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MAT Projects
Laser Contours at TEDxUSC
Thursday, April 15th, 2010The laser obelisk made an appearance TEDxUSC 2010 for the reception in the Town & Gown Ballroom. After a day of insightful talks and moving performances the TEDx attendees were treated to food, drink and interactive exhibits. Other exhibits included Cloud Mirror, Stardust and Sonic Stalagmites from Syynlabs as well as the Microsoft Surface, the [...]
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Open Sound Control on mbed microcontroller
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010I have been playing with the mbed microcontroller, a new platform for rapid prototyping from NXP. I like the mbed because it has a lot of power (32-bit ARM chip at 100Mhz), a lot of I/O (serial, SPI, CAN, I2C, USB, Ethernet, analog and digital…) and is easy to program. The code is C/C++ and [...]
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Safecracker at Mindshare LA December09
Sunday, December 20th, 2009My safecracking game ‘Scrooge’ from LACMA Halloween made an appearance at the December 2009 Mindshare event. It was installed on the rooftop of the Downtown Independent theater in Los Angeles with a great view of the skyline. Since LACMA I re-engineered the door-release mechanism to be more powerful and reliable and it has worked like [...]
Keep Reading »Laser at CDM Lounge, King King
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009I brought the laser project to King King in Hollywood for the Create Digital Music Lounge celebrating the 5th birthday of the blog. The event was a sort of after party for a two-day Ableton Live workshop sponsored by Dubspot out of NYC. The event also featured a few performances by live-looping-beat-boxer Kid Beyond, including [...]
Keep Reading »LACMA Halloween Costume Ball
Sunday, November 1st, 2009I was invited to show some projects at the LA County Museum of Art for their Muse Costume Ball, in conjunction with Mindshare Labs. We had an entire gallery in the Arts of America Building for the night and showed upwards of 15 interactive explorations. I brought the Contours Laser Obelisk but also debuted a [...]
Keep Reading »Mindshare LA September 2009
Sunday, September 20th, 2009I once again showed the interactive laser project at Mindshare LA at Lot613 in Downtown Los Angeles. This time it was contained inside the 6 foot tall Obelisk I constructed for DANCEiSM, with a new twist. I added LED’s in the tip of the metal pyramid that houses the laser so that the obelisk is [...]
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