Flash Gordon - Interactive Mediagician

Man in Space - FWA Mobile of the Day!

2011-06-13T10:31:00.000+01:00

I'm extremely happy to announce that our first iPad App 'Man in Space' has won the FWA 'Mobile of the Day' award on www.thefwa.com. For those of you that don't know, the FWA is an industry recognised site that gives awards to websites and other digital products of excellence.

Man in Space iPad App - Video

2011-05-26T09:55:00.002+01:00

Check out the video of the App in action demonstrated from by Dan and Will from the Sky at Night Magazine team.

Our first iPad App is now available in the App Store

2011-05-07T14:16:00.000+01:00

I am very pleased to announce that our first iPad App - Man in Space, is now available in the App Store. It's an interactive book all about manned space flight through history right up to the present day. For those of you lucky enough to have an iPad here is a link to it. Even if you don't have one go take a look. There is a full description and several screenshots.

P.S. it's currently ranked 14th in the USA!

Award Winning Team

2010-06-26T18:03:00.002+01:00

Yesterday in work the results of the BBC Magazine awards were revealed and I'm very happy to say that the BBC Customer Publishing team won the Innovation award for the interactive digital magazines they produce. So kudos to Julie Williams, Alison Hazell, Paul McIntyre, Pat Reid, Alun Harris, Cavan Scott and last but not least, Kerry Bradshaw and - me! The two Flash developers that build the magazines.

Add the Facebook like button to your Blog or Website

2010-05-16T22:05:00.003+01:00

Did you know you can add a Facebook like button to your blog or website easily without having to do anything with API's or code?
just paste the code below into your blog template or webpages/articles or posts.
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Don't forget - if you like this post - press the button!

I've been recruited!

2010-02-06T16:53:00.000Z

I'm happy to announce that as of 28th Jan I am a Junior developer for magazine services in the city of Bristol. Its a great place to work and I am part of a young dynamic team of developers and designers. My work will be a nice mixture of XHTML, CSS, Flash, PHP and Drupal and who knows.... The ethos of the online team is to learn and share knowledge and they run skill swap afternoons and support creativity to the max! I'm very happy to work there :)

Video Cube

2010-01-27T13:17:00.001Z

activeden tweeted about this a while ago describing it "this is one of the coolest flash things I've seen". I think its pretty cool too - take a look for yourself

Link: 101 five minute fixes incrementally improve your website

2010-01-18T21:39:00.000Z

If you're like me and you find it hard to get inspired to update your website or portfolio, this post is really useful 101 five minute fixes incrementally improve your website

Bilbao By Dusk

2009-12-10T23:04:00.001Z

After the press launch we went for an awesome lunch and then we took a ride up the funicular tramway to a high point and overlooked the city as the sunset. Somebody let me have a go with a real camera and here is a selection of my shots of Bilbao in the dusk....

Metro Installation

2009-12-09T23:54:00.003Z

Today we installed the exhibition in the Casco Riejo Metro station which involved hanging the 12 large panels on the tunnel walls. we also quickly inflated the photosphere which will be there for the opening tomorrow (9th Dec) morning. There will also be a press conference. Here are some pictures taken on my phone, there will be some nice PR shots tomorrow.

Friday in Bilbao

2009-12-05T06:24:00.004Z

Went down in to the City yesterday to Bilbao Arté (thats the art centre you know) where we were to meet a van with 12 2.5x1 metre prints. They soon arrived in a van and we hurriedly offloaded them so that Bilbao's traffic flow wasn't too impeded. After struggling up 2 flights of stairs we unwrapped them and they were carefully scrutinized by people with eyes that work.
It seemed all was not well. There were bubbles, bands, wrong colors and I suspect, other more mysterious anomalies all of which were to the obvious displeasure of Matt and Janire. A phone call followed and if you have never heard an angry Spanish woman on the phone let me tell you; it makes a humming birds wing beats seem positively slow. Rapide!
Still, there was fun to be had on Matts new bike on the way home.

Divine Comedy

2009-12-03T22:52:00.004Z

Well what a mission that was. I left Newport at 10.30 on Wednesday morning on a national express (without a jolly hostess) and from there it all went downhill. The driver announced over his magic microphone that the diesel gauge wasn't working and, even though he thought there would be enough fuel, he wanted to make absolutely sure so we would be stopping at the garage to fill up. This took 20 minutes. My connection in London was 15 minutes after this bus was due to arrive - which the driver informed me - I should never have been booked on because the company always allow 40 minutes for a connection. But it wasn't all bad. The guy opposite me had clearly been a master of deception at some time in his life because I didn't notice him drinking - or even that he was drunk - until he got his old boy out and started urinating where he sat!
I moved to a different seat.
When we were off the motorway he moved to the pavement.
So I got to Victoria Station and caught the A6 national express to Stansted airport. At this point I still had an outside chance of making my flight - that is until we turned out of the bus station. From there on all the way out of London and on the M25 the traffic was a nightmare.
So I got off at the airport and asked when the next flight to Bilbao was. At 17.15 I was told - tomorrow!
Great. Now I had to work out what to do for 24 hours. After some investigating I found that there was a Holiday Inn on the airport, but at £69 a night I thought **** that. So my friend Matt sorted it for me to stay with his parents in Colchester, about an hour away. So I checked out the buses from Stansted. Guess what - National Express! So I asked the guy in the national express office what time the next bus to Colchester was. "8 pm, bay 28" he informed me. I thanked him and went to find a seat for 2/12 hours. I made it to bay 28 in good time and waited for my bus. And waited. And waited a bit longer. I then went into the office again to ask where the 8 o'clock bus to Colchester was. The new monkey behind the desk informed that it had left at 8pm. I was of course perplexed by this and explained my state of bewilderment to the monkey who told me between bananas that I should have been at bay 22. I now had to wait until 9pm. I manged to get the 9pm bus and I'm glad to say that Matts Dad was waiting at the station for me and drove me back to his house where I was far more comfortable than I would have been in a £69 a night Holiday Inn room. Apart from walking a mile in the rain with all my luggage to catch the bus this morning, the rest of today went very well - mainly because I was sure to arrive 2 hours earliy for everything!
Anyway, I'm happy to say that i am writing this from the Ghosts in Armour residence in Bilbao. And I ~~recommend~~ National Express for all your budget journeys.
Adios.

Balloon Bass and Box

2009-11-23T13:37:00.002Z

I'm really not one of these thats trawls TYoutube all day long watching funny/weird/wacky/cool videos and sending links to everyone via every possible form of social media but.....

This is cool honestly

Beautiful Flash 3D

2009-11-17T17:55:00.004Z

This is just so nice. I'm not going to say anymore. Just go look for yourself

Cubo Realidad Aumentada

2009-10-04T11:00:00.003+01:00

Hola Amigos!

I am in Bilbao, Spain on the last day of the Jetlag BIO festival. If you didn't already know we are here to run an Interactive Augmented Reality stand that is a kind of information point for festival goers. I will write a more detailed post with pictures soon but for now you can go to urbanreaction.org, click on "interact" and follow the instructions to have a play with the "Augmented Reality Cube" or as I like to call it "Cubo Realidad Aumentada".

Interactive Flame Thrower

2009-09-09T06:37:00.004+01:00

Just for fun, a little bit of experimentation and a bit of insomnia. I've never used Flash's ability to read microphone input so I thought I would check it out. Its actually quite limited in terms of accessing the raw data (although there is an online petition to get Adobe to allow access to raw mic data, and some cool stuff here). All you need to do is blow at your microphone and make flames!
Try it for yourself

Javascript/Flash mp3 Player

2009-09-05T10:01:00.005+01:00

I was recently asked if I could make a Flash mp3 player that was controlled with Javascript. Obviously my first question was why on earth would you want (or need) to do that? The answer I got was perfectly understandable. To have the ability to integrate the Flash element seamlessly into HTML content. In other words the links would be normal HTML links that when clicked played the song in the Flash player. Of course this also has the benefit of streamed content speeds, the user doesn't have to download anything. Flash's ExternalInterface class is the key to this solution, it makes linking from ActionScript to Javascript a piece of cake.
Here's an example. The white pixel in the top left corner of the grey panel is the the Flash content (it's white to show you can see it).

Sometimes I surprise myself....

2009-08-29T20:30:00.003+01:00

I am working on my portfolio/website at the moment, in between other things, and since I'm only putting my email address on my contact page for now, I thought it needed something to fill the space. I had an idea to use my business cards since they hold my contact details and I had thought of using Papervision3D and making an interactive card that flips over etc. but came up with the idea you see above. I'm really pleased with the way it came out so I'm sticking with it for now (I surprise myself because I'm generally really bad at graphics).

Flash Developer available for work...

2009-08-19T23:54:00.002+01:00

Well I'm still looking for a job but in the mean time if you need any Flash work done, whether its a website, image gallery, template - anything Flash related, let me know. I can also offer web related services including HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL.

SoundMixer.computeSpectrum + Timeline Audio

2009-08-10T21:39:00.009+01:00

I am posting this little Flash ActionScript hint here in case somebody googles the same problem...

When a sound is embedded directly in the timeline of a Flash movie as opposed to being loaded dynamically, using the SoundMixer.computeSpectrum() method doesn't work. Well, sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. I had a working sound visualiser when I went to bed last night, and this morning I didn't. No changes to the code at all.
After a lot of googling I found this post by Jason Van Cleave on the [Flashcoders] mailing list. Thanks Jason!

Basically you have to load in an mp3 of silence, assign it to a channel and play it. Then your spectrum analyzer will work with your intended sound/music.

I know - its weird!

I also found loads of posts about how it is not a true spectrum analyser yadder, yadder which were quite interesting. If you like that kind of thing...

[CODE]
// Strange silent mp3 hack
var s:Sound = new Sound(new URLRequest("2sec.mp3"));
var channel:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
channel = s.play();

var ba:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
var g:Graphics = this.graphics;
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);

function loop(e:Event):void
{

SoundMixer.computeSpectrum(ba, true, 4);
g.clear();
g.lineStyle(3, 0xFFFFFF, 1);
g.beginFill(0xC11226);
g.moveTo(0, 250);

for(var i:uint=0; i<256; i++)
{
var num:Number = -ba.readFloat() * 500;
g.drawRect(i*2, 250, 2, num/15);
}

}

[CODE]

FLAR Adaptive Threshold

2009-08-10T13:27:00.003+01:00

FLAR-What? I hear you ask.

It simply means that FLAR Augmented Reality now works in varied and (more importantly) variable lighting conditions. Which means great news for us when we go to Jetlag BIO in september!

Eric Socolofsky is the guy behind this fantastic addition to the world of FLAR (though not the inventor as it were). Read more at his blog

Back from Bilbao

2009-07-17T16:44:00.003+01:00

Hey it's been a while amigos!

So I just (two weeks ago!) got back from my first expedition to Bilbao and I gotta say - "I ****kin love that place!" Not just Bilbao, the area in general. It was carnival season when I was there and every weekend a different town had a carnival with loads of live music so i was in Spanish heaven!
The last day was the most fun, we went to Vueltas San Juan Y San Pedro in Najera. The idea is to dance around the town all day drinking and throwing wine over everybody! Awesome! There is a video below so you can get an idea. It's a lot more fun than it looks believe me!

There are loads of musicians with saxaphones, trumpets and drums and Free wine. Woo hoo!

We also did some serious research while we were in Bilbao but thats for another post maybe....

Adios amigos!

Out Of The Other Side

2009-06-09T10:30:00.004+01:00

Phew! My degree is officially finished! And I got a first so I'm stoked!
So you would think I would have some time on my hands - no way! I'm as busy as ever!

We (Ghosts in Armour) have got the Jetlag gig in Bilbao in October. Woot! Jetlag Bio is a very cool Participatory Arts Festival that is held for three days and boasts among other very talented exhibitors/participants The Graffiti research Lab. If you haven't seen their work check it out here - its very cool. We will be doing a kind of interactive augmented reality installation. More about that in a later post.

My website is now live www.gordoneverett.co.uk but far from finished. It also has some augmented reality on it - click on my business card and check it out (you will need to print out a card).

I'm really excited about another project I'm working on but unfortunately I can't blog about it just yet. Suffice it to say it could be a very successful and lucrative endeavour...

Multitouch Sphere

2009-04-27T23:55:00.002+01:00

jBolton over at nuigroup is working on this Multitouch sphere and he's doing pretty well considering. When I get some time I think I'll make one....

Twmbarlwm Two

2009-04-19T23:32:00.005+01:00

Amazing views...

The top!

So this time I did it! I got to the top! You have to do a bit of carrying to get your bike up there as well but its worth it for the amazing views and the sense of achievement. Coming down is fun too. Oh, and I got a new bike (again) and its sooooo much better than the last one.For instance it didn't break.

Vote For Mr Squidling!

2009-04-15T20:47:00.003+01:00

Mr Squidling - Augmented Reality Demo from Gordon Everett on Vimeo.
So I entered the Augmented reality contest over at the Papervision3D forum. You can see my entry here. You need to have a webcam on your monitor that you can point down at your desk just in front of your keyboard. Then you need to print out the special marker (link provided on the page) and follow the instructions.

Voting starts tomorrow!

How Green Is My Valley?

2009-04-13T18:18:00.004+01:00

What a lovely place Wales is. This was taken from halfway up a mountain called Twmbarlwm near Newport. The view was great but getting there was a little traumatic. We went on our bikes - a 17 mile round trip. And it did hurt a bit...

Video of our Multitouch Interface (at last)!

2009-04-10T21:51:00.006+01:00

Multi-touch interface from Reaction Faction on Vimeo.

This is the Interactive Table we (Reaction Faction) made for Ghosts in Armour last year. It was exhibited for six weeks in the Riverfront in Newport UK. Hope you like it! (Arm and hand model available at cheap rates! :) )

My Augmented Reality Progress

2009-04-04T08:35:00.008+01:00

So I'm currently using Google Chrome to upload images. Its a ridiculous situation but its the only browser that works....

So anyway, just thought I'd post a screenshot of my Augmented reality project I'm working on. Its hard to explain but, well here goes..... I'm holding a piece of card with a marker on it (something like the one below) in front of my webcam. When the webcam registers it the computer draws a box in its place and out of this box all sorts of things jump, including my name. Pretty cool eh? This is the demo that got us a gig at Creative Capital in Canary Wharf. The actual version we use there will be a bit different. I'll be sure to post a link for when its over so you can have a go yourselves.

Damn you Computer!

2009-04-04T01:11:00.003+01:00

At the moment I can't upload or download any images without my browser crashing. Don't know why, don't like it. It makes blogs very boring for everyone.

Work, work, work!!!

2009-03-20T22:49:00.004Z

I have got so much to do in uni that I haven't had much time to devote to experiments and creativity lately - well almost. All work and no play makes Flash a dull boy!
I have been playing with FLARToolkit, the augmented reality kit for Flash, but my results so far are less than good. I will of course be sharing them with you when I get it nailed.

Spent the entire day today experimenting with the infra red lighting in the interactive table. It was one of those "not getting anywhere then all of a sudden, just when you're about to give up something works!" kind of days. The upshot is I'm confident it will be working better than ever for gotoAndPlay09.

X-Dof effect in Papervision

2009-03-15T21:41:00.009Z

Speedok of the Flash community came up with this cool effect. I don't really know how to describe it but I like it! Click to change the shape/pattern and move your mouse around to distort it.

X-Dof = extreme depth of field

Augmented Reality Webcam Trickery

2009-03-14T10:54:00.008Z

If you don't know what Augmented Reality is then I'll tell you.

It's magic!

Well nearly, it's webcam magic. There's open source software available called ARToolkit in c++ or there's FLARToolkit for the Flash platform which is really taking off at the moment. In a month or two you'll probably be sick of it. This demo was put together by John Lindquist with some help from Seb Lee-Delisle and it rocks! Check out more AR examples on John's blog, Seb's blog or at squidder.

The Codfather of Sole!

2009-03-12T12:45:00.003Z

On tuesday my lifelong friend Matt "Dibbo" Dibbens and your's truly went to Barry Island (in South Wales) on a random excursion/expidition and we found the holy grail.
Boofy's chippy!

Unfortunayely it wasn't open so we couldn't sample the sole. We vowed to return with some talcum powder and a Curtis Mayfield LP and experience the full Boofy experience.

PV3D and Jiglib - Zupko does it again!

2009-03-05T17:46:00.006Z

Andy Zupko is a real clever guy. Just click on the image and check out this demo. Nuff said.

And to think I was really pleased with my Box2DAS3&PV3D demo....

Box2DAS3&PV3D (thats easy for me to say)

2009-03-05T00:58:00.007Z

I've got to write a CV, build my portfolio proper etc, etc so I've been playing again instead .... Thanks to John Linquist I've revisited Box2D physics but this time integratedit with Papervision3D. The cubes in the example can be picked up and thrown around and stacked etc. It would be nice to be able to move them on the z axis (backward and forwards) but well - one step at a time I always say :)
Oh and if you're wondering what the letters and stuff mean they are the letters of reactionfaction.
Enjoy!

Tin Foil?

2009-02-24T18:18:00.005Z

I revisited some old tutorials on Papervisio3D shaders and combined it with some AS3Dmod and came up with Tin Foil. I was going to call it "liquid metal" but, well its not really liquid is it?

Magic Carpet

2009-02-19T23:48:00.009Z

I tried out Bartek Drozdz' AS3Dmod classes for Flash 3D tonight and I'm extremely impressed, particularly at how easy it is to get cool results. AS3Dmod is a set of Modifiers like you would find in a 3D modelling application like Maya or 3DS Max. The Magic Carpet example uses the Perlin modifier.

As usual click on the image to see it in action.

Bartek does some great 3D work in Flash. Right now he's got a sweet car demo on his blog. Go and check it out.

Wow - 3D Motion Trails by Zupko in Papervision3D

2009-02-18T11:51:00.010Z

Andy Zupko of the Papervision3D development team has yet again produced some amazing work for all to share. If you use Papervision3D then head over to his blog and read up on it, otherwise just click the image to enjoy the eye-candy.

3D Carousel

2009-02-11T16:56:00.016Z

3D Carousel gallerys are nothing new on the web I know but I made one anyway.... most use papervision3D but this is entirely done in Flash CS4. Thanks to Lee Brimelow for the tutorial.

Click the image to see it in action. I think it looks nice...

The images are by Wright George photography (and are copyright).

The Strongest Truck in The World!

2009-01-27T17:46:00.005Z

This game is so cool and simple - and of course difficult to master. It's made using a combination of Papervision and (I suspect) Box 2DAS3. I have managed to flip it three times so far! See how you get on!

Long time posting...

2009-01-26T21:52:00.002Z

Haven't posted for a while mainly because I have been so busy previously with getting everything finished for Uni. It's all done now though. I'm spending the next couple of weeks on my other projects like virtual tours. Oh, and Ghosts In Armour is going to Bilbao in the Basque region! (Spain area) So we are putting a lot of energy in to finding funding, sponsors and organizing etc. Bilbao is (or was) also home to a declining Steel Industry - they even have the same transporter bridge.

My First Car

2008-12-17T21:33:00.004Z

I found this picture today (thanks to Claire and Phil for sending it to me a while ago), its not actually my first car but its much less embarassing!
Thats me sat inside although you can't really see me, outside Hash View in Blackwell Warwickshire, former home of Phillip "burn" Matthews! The shadows are Burn and Craig Begley, we were a posse at the time.
Those were the days....

Pointless Painting Powered by Papervision3D

2008-12-12T20:41:00.005Z

Being part of the Papervision3D community means I get sent links to new sites all the time and they're mostly very slick websites.
Well this one's different. There's absolutely no point to it at all except FUN!

Its by the guys at iq12 to celebrate their birthday. Check it out here.

Cool Digital Art

2008-12-03T17:31:00.003Z

I found this nice little piece while looking through Chu Yue's portfolio site (yes its a real name, not an improper suggestion!) and thought it was really nice. Its made with Papervision3D.

Cool Augmented Reality Using Papervision and Flash

2008-12-02T11:04:00.003Z

The guys over at BOFFSWANA have done something very cool using the FLARToolkit and Papervision3D. All you need is a webcam (and abit of AS3, Papervision and general Flash knowledge) and you can make little monsters appear to be walking around your desk! Go over and check it out on their site and leave them a comment if you think its cool. Which you do.

Papervision - Augmented Reality (extended) from Boffswana on Vimeo

The Spiralizer

2008-11-30T16:13:00.003Z

The Spiralizer is a different version of The Blade - almost the same but more reactive to the music.

The Blade

2008-11-29T19:28:00.003Z

Yes its another visualizer but I think its got real retro power!

I call this one The Blade

Capital Punishment

2008-11-26T10:24:00.002Z

Man, what a bummer.

So we went to London to wow the hordes of prospective students with our Interactive Table. We arrived in the Business and Design Centre in Islington at about 9am to set up armed with our blackout material for the roof of the stand.
Now, let me explain. The GMX in Manchester had a high roof with big red lights. After a couple of hours of confusion wondering why we were having problems with the table, we pointed the IR camera at te roof and realised that the big red lights were in fact beaming a big fat load of Infra Red light straight down - they must be heat lamps or something. So we went out and got some curtain blackout material for the roof of the stand and things were good.
Alas, the Business and Design Centre has a glass roof :(
Despite the fact it had been snowing in London the day before it was of course, a beautiful sunny day. Even with the stand covered the amount of light coming in was too much for our table and we were, as they say, scuppered.
We did get it working for the last half hour of the day when it was starting to get dark, but of course the thousands of students had pretty much all gone.
The free wine at the exhibitors reception was very nice though :)

2008-11-23T11:20:00.003Z

I'm off to London now for another two day exhibition with the Interactive Table. Let's hope it all works ok!

It should be fun - I've arranged to meet up with my friend who works there as a fashion designer.

Cool Visualiser

2008-11-22T11:15:00.005Z

I thought I should share this link to a cool visualiser with you since I've been doing a lot of these kind of things lately (but not in 3D). Its by Grant Skinner who is one of the Daddies when it comes to Flash and Actionscript.

Check it out- its pretty cool, and expect to see something similar here soon!

Which reminds me, I haven't shown you any papervision stuff....

Too much Candy?

2008-11-22T00:35:00.004Z

Well I restarted Firefox and they all work again. I guess it must be a cache thing... too much candy and the fox gets sick!

Anyway here's another visualiser. This one looks like an eye so I've imaginatively called it Eye Candy!

More Candy!

2008-11-21T18:01:00.008Z

I wrote a thousand words of my paper today so I though I'd reward myself by playing with Flash a bit more.
I came up with what I've called Candy Visualiser Its not interactive, you just admire its beauty!
Be warned! It is processor heavy so if you PC is old or slow it may crash! (sorry)

[Edit] I don't know whats going on with these Flash movies, sometimes they work and sometimes they dont....

I know all these generative art things have been done before but they are so much fun to do!

Smoking Wave Eye Candy: Revisited

2008-11-20T15:42:00.008Z

As promised here is the Smoking Eye Candy demo that you can play with. You may need to download the Flash 10 plugin (firefox) or ActiveX (IE) but the page should have a link to make it nice and easy for you :)

I like it so much I used a screenshot for this blog title.

Let me know what you think.

[Update] There still seems to be an issue with Firefox, although it worked when I posted this :s
Safari seems OK though, and JackMedia says it works for him in FF and Safari. I would appreciate it if you could tell me about any issues - browser name/version etc.

London Calling

2008-11-20T14:54:00.003Z

Me and Dave set up the Interactive table today just to make sure everything is working fine. It was of course but its better safe than sorry.
We're taking it to another UCAS fair at the business and design centre in Islington on sunday, monday and tuesday.
More stuff to pad out the prtfolio and CV!

Critical Mass

2008-11-19T11:47:00.002Z

I am starting to write my critical paper today. Its basically a small dissertation, only 4-5000 words, so its not too bad. One thing that does bug me though is the hand in date. Its the day we get back from the christmas break, which means for three weeks our tutors wont be available, which essentially means it needs to be as good as done before Christmas.

So I better get on with it....

Dinner Party

2008-11-19T01:08:00.005Z

Tonight I had my first real dinner party. There were no less than eight of us!
It went pretty well except I had to cook a lot more rice than I had anticipated.
It was time to pay back my good friends Matt and Janire and Chris for all the meals they've cooked me over the last few months. They bought with them armin of seltzdesign and Santi (not sure on the spelling) who has just moved over from spain. My housemates Dan and Jeremy were also indulging.

We had Thai Yellow curry with Monkfish and Jasmine rice. I also made a Thai Red vegetable side curry. Monkfish is very nice indeed which is probably why it costs so much

When word gets around all my friends will be asking when they are to be invited....
I think next time will be lasagne though!

Future Plans

2008-11-17T01:55:00.003Z

I can't say too much but I have been working with some people this weekend on a business idea that I think has some real potential. I am pretty excited about it but I don't want to jinx it..... Watch this space!

Fun atThe Fair

2008-11-14T20:58:00.006Z

We [Reaction Faction] recently took our mkiii interactive table to a UCAS event in Manchester. After some initial set up problems (the exhibition center has huge IR emmiting lights!) it went pretty well. It was nearly as popular as the lollipops!

We met up with my sister H who is in uni up there and we all went out. Dave suffered severely the next day hehe!

Smoking Wave Eye Candy

2008-11-14T19:46:00.007Z

Continuing from my last post "Ultimate Kaoss?" this uses the computeSpectrum method of the SoundMixer class. For some reason it wont work in a browser. When I work out why I'll post a link here so you can have a play.

Ultimate Kaoss?

2008-11-14T16:40:00.000Z

I downloaded the new Adobe Flash (CS4) on wednesday and got stuck in to some of the new features. For the first time its possible to dynamically generate sound from the Flash player, albeit only a simple sine wave. I put together this proof of concept for a Multitouch "Kaoss pad" type application that I hope to use on one of the interactive tables.

To play simply mouse over the rectangle.

I will be posting more about the Interactive Tables soon....

Hello!

2008-11-14T15:30:00.000Z

Hello!

Unbelievably this is my first ever blog! I have been an interactive media student for over two years now and I've been learning some cool stuff and working with some cool people too.

I'll be posting lots of stuff from the last year and new stuff as I go along. Hope you like some of it!