As an interesting exercise teams had to create an interface and then hand it off to be built by another team. Peter Darche and I created the original interface for an airplane simulation using only your body (see below), and the guys took it and turned it up to 11.
In Robbie’s words: Airplane simulation is a webGL game that gives a user the ability to fly an airplane with their body. As a user moves his/her arms and torso around they have full access to roll, pitch, and yaw the plane. The game uses Processing to access Kinect data and then sends it to a node.js server. On the client-side – we’re using chrome to render a webGL canvas using the Three.js library where the movement of the plane is adjusted based on the socket data coming in from the Kinect.
Side note: Pill Popper came out of this same exercise.
I built a CNC’d old-timey looking toolbox a little while back. It’s very straight forward, built from 1/2″ plywood, a 1 1/4″ diameter dowel, and some 1/4″ dowel pegs. It’s stackable so ii works out well if you want to have a couple of these for specific jobs or tasks.
The quality isn’t the best, but here is the first (and only) performance of The Icebox Cometh. I worked with Alex Olivier on the puppet show, she did a fantastic job.
The new packaging design I’ve been working on for Mobile Homes was on display at the ITP Winter Show, for the Printing Code class (taught by the talented Rune Madsen). The goal is to make the packaging something desirable, something you would want to hang on the wall after you open the box.
Each label is unique, the position and shape of the mobile is different for every package.
We showed Bird on a Wire at the ITP Winter Show. This time there was no display window, but there was still a physical space to project it on. We placed the birds on acoustic tiles on a curved wall. I really like how this turned out. Great job Christie, Inessah, and Matt.
The money raised from the enLIGHTen Project bought solar panels for an orphanage in Nepal. Two days ago they turned on the power and now the kids have light. Kind of amazing.
Over the Thanksgiving weekend my dad and I pulled some logs out of a drained lake. No telling if the results will be the same, but I’m hopeful. And if the stinky smell is any indication, they might just turn out to be beautiful.
