Archives for November 2010
Posted on November 25, 2010
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Wonkavision Interactive Mirror
Wonkavision is an Interactive Mirror used for Wonka Candy's Bamboozled music tour. My role involved programming 3 interactive games (Maze, Photo Hunt, and Artboard) that featured Wonka Candy.
Posted on November 25, 2010
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Community Core Vision (CCV)
Community Core Vision (CCV) is a computer vision framework for multitouch and other emerging interaction types. I co-founded and developed CCV for Google Summer of Code in 2008. It has since been downloaded over 1,000,000 times and utilized by companies, researchers, and hobbyists around the world.
Posted on November 25, 2010
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Multi-touch Mini
The Multi-touch mini is an inexpensive multi-touch pad that can be built within a few minutes. I created a 'MTmini' tutorial on how to build the pad for the purpose of sharing the technology and introducing a low cost solution. The video currently has nearly 2 million views.
Posted on November 25, 2010
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Squirrel Mobile Pollution Monitors
The Squirrel Mobile Pollution Monitor is a device, created by Shannon Spanhake, that measures pollution levels and can interface with various mobile devices. I developed a playful interface for Shannon to showcase the device's capabilities. The interface displays on a cell phone the current pollution levels (ppm) and animates environmental changes based on those levels.
Posted on November 25, 2010
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Audiotouch Multi-touch Enviornment
AudioTouch is an interactive multi-touch interface for computer music exploration and collaboration. The interface features audio based applications that make use of multiple users and simultaneous touch inputs on a single multi-touch screen.
Posted on November 25, 2010
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Live Composer
Live Composer is a interactive music exploration application. Physical blocks (with fiduciary symbols) are moved around on a table and correlate to time and pitch. Moving the blocks creates a visual within a flash interface that notates and plays back the composition in real-time.
Posted on November 25, 2010
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Analog Laser Harp
The Analog Laser Harp is a project I conceptualized as my final project for an electronic technologies course at UCSD in 2006. When a hand crosses a laser's beam, a analog tone is generated and produced by 4 speakers embedded in the instrument. The harp has tuning knobs to allow for various musical scales.
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Posted on November 18, 2010
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An OpenKinect Story: A made for blog special.
- “The Open Kinect project – THE OK PRIZE – get $3,000 bounty for Kinect for Xbox 360 open source drivers” – adafruit.com
- “Kinect Drivers Hacked” – readwriteweb.com
- “Google’s Matt Cutts Issues New $2000 Kinect Bounty” – pcmag.com
- “First sign of skeletal data from the kinect…” – @openkinect twitter
If you’ve been following the Microsoft Kinect release over the past week, you’ve probably seen headlines like the above. They’re interesting, energetic, compelling, and generally the same. By Reading through Gizmodo, Engadget or any ‘major’ blogging outlet, you’ll see that progress and results are moving fast and any attempt to regurgitate them and I’d probably put you to sleep (if you’re not already).
The press often glorifies results (what’s been accomplished) over