Deleted Tweets: taking back what was said

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

For my master’s project I am looking at deleted Tweets. More specifically, I am catching tweets that have been marked deleted by their sender and visualizing how they connect to the user themselves. To make this all possible I had to make some software that gathers and stores a high volume of tweet data for [...]

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Laser Contours at TEDxUSC

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

The 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, 2010

I 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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Making the OK Go Rube Goldberg Machine

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

The OK Go ‘This Too Shall Pass‘ Rube Goldberg video is already at 3 million views after three days and looks like it will continue being the most talked about video on the web. It is already the #1 top rated music video on Youtube of All Time! I got involved with the OK Go [...]

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Rube Goldberg Machine for OK Go

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

I had the unique experience of being part of the Syynlabs team for the second “This Too Shall Pass” music video for OK Go. They hired us to design and build a massive Rube Goldberg-style machine that would play along with their music in one unbroken sequence from start to finish. We took over a [...]

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Safecracker at Mindshare LA December09

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

My 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 [...]

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