Posts Tagged ‘interactive’
LCRC LED Foldie and Pac-Man Tag Game Workshops
April 28, 2011
Amid screams and shouts the stamping feet of 25 kids jumping from line to line to avoid the ghosts chasing them, their hands cupped tightly around tiny cubes of light illuminated by LEDs, echos up to the rafters in the darkened gym. Gosh those kids were loud. This game was the culmination of a two [...]
2011 | Artengine | Tags: after school workshops, arcade games in real life, artengine, interactive, interactive art, large scale human video games, lcrc, LED foldies, LED-lit cubes, LEDs, ottawa, Pac-Man, pac-man tag game, paper circuitry, papercraftComments (0)
DINO Game Jam
February 22, 2010
This weekend DINO Interactive Studios hosted a game jam and interactive project creation session at the Sprout space in Somerville that spanned both Saturday and Sunday. Our jam lasted 27 hours total and had 12 participants and teams either creating new games from scratch or reworking current games and adding new features. We had a [...]
2010 | Art, DINO, Projects | Tags: Art, collaborative, DINO, dino jam, game, game jam, interactive, ProjectsComments (0)
Giant Snail Take Over
February 21, 2010
This weekend DINO hosted a game jam and interactive project creation session that spanned both Saturday and Sunday. Typically the purpose of a game jam is for teams or lone creators to make a working project in either 24 or 48 hours. Sometimes there is a theme or things that you must incorporate into the [...]
2010 | Art, Projects | Tags: Art, giant snails, interactive, paper game, papercraft, ProjectsComments (0)
Smile or Else…
February 5, 2010
Lauren McCarthy, winner of the Awesome Foundation- Boston grant for December wants to teach you some manners. Specifically, how to improve your social interactions for the betterment of all. Through three different handmade devices she proposes that the wearer will be happier, more focused and more personable in conversation. The Happiness Hat works by jamming [...]
2010 | Awesome Foundation | Tags: Awesome Foundation, interactive, lauren mccarthy, lilypad arduino, soft circuits, wearable technologyComments (2)
Interactive Paper Art
December 8, 2009
It’s been a while since I’ve worked on this but here are two examples of a simple way to integrate LED lights into a piece of art to change the story and engage the viewer with the 2-dimensional surface of the drawing. In Robodino Bond, pressing the dinosaur’s heart causes the robot’s electronic heart to [...]
2009 | Art, Projects | Tags: Art, interactive, LED art, papercraft, papertronics, ProjectsComments (0)
A First on Google Wave
November 19, 2009
My friend kittenthebad did a rally call to her friends the other day to join an Intro to Java class she was teaching on Google Wave. She had set up instructions ahead of time for people to download Eclipse and when the time came we proceeded through her slides and demos while she held an [...]
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: collaborative, google, google wave, interactive, Other, webComments (1)
Levels of ‘stashe
November 18, 2009
This was a fun project- the mustache man below is the main character in a game created in Processing by my friends and I over this past weekend. The basic premise to the game is that you play the role of a newspaper editor trying to maintain a balanced coverage of news stories coming through [...]
2009 | Art, DINO, Projects | Tags: Art, DINO, game art, interactive, processing, Projects, spriteComments (0)
I like giant helpful tables
July 22, 2009
Within the MIT media lab, through four doors and up three flights of stairs stands a great table. Roughly 6×10 feet of mesmerizing tactile phantasmagoric construction, the MemTable by creator Seth Hunter is indeed real and highly prone to the continuous company of men peering into it’s depths. I got to take part in a user study [...]
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: collaborative, geek, interactive, OtherComments (1)
What is the smallest unit of funk?
June 24, 2009
Tonight I went to an event put on by my friend Josh Rosenstock at MassArt called the Shrine to the Funky Drummer: an experimental documentary/video mixtape/mashup he had been working on as artist in research at the Berkwick. It was a great piece and it got me thinking to create an interactive James Brown polyester [...]
2009 | Projects | Tags: ideas, interactive, Projects, wearable technologyComments (2)
Playing With A Creepy Cave Crab
May 23, 2009
CCC Play Video A while ago I was the self-appointed minion to Jimmie Rodgers’ creepy cave crab project for Willoughby & Baltic’s Halloween show at the Charles River Museum of Industry. as you can see from this movie the crabs are indeed creepy and crabby and liked the dark. [A single hex schmitt trigger [...]
