This year's eggs were designed using Nodebox and Inkscape.
Charlie worked mostly in Nodebox. It's patch-based programming was right at his level and copy, rotate and wiggle all got a lot of action.
Wyatt found inspiration in Minecraft and we worked together to write a letter writing script in Python to print out an wiki entry on egg. Then he created a vector version of the pixelated egg in Inkscape.
The video below shows some highlights from production.
Some tests for this year's eggs. We're using both Flash and Nobebox.
Some studies for this year's hunting (controlling Eggbot with Flash).
This weekend, I was able to get Flash talking to the EiBotBoard of my Egg Bot via Tinkerproxy 2.0. Fun stuff.
The trickiest part was finding the right file within /dev to point Tinkerproxy at. The EiBotBoard shows up as /dev/cu.usbmodemNNN which is quite different from the way an Arduino board shows up.
With the proxy in place, I set up a Flash file to load images, transform them into halftone dot patterns and then plot them onto eggs. Plotting is done with 3 different commands, one to raise and lower the pen, one to turn the egg (xaxis) and the last to move the pen (yaxis).
