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Merry Xmas

elmer — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:36:20 +0000

Frontiers of Interaction IV

elmer — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:56:15 +0000

Just thought I’d briefly mention this Italian interaction design/theory event. With Adam Greenfield, Bruce Sterling, Nicolas Nova and Ashley Benigno - who I’m proudly working with at HWL - amongst others.

Via Experientia: Putting people first.

Away3D Texture Mapping

elmer — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:53:56 +0000

I haven’t really sat down just fiddling with flash in a while. I’ve played with some AS3 stuff, like Glue, TUIObject simply trying to make stuff work.. But (Papervision3D or Away3D I haven’t had a play with yet, so I thought I’d have a stab at it, while I’m sitting here at home in Holland.

Behold, a little box with some easy texture mapping (will come in handy I’m sure ;)), after experimenting with some matrix bitmapdata rotation, phongbitmap materials (and others), directional lights, mirrors, etc..
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Multitouch Flash

elmer — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0000

This evening I’ve combined my movable window demo with the multitouch experiment from the other day and this resulted in my first attempt at creating a multitouch application which will allow you to drag around multiple boxes at the same time. I’ve also replaced my logitech webcam with the Philips SPC900 and the performance has increased dramatically.
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Experimenting with Multitouch

elmer — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:39:14 +0000

I’ve been looking at multi-touch solutions for what seems like ages now. But it’s not until now, since I’ve met and seen multitouch-barcelona that I’ve gotten round to build something that works without costing a fortune. Using MTMini’s guide to building a multitouch surface, I’m now happily experimenting with multitouch input and flash apps.
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Arduino and Flash, using SerProxy and AS3Glue

elmer — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:38:11 +0000

I just thought I’d post my serproxy config file here, with some additional comments for those struggling to get started. As you may have read I’ve been playing around with it a little and found serproxy + as3glue is a seriously good, quick and easy way to get started. After uploading the correct firmata.pde file, the rest is easy to get anyone started setting and controlling the in- and outputs of the Arduino board. To save you the troubleshooting, I thought I’d share my current working set up.
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Playing with Flash and Arduino

elmer — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:44:15 +0000

After last months LFPUG with presentations by Matt Biddulph and Alias Cummins I decided to have a play with Arduino and Flash. My Arduino starterkit, I ordered the Arduino Diecimilla USB from tinker.it, arrived only a few days after I had placed the order, so I could get started pretty shortly after. First off, since it’s been a while since I looked at any electronics, the challenge was to decipher what had been sent to me.. resistors, pushbuttons, potentiometer, tilt sensors etc.
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Generation Random

elmer — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:03:41 +0000

I was just browsing through For Inspiration Only’s collection of videos, and came across this piece of work, called “Generation Random“. The video shows the single touch user interface allowing for rich user interaction, please read on to see the video.
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Merry Christmas!

elmer — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:17:04 +0000

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Collaboration in Education at LFPUG

elmer — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:51:03 +0000

For those who attended November’s LFPUG, I thought I’d say a big thanks for attending, and giving me so much feedback on the issues of ownership, identity, privacy, and the presentation itself. To let you know that, even though Tink observed I wasn’t taking notes on paper, I definitely haven’t forgotten about your suggestions to identify a user. For those who weren’t there, the most intriguing part of the conversation following the presentation was: How to distinguish one user’s touch from someone else’s on a multi-touch, and multi-user screen?
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