Are you a developer in the Washington D.C. area who would like to learn more about Twilio, meet other developers, and hack on a simple project? If so, you may want to head over to the HacDC space next week on Thursday evening. Can't make it? Check out our Upcoming Events to see where Twilio developers and team members will be hanging out next.
From their website:
On Thursday, January 14, at 7:00PM at HacDC, Todd Fine and Darius Roberts will introduce the Twilio API (HTTP requests to dynamic XML), demonstrate two applications we have built using Python and Ruby, and finally lead a brainstorming session about other creative and artistic possibilities using the Twilio platform.
Todd and Darius go on to describe two Twilio applications they've built
Spacerad
The first application is a distributed microphone for group-created ambient soundscapes (tentatively titled "Spacerad"). Twilio's platform can record audio over the phone and offer a callback URL for the saved WAV file. Using XMPP (the instant messaging technology used, for example, in Google Talk), this URL is immediately sent to a Python script running on a local machine which can interact with a number of audio environments Todd likes to use (Pure Data, Supercollider, and, hopefully, Ableton Live). Hence, even a large audience, with the ubiquitous cellphone, can provide the samples for an open-ended and cooperative musical experience.
Dial-a-Song
The second application is based on a classic phone application of the tape answering machine era. The creative band They Might Be Giants once had a Brooklyn local phone number, popular in the eighties and nineties, that would play some of their songs off an answering machine. While this service was "always busy, often broken," with Twilio's API, we can create a service serving TMBG songs that far surpasses the original Dial-a-Song in functionality, hopefully without losing its charm. Darius will present his Ruby-based version of Dial-a-Song.
When: 7:00PM-8:30, Thursday, January 14
Where: HacDC Space, 1525 Newton St NW, Washington DC 20010
Cost: Free and Open to the Public!
About HacDC
HacDC is a hacker space located in Washington, DC. HacDC members improve the world by creatively rethinking technology. We break, build, and occasionally abuse technology in the pursuit of greater knowledge about how it works and repurposing it to build new things.
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