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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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