BeatBearing

DAMPER

AirRecord

SHAKE

PETECUBE

Bliptronic3000

TIDA

HapKit

BeatBearing

The BeatBearing project is a simple Tangible User Interface that uses ball bearings to program a sequencer.

Demo movie: .mov (6Mb) or youtube

Slides from the Enactive'07 talk include the BeatBearing as current work. (pdf or powerpoint .zip)

The BeatBearing has been shown on Engadget, Gizmondo, and Make, along with many other blogs.

UPDATE! - the BeatBearing now has it's own website: www.beatbearing.co.uk
please be patient while new content is being added!

DAMPER

The DAMPER is an interface that has been designed to explore effortful interaction. The DAMPER project was presented at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference (NIME'07). For more information go to the DAMPER project site.

The DAMPER in use.

AirRecord

This project is looking at augmenting a record with a SHAKE device, enabling the user to play a record without the use of a turntable.

The AirRecord prototype

SHAKE

The SHAKE device (Sensing Hardware Accessory for
Kinaesthetic Expression), developed by Stephen Hughes, is a matchbox size sensing unit that contains three-axis accelerometers, gyro's and magnetometers, and uses bluetooth to communicate with the computer. Bonus features are two capacitive sensors, two analog inputs and a three way switch.

The SHAKE in used in the AirRecord project, and methods of integrating it into the DAMPER are being investigated. The SHAKE has been useful in being able to quickly make protoypes to explore new ideas.

The basic setup with the SHAKE is to parse it's serial data in Processing and then stream this via OpenSoundControl to MaxMSP. You can download some sample code here: SHAKE-parser-01.zip

Bliptronic3000

The bliptronic3000 was an installation in the BigBlip'06 digital art show in Brighton. Users could play with a swarm of virtual agents, and create music from the interaction.

Visit http://www.petecube.com/bliptronic3000/ for more information.

Bliptronic3000 showing the blue and red attractors and the green swarm.

Transparency in Digital Art (TIDA)

The TIDA project was created for as the final project for the PGDip in Digital Media Art at the University of Brighton. The aim was to see how transparent a reactive digital art installation could be made, in terms of the user being able to work out the inner workings and abstractions of the system. The result was a large floor grid of pressure sensors controlling a projection.

Visit http://www.petecube.com/tida/ for more information.

TIDA projection