Hi,
October 29th I'm giving a talk about r_cycle, an open source library/middleware for creative coding with Launchpad, at the Novation pop-up shop in Shoreditch, London.
About the library/middleware: r_cycle allows to fully control Launchpad from Pd (bi-directional communication), giving the user the possibility to interact with the device, to create custom UIs in real-time, on-the-fly, simply creating specific objects (part of the library) in Pd. It has different 'widgets' and audio/MIDI/utilities objects, all written in Pd Vanilla, thus doesn't use any external. For example creating the [KEYBOARD] object in your patch, would generate a 'chromatic keyboard' on the LP (1 octave/12 notes keyboard represented on the pads). This would be interactive (ie you press a pad part of the keyboard UI on the Launchpad and the object in the patch returns one or more values) and can be deleted simply deleting the [KEYBOARD] object in Pd. It is possible to use multiple widgets at the same time (you can fill the Launchpad layout), and also to call multiple scenes.
If you're in London on Tue and you wanna know more, here's more details about the event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/novation-london-learn-hackspace-r-cycle-creat...
Cheers, Mario