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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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Making the OK Go Rube Goldberg Machine
Thursday, March 4th, 2010The 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, 2010I 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, 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 »EL Wire Holiday Tree + LED Dog Collar
Sunday, December 20th, 2009I used 40+ feet of Electroluminescent Wire leftover from halloween to create a glowing tree for some holiday ambience. Since EL Wire does not hold its shape very well I first made a skeleton of two inter-twined coils of multipurpose bendable wire supported by a central trunk. I was then able to attach the EL [...]
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 [...]
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