.