I’ve been working on a system that uses microphones to locate where a bullet has hit the wall, so that I can make a digital firing range using lasers and Nerf guns. Since I posted last, I’ve been thinking more about the history of arcades, first with traditional manned side-shows, and then in the 80s […]
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I can’t believe it’s already been two weeks since my first Margate visit and since then there’s been a burst of technical R&D. I’ve decided to recreate the magic of an old fashioned side show, with additional computers and lasers. I was initially inspired by the Das Blinken Blonken project on Instructables. It’s a hand […]
It was my first visit to Margate yesterday since I was a kid. I walked around and got a feel for the town, and was lucky enough to get a tour of the dilapidated theme park, Dreamland. There are creepers and weeds everywhere – a stark reminder that nature takes over astonishingly quickly when left […]
2014 is off to a great start and my first project is an artist’s residency in Margate in the run up to the Geek Festival. I’ll be working on it over the coming weeks and writing up my progress on the Margate Games blog. I was considering reviving the PixelPhones project but now I’m wondering […]
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A swarm of 100 robots for Playable City
I’m so excited to announce that I’ve been shortlisted for the Bristol Playable City award for my Robot Runners project. The award aims to use technology to reconfigure Bristol into a space that encourages play. I’ve long wanted to make a swarm of little robots so this seemed like the perfect opportunity to do it! […]
It’s been a little while since I’ve posted, but I’ve been super busy travelling (I was in Japan last week). Now I’m home in Brighton until September which gives me plenty of time to work full time on the next generation of digital interactive fireworks. The new version will be much more sophisticated – I’m […]
Whew! It’s been a massively intense few weeks getting my PixelPhones project ready in time for my presentation at FOTB. I’ve been coding day and night for months, and I was up until 4am the night before making sure that I’d thought of everything. The worst part was that I had no idea if it […]
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Brighton projections with Processing
Yet another reason you want to live in Brighton 🙂 Every year we have a very special festival the night the clocks go back : White Night. Twinned with Nuite Blanche in Amiens France, events happen all night long: workshops, collaborative art, and performances. This year I was especially lucky to be part of a […]
Today I am launching the most ridiculous site I’ve ever made. www.iwillpayyourparkingticket.com It was inspired by something that happened at this year’s brilliant FlashBelt, where we all decided to get together and pay some poor guy’s parking ticket. [sorry, viddler video no longer available] I don’t know why we did it, but it seemed kinda […]