ProCodeCG Kids Coding Exhibition 2017 – 17 Aug 2017

This is how ProCodeCG celebrate Indonesia Independence Day 😉 We have this annual event to show the world the work of ProCodeCG Kids 🙂 They will present what they have learned to their parents and public audiences 🙂

This event is supported by Grapari Telkomsel Digilife Dago and powered by Telkomsel 🙂

Venue preparation

Today we have 12 kids presenting their works, and the first presentation is by Capt. Moch. Malik Putra Kurniawan (12 yo) – “Measure Temperature Humidity with Mobile IoT”

The second presentation is by Nazneen Nur Shadrina Sugiarto (8,5 yo) – “LifeCycle Apps with Thunkable”

The 3rd presentation is by Bullit “Awa” Zulfiqar (8,5 yo) – “Cat Feeder”

The 4th presentation: M. Rezandra Rizky Irianto (14 yo) – “Blender 3D Modelling”

The 5th presentation: Jundy Valliant Alkautsar (13 yo) – “Minecraft Modding”

The 6th presentation: Faris Hafizhan Hakim (12 yo) – “Prayer Time Reminder App in Java”

The 7th presentation: Clarence Soetarman (14 yo) – “Sorting Algorithm Visualization with ESPectro”

The 8th presentation: Tyogo Utomo (13 yo) – “ProCodeCG Attendance List App in Java”

The 9th presentation: Sulthan Zaky Nurrochman (9 yo) – “Archery Website with WordPress”

The 10th presentation: Abdillah Muhammad Halim (13 yo) – Ultrasonic Gesture Sensor

The 11th presentation: M. Iqbal Fauzan (13 yo) – “Ultrasonic Counter”

The 12th presentation: Serenada Cinta Sunindyo (11 yo) – “Automatic Traffic Light Pedestrian Button”

The last but not least: a presentation demo by ProCodeCG Parent Pak Slamet Puji Santuso = Magic Mirror 😉

 

And we were so honored to be visited by guests from SMP IDN Madinatul Ilmi – Jonggol Bogor 🙂

The presenters:

The audience:

 

Us! 😉

Our captains in duty:

KIds play together after the event 😉

Interviewing session:

Captains performs Dhuhr Prayer 🙂

The Moms 😉

See you again next year 😉

 

 

 

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ProCodeCG Random Activities – 20 Feb 2017

Today is a typical productive day for ProCodeCG 🙂

First, we now have a ProCodeCG Relay to accompany our ProCodeCG Led and ProCodeCG Button 🙂

We prepared materials for this Saturday’s Kids Regular Coding Class – Apps Programming: Speech to Text App 🙂

And Speech to Text – Text to Speech App 🙂 Later we will collaborate Arduino Kids with Apps Programming Kids to create project together 🙂

Today we had ProCodeCG Kids session too with Clarence 🙂

We discussed about his TFT LED project, how he set up the frame per second number so the picture animated on the LED won’t be flickering 🙂

We had Coding Mum Meeting at the same time

And Meeting with DyCodeX Team afterwards 🙂 We have lots of plans to collaborate 🙂

Our (regular) stuff 😉

And sensors 🙂

ProCodeCG and DyCodeX will create awesome events soon 🙂 Stay updated 🙂

ProCodeCG codeMeetUp() #90 – BR – IoT and MQTT

The topic for today is how to connect IoT to cloud, by Prof. Budi Rahardjo 🙂

The preparation before presentation and demo. Making sure internet connection was stable 🙂

What is MQTT?

Concept of Queue

The audience (a few more were coming late)

Example of queue system is RabbitMQ

The stuff for demo

Pak BR used DyCodeX Espectro because it already has wifi module on board 🙂

MQTT communication model

Brokers. The open source one is Mosquitto

Starting up Mosquitto

subscribing to HiveMQ

The client

The code

It worked just fine, with DyCodeX Espectro 😉

Compiling code with PlatformIO

The topic can be subscribed from an Android phone with MQTT apps. Look on the right, when the publisher send a message to turn on/off the LED, Espectro LED on board will be on/off and the switch on Android will be checked/unchecked.

The code can be in Python too 🙂 With paho library

The code can be compiled with Arduino IDE too

We learned so much thing today 🙂

After class, we tried to set up a publisher and subscriber on Android phones

Yea it worked 🙂

The phone on the left is publisher and the right one is subscriber. Notice that the right one display anything inputted by the left one 🙂

With this platform we can create so much things! Will be reporting more updates very soon 🙂

ProCodeCG codeMeetUp() #81 – OwnGames – “How a game developer become online round tofu seller without selling tofu”

Yesterday we had CEO and Founder of OwnGames shared about their awesome journey!!! We had contacted the CEO two months before but he had really tight schedule (he actually is now) so we were very lucky to finally can have him on our codeMeetUp()! He flew from Surabaya and drove straight to Digilife Dago and share huge inspirations with ProCodeCG 🙂

The audience and the setting up scene 🙂

Muhammad, ProCodeCG Kids, with the whole family was also there 🙂 Thanks for coming 🙂

One of ProCodeCG Kids, Clarence wanted to take picture with the famous CEO of Tahu Bulat 😀

Eldwin Viriya. This smart, hardworker, successful, young man was graduated from Informatics UNPAR. The most impressive thing about him is his endless smile, peaceful tone and huge humbleness rarely find in most people!

Eldwin and his brother Jevfin started OwnGames on 2011. Today, people know Tahu Bulat Games more than they know about OwnGames 🙂 Yes, because Tahu Bulat beat Clash of Clans position on Playstore 😉

In the beginning of the journey, OwnGames created games for Nokia

The game won lots of competition. Eldwin who was applying to take a master degree had to cancel because he had to run the busy and successful OwnGames.

And then Microsoft bought Nokia so OwnGames started to create games for Windows Phone too.

And it won again.

OwnGames created more games on Windows Phone, Android and iOS

And won again 🙂

Winning lots of competition brought OwnGames all over the world to meet more people and partners

And OwnGames kept creating and winning 🙂

But creating games needs research

Because even partnering with Google and being featured on Google Play only boost the number of installation for a very short time, and then people stop using the game and uninstall the game

So OwnGames did some research to find out that 74% of internet user via mobile using Android

But the yellow line, that shows the growing number of user, belong to “unknown”. Not one of the most popular brand 🙂

It was revealed that there are some non-famous brand in the market that have been sold more than those popular brands 🙂

This kind of smartphone is very cheap. Much cheaper than Samsung and other popular brands.

The cheap smartphones has very limited storage and memory. It can only store limited number of apps.

So OwnGames concluded that they had to create games that only require small space. Because to be able to draw people to download and try a game is that the size should be small so it will fit in most of smartphones.

The details about memory usage on smartphone

OwnGames created Own Super Squad, a high quality game (that requires lots of resource to create) that has big size and Own Pet Dragon, with less quality but has small size, and compare it. Own Super Squad got better rating but less download compared to Own Pet Dragon that has worse rating but has been download more than 100 thousand times due to its small size.

Not only quota that is limited. Memory too.

Revenue of Freemium Game depends on how long the game is on the device (not uninstalled) and being played.

Tahu Bulat is successful because of the small size and lots of features to keep people coming back. The left one is the earlier versions with less features. After OwnGames gathered feedback from users, it gradually improved the game to be the picture on the right. More features, more gimmick, more things that keep people attached to the game.

“Start small..

..and gradually improve it to be BIG.” – OwnGames

So inspiring! Thank you!!!

This is Azriel, another ProCodeCG Kids that couldn’t stop playing Tahu Bulat 😀

Q & A Sessions

And the picture of us 🙂

After session

And this is the amazing thing about this young CEO. He helped to tidy up the place!

Unbelievable!

So glad to know OwnGames and got inspired with so many insights 🙂 See you again very soon OwnGames 🙂 ❤

ProCodeCG codeMeetUp() #80 – Pawitra Studio – Fire Simulation in Blender

Pawitra Studio shared about Fire Simulation in Blender on our 80th codeMeetUp() 5 Sept 2016 🙂 This is Technical Director of Pawitra Studio: Aditya A. Pratama 😉

The audience 🙂

New version of Blender

The process

The files generated

Some examples

More example on how to do the simulation

And this is what it looks on our laptop 🙂 Pretty interesting!

Us! 🙂

The video will be uploaded to our YouTube Channel 🙂

ProCodeCG codeMeetUp() #77 – Labtek Indie – Developing VR with Unity

On our 77th codeMeetUp, CTO and co-founder of Labtek Indie, Adityo Pratomo shared about Developing VR with Unity 🙂

He’s also a Chief Academic Officer at Froyo Framework and a Certified Unity Developer (notice the code number 😉 )

Labtek Indie has been developing VR and doing lots of research about it

Some examples of VR being developed in Labtek Indie

The topics of the talk

About VR technology

Desktop vs Mobile

Current VR Platforms

Looking from the tech side

and from the business side

There are lots of things to be improved about VR experience. The biggest problem is removing simulation sickness.

Future prediction about VR

The audience

Thanks for coming!

A very impressive and comprehensive presentation about the state of art of VR,  thanks so much Labtek Indie 🙂

ProCodeCG Kids Coding Exhibition 2016

ProCodeCG Kids Exhibition 2016! We had 13 kids presenting their codes (2 kids work in a team) 🙂

These are the kids presenting their awesome works today!

From left to right (back): Rezandra, Malik, Farrell, Clarence, Tyo, Edo, Ardi, Azriel

From left to right (front): Zaky, Awa, Faris, Muhammad, Cinta

Setting up before the presentation. This is Clarence

Tyo

Ardi

Zaky

Awa

Look at these incredible 8 yo s 🙂 Awa and Zaky

Zaky turned his chair around to see the big monitor better

And Awa looks so proud of his Arduino board project 😉

 

Farrell

Cinta

We had to switch to several laptop so Cinta can display her work on screen

First presentation: Malik – Jack O Lantern Game in Java

Posing with the coding Godfather, Prof. Budi Rahardjo 😉

The game is written in Java, using Eclipse as the IDE

The second presentation: Azriel – “Music in Python”

Azriel create a code in Python that can play music notes by reading a file of numbers

And then Clarence – “Arduino Basics”. Clarence one of the first ProCodeCG Kids exploring Arduino. He presented Arduino basic project, writing a code that will light up LEDs on breadboard from left to right back and forth with random delay. He also set up the breadboard.

The code

Clarence is a very focus and smart kid, but he is very shy 🙂

 

So that Prof. BR had to help him explaining 🙂

After that it was Cinta’s turn. The only ProCodeCG Kid girl in this exhibition 🙂

She presented a game of Trash Sorting in GameMaker

Cinta is a very smart and confident kid. Doing presentation in front of many people is not a problem for her 😉

Then Farrell presented his work about Solar System in Python 🙂

Farrell created a code to draw planets orbits trailings, in Python. He uses real data from NASA 🙂

Next is Faris presenting his work: ProCodeCG Webview in Android Studio”

He created an apps to read a web 🙂

After that, Tyo and Edo presented their “Adventure Game in GameMaker”

The game is very educative. It has some dialogs that give hints how to solve the problems

And when the player get the correct answer, it will continue the adventure

Next is Ardi: “Animation in Minecraft”. Ardi created an animation inside Minecraft by creating frames and activate them one by one using redstone.

Then Zaky present his work : Burning Rocket in GreenFoot 🙂 He created the presentation slides!

This 8 yo kid rocks! He is very confident 🙂

He joined Java Programming topic of ProCodecG Kids Coding Camp last July and he has been progressing. A lot!!!

After that is Rezandra: Space Explorer in GameMaker

A very interesting game, many levels 🙂 Rezandra has several games in hand but he just presented this one 🙂

Then Muhammad, presenting “World Run Go”, a game created with Construct

A very interesting game with LOTS of levels! 🙂

Then the last but not least: Awa! 🙂 This 8 yo is one of those ProCodeCG Kids who is really interested to development board 🙂

 

His created code and circuit to turn on a line of red and white LED’s alternately 🙂 A very awesome work for our independence day today 😉

And this is the food, powered by Parents! Thanks so much!

And the audience, thanks for coming!

And this is what happen behind the scene 🙂

Capt. Fizhan making documentation

And what’s inside the server room 😀 Thanks to Capt. Zaki and Digilife Team for their fully supporting us! They made sure things work for EACH kid 🙂 thanks so much!!!

Hoping to see you again next year maybe?

So proud to be part of bringing out the best of these kids to give a better future for Indonesia!

ProCodeCG codeMeetUp #72 – Photogrammetry

Our 72nd codeMeetUp() last Monday was an open workshop by Pawitra Studio about Photogrammetry 🙂 Bintang Senja, CG Supervisor of Pawitra Studio demonstrated how to generate 3D model from pics/photos!

The process of taking pics

We needed at least 50 pics

from every angle possible

Then all the pics went through processing

The process was done using AutoDesk Remake

 

After the modeling process was finished, the .obj file was being edited in Blender

Whoaaa, the result!!! Crazy awesome!!!

ProCodeCG codeMeetUp() #66 – Sebangsa.com

Hello!!! Yesterday’s ProCodeCG codeMeetUp() #66 was superbly awesome! We had the legendary Enda Nasution (you know, the Indonesia Blogger Father and so on) and the Founder and CEO of Sebangsa.com!

For everything we do, we should ask why 🙂

For Sebangsa.com, the answer for the why (is community?) is Indonesia is a community-based nation 🙂

From community to Indonesia. This nation is built up by communities.

LOTS of community. That’s why communities are powerful and bring significant effect

The correlation between community and social media

The form of community grows from time to time, driven by technology

And Sebangsa.com comes as a social media for Indonesian community

Sebangsa.com answer the need of social media for community. Which is not provided by any other platform.

By 2016, Sebangsa.com has reached 30,000 users

Filling the gaps between social media and instant messaging, Sebangsa offers lots of thing!

It has interesting features

With interesting GUI design

Sebangsa can find community based on recommendation

It enable us to make and manage new communities

Every community will have its identity and information on its profile page

The mascot of Sebangsa: Monster Angklung 😉

Communities can interact with each other on this awesome platform 🙂

It’s also easy to find and join communities

This is an example of a user profile. The will get badges too.

The timeline

Sebangsa also has its trending pages 😉

So, Sebangsa.com is a comprehensive solution for Indonesian Community.

Sebangsa.com was born after a long journey

It covers various communities

It has 1105 communities listed in their directory and still counting

The advisory board of Sebangsa

Sebangsa initiated “Bangkit Komunitas” on Feb 2016

It also initiated Kopdar #100 Komunitas on 9 April 2016

And it also created a super community for Indonesia Migrant Workers! (how cool is that)

The acquisition target users

The team

And this is how to contact Sebangsa.

The audience 😉

Sebangsa.com souvenirs give away 😉

Pak Budi Rahardjo handed over the souvenir to one of the audience who answered the question given correctly yeaaay 🙂

And this is us!!!

We are an awesome community! 😉 ❤

ProCodeCG codeMeetUp() #64 – How to be A Creative Animator

Today we’re lucky to have Founder and CEO of Kumata Studio, Daryl Wilson to share about “How to be A Creative Animator – Not Just Being Productive” 🙂

We had lots of audience today!

Kumata Studio founded in 2006. Reaching the 10th years, it has done many works including animation services, web development and graphic design. It has also won lots of awards.

One of Kumata Studio animation products is Miles and Stone, a story about a tapir and a mongoose, that are local animals living in a rain forest in Sumatra. Miles and Stone are working as delivery men.

Kumata also has Biggy Buddy 🙂

Galli Leo Lei 🙂

Ted Sparx

And this interesting story about local ghosts: The Demits 😀

Si Juki is also a very successful product. Si Juki is a sequel of short animation posted on social media.

Now, the tips and trick to be a creative animator

What is animation?

Animation is picture, sequence, time, movements, lots of pictures, story, cartoon.

So animation is illusion

The creative process of making animation is finding problem, doing research, brainstorming, filtering, production and evaluation.

Understand the problem comprehensively. Make notes. Ask questions. Don’t be selfish and make assumptions. Make confirmation. Seek for confirmation.

Do research. Collect and make list of references. Use the best references. You should know when to stop researching and start to work.

In brainstorming process, squeeze out your best ideas. Challenge the initial idea. Ask for opinions and be open for critics. Remember the problem/targets.

How to filter ideas? How to filter the best from the best? Complicated is not always good. Simplicity is not always a sign of laziness.

Production time! Time to animate! Manage time according to your capacity to be able to delivery the work that comply with target, on time.

Evaluation process is to evaluate the result. Find out things that work and which one don’t.

The good new is that Kumata Studio is hiring! It is offering internship too 🙂

Daryl Wilson is also the Chief of Ainaki, an association for animation and creative industry in Indonesia.

The target member of Ainaki:

Visit http://www.ainaki.or.id for further information.

And this is us! As happy as always! 🙂