With my talk coming up at All Things Open, I recently wrote an article about why and how I got started in doing digital art. In retrospect, it is amazing how learning the tools discussed in this article changed the way that I approach software. Huge thanks to Processing, Arduino, and the entire open source community for what they do; I am honored to be a small part of such a wonderful community.
You can check out my article How Open Soure is Enabling the Digital Art Age at https://opensource.com/life/16/10/how-open-source-enabling-digital-art-age.