Touchdesigner

TouchDesigner is a visual programming environment aimed at the creation of multimedia applications. A realtime creative coding tool to make programming accessible for artists and designers also without a formal programming skills. TouchDesigner allows you to connect “everything to everything" Everything that can be digitised can become an input to a TD application and everything that can be controlled digitally can be output from TD, allowing you to connect the digital world to the real world.

Getting & installing Touchdesigner

Download Touchdesigner here: https://derivative.ca/downloadCheck the system requirements & downl...

Learning Touchdesigner

You can learn Touchdesigner online! The community is 'small' and helpful, to get started check ou...

Mediapipe for bodytracking in TD: No kinect needed!

Realtime Body tracking on Mac & Pc with just a webcam!Camera's like Kinect can do body & facial t...

.Tox

A .tox file is a TouchDesigner Component file, used to save preset- components of yo...

examples (random selection)

Lights in Touchdesigner

You can control your fixtures straight from Touchdesigner, using an Enttec or over ArtNet

Controlling Lights from Touchdesigner

Controlling Ledstrips with WLED (from Touchdesigner)

Arduino & Touchdesigner

You can connect your arduino to TD to send & receive data

Various tutorials connecting TD & Arduino (no firmata)

Using Firmata

What is Firmata? Firmata is a protocol for communicating with microcontrollers (like Arduino) fr...