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About Me

seth bio About MeHi, I’m Seth!

I think too much; therefore, I am too much (if you follow Descartes). Lucky, thinking comes in handy – most of the time.

People tell me I’m most notably known for creating the Multitouch Mini (MTmini), Audiotouch, being co-founder and developer of Community Core Vision  (CCV/tbeta),  and former chief community offier of NUIGroup.

As a creative, I think it’s a rule that I’m not allowed to have a standard bio. However, if I did, it’d probably sound something like:

“My name is Seth Sandler and I am a musician, educator, researcher, developer, tinkerer and artist. I have a degree in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts with an emphasis in Music from the University of California, San Diego. I have a background in both music and art and often focus on how they relate to each other. I also have an interest in education and have taught music and leadership at High Schools throughout the Southern California area. I’m currently pursuing research and development in the area of natural user and  multi-touch interfaces.”

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  • Nat

    Seth you are an amazing guy! I remember back in the day you showed me all the music making stuff on the computer so I am not surprised at all that you followed your dream to create such an awesome thing!!! congrats, -nat and nicki

  • http://www.jsynnott.com/blog jsynnott

    Hi Seth,
    As part of my final year project I’m investigating the use of non-traditional input methods in computer games for the PC. I’ve been using Microsoft Touchless, and I’ve a few videos of my progress so far on my blog. Just seen your video of using the paper with glass over a box to use shadows as markers, that’s an amazing idea, and is something which I’m definitely going to try out, as it helps stay away from the issues of using coloured markers which may interfere with the colours of a user’s surroundings.

    Jonathan

  • cerupcat

    Sounds great Jonathan. I recommend you come join us at nuigroup.com/forum where we have a whole community of people doing work in this field. :)

  • alejandro zanoni

    hi seth
    i´m from cordoba – argentina and I want to know if you can tell me where I can found the sources of your “live composer” reactivision+puredata+flash. thanks you!!!
    your work is amazing!!!

  • http://www.adobe.com aflexwrold

    Hi Seth,
    I’ll make sure to follow your blog as well and will check out your work and apps.

    Cheers,
    alex

  • cerupcat

    Thanks Alex :)

    Feel free to let me know your thoughts on any of this.

    -Seth

  • http://wiiteach.net David

    Seth,
    Im a 24 year old 6th grade teacher looking to add some sweet technology to my classroom. I’m been researching MT tables for a while now. Your table is exactly what I was looking for. Have you written any detailed instructions yet. I’ve searched your site for a while now and cant seem to find anything. Keep up the good work.

    Dave

  • timominous

    Another one seth,

    My name is Seth Sandler (25) and I am MUSICIAN, educator, researcher, developer, and artist (not always at the same time).

  • LEO

    Hi, Seth.
    We have all the required hardware. And install MTmini Package software, as well as Flash Player 9, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 x86 redistributable package, Java 1.6 + . in accordance with your slide [MTmini - Getting Started.pdf] .And we worked successfully for each step ,including the Smoke Demo & Windows Mousedriver .But Flash Applications can’t be successed. And I do the step1(Server) and step2( Gateway). The result is the same as the slide but I can not do the Flash Demos(The step3). What is the problem we meet?

  • http://www.matthewreichardt.com Matthew Reichardy

    Leo: The problem your having is from not setting your flash global security settings I am pretty sure. To do this click here, and add the location where all of your mt apps are, set to always allow, good luck :)

  • vishesh

    hi,
    i just made the mtmini from all the videos n tuts…i have it working but its very bumpy,i can see the photo demo working but the things just goes nuts…what are the ideal settings or how does the tracking screen look like…could you post a video showing your app window…so we can see a working mtmini’s tracking screen.

    also is it possible to develop a small app which can send out midi signals…probable and 8 fader panel which can be configured to send midi messages…i wish i knew how to program apps,
    if u guys can do it,this will be the most practical use of such an input device…a midi controller.

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  • http://whaleboneir.com James McLain

    Seth,

    This is really brilliant work. I have an idea for another program. I know that it’s possible but I don’t have time to work on it myself.

    You know the awesome visualization that are built into Windows Media Player? I’m sure you’ve noticed that most of them have sort of one or two “generator” blobs out of which come flowing all of the graphics, and then the graphics react to whatever sound file is being played, but they still have a sort of gravity that pulls them into certain streams. Well, can we get ahold of or create code that processes sound like that but lets people re-locate the generators with a touch or a drag, but other wise the music would keep streaming, and maybe if no touches are being detected the generators flow back to their default locations? This would really put people into the music. What do you think?

    James.

  • http://www.angelreyna.com Angel Reyna Jr.

    I was inspired by Pranav Mistral idea on combining mobile device, portable projector and multitouch capabilities making it accessible anytime anywhere. I’m thinking of making one for myself. I was wondering how did he connect it to the mobile device? Does anyone here knows how he did it? Most of the examples ive seen are using desktop computers. He mentioned that he will be sending out the source code but still couldnt found it. I guess its just part of his marketing scheme. Please help.

  • jesse

    hi Seth just wanted to say thank you for everything you have done i am having a great time with it

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