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[29 Mar 2010 | 2 Comments | 527 views]
Proud to announce the open beta launch of techsparked.com! Call for participation!!

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After lots of hard work, I am proud to announce the open beta launch of a new social platform I’ve been developing for creative and emergent interactive technology called techsparked. If you like my blog, the MTmini, Audiotouch or any of my work – you’re going to love techsparked!

techsparked creates a platform for sharing, learning, discussing, promoting, and meeting people with interests in spreading information in new ways and between people through the use of creative and emergent interactive technology. techsparked …

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[30 Oct 2009 | 4 Comments | 501 views]
Surround Cinema featuring Recombinant Media Labs

I’ve been meaning to write about this for some time, but finally found the right time.
In June/July, I helped work on a combined project with University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Recombinant Media Labs (RML).
The install was a reinstall of a previous setup. It consited of 10 individual screens 12 feet wide x 6 feet 9 inches tall. Together they formed a rectangle 24 feet x 36 feet. 10 projectors, 1 per screen, projected on each screen to create a full 360 surround experience. The setup was complimented by …

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[4 Jul 2009 | One Comment | 552 views]
Revisiting the Art World

I’ve been going through and trying to collect and organize things on my computer and happened to find some old artwork. I’m hoping to eventually get time to revisit some of the more visual and artistic times I used to have time for.
Here’s a glimpse of some of my past work. I’d love to hear what you think!
These include: pen and ink and pencil drawings, illustrator and photoshop work, logo and magazine design and some other random manipulations.
Check out some of the dates on these; I feel old.
So? What’s your …

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[14 May 2009 | 12 Comments | 6,629 views]
Super Cool Multitouch Actionscript Fluid Solver

Eugene has just ported Memo’s fluid solver work to AS3 http://blog.inspirit.ru/?p=248. With the source now out, I was able to quickly add multitouch support and it works great! Thanks to cyandesign and simpleex for keeping me on my toes.
A couple notes, the touchlib AS3 classes had to be corrected since they currently don’t send dX and dY values which the fluid solver needs to calculate directional velocity. Other than that, things went fairly smoothly and took little time to make touch sensitive.

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[22 Dec 2008 | 9 Comments | 3,990 views]
Bloom – Multitouch Music Application

Well, it’s about time I released another application right? If anyone has ever played Bloom on the iphone, I’m sure you’ll recognize my port from iphone to table.
If you’re not familiar with bloom, it’s a very simple music creation application. Press anywhere on the screen to create circles that grow and ‘bloom.’ As they fade out and re-appear, they play a note. The note is based on the x-axis. As you move right, the notes go higher.

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How to use:
-Press on screen (mouse, touch, multi-touch)
-Rollover/touch/click already …

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[30 Oct 2008 | One Comment | 1,451 views]
AudioTouch – Event 2

Here’s some pictures from the second event where AudioTouch was on display.

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[22 Oct 2008 | 11 Comments | 3,985 views]
The Beta – tbeta – IT”S HERE!!! New mac/win/linux tracker!

It’s been a loooong way for many of you, but finally the new tracker has been made public!
Checkout the tbeta website where you can download and read the getting started full guide to see how easy it is to use!
http://tbeta.nuigroup.com
note: if you like the old touchlib tracker better, you can still use it if you’re on windows.

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[21 Feb 2008 | 27 Comments | 20,234 views]
Finished Table

Well, I haven’t been able to post everything leading up to this point yet, but I wanted to get the finished images up. I’ll be writing about the process up to this point soon so that there are no gaps in the “how to” of building my table.