I give in.
I'm going to learn Flash.

My first day of Flash CS3 programming: got a hold of Box2DFlashAS3 and one of Jenski's ladies.

Not exactly finished but a good start, as well as a good ending considering TV on the Radio just ended, and it's 4am, people!

I've been working on some software and electronics for Robin Mandel in order to realize his Storm. First I made a Arduino-MIDI-output-translator application that converted MIDI out of GarangeBand to on and offs on the Arduino's Digital Outputs. Then I integrated the MIDI playback into the translator application.

An arrangement for Arduino + MaxMSP + circuit so that blocking the light will turn on the storm. With the new MaxMSP patch, a photosensitive resistor is used to start/stop playback of a MIDI file that is a composition for Robin's electro-mechanical storm machine.

I have been invited by Steve Dietz, Director of the festival, to take the Minneapolis Art on Wheels posse to the 2008 ZERO1 Festival. The 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge will take place in San Jose, Cali, between June 4 and June 8.

Peter, TJ, Tyler and myself will trek west in a big truck and be there for the festivities. Along the way, we'll make 10 or so stops in natural, rustic, sub-urban and urban settings to make some projections.

So i'm teaching this class where we built a bunch of fancy mobile projection unites.

Check us out at our first official outing during the 2008 Spark Festival .

ArduinoBt, talking to Max/MSP, using SimpleMessageingSystem.

Had many many troubles with this "programmer not responding" bull shit, but got it going eventually... still doesn't exactly stay up for hours.

Video documentaiton of a panel discussion on Feb. 13, 2:30-4:30pm, in Regis Art Center's In-flux space.

The participants were the following:
-Mary Altman, Minneapolis Art Commission Public Arts Coordinator (confirmed)
-Mike Hoyt, Director of Kulture Klub (confirmed)
-Nora Paul, Director of the Institute for New Media Studiesat the U of M (confirmed)
-Jim Nystrom, UMN Police officer responsible for West Bank and Athletic Facilities (confirmed)
-Tracy Smith, UMN General Council Attorney in charge of student activities (confirmed)
-Steve Johnson, UMPD Deputy Chief

I was invited to give a lecture on my work as a part of the UMN Electrical and Computer Engineering Department's colloquia series.

Below, a video recording of the lecture....

Just another night at the South Shores (UMN South Stores), recorded in one (random) take, my new best friend Jenny Schmid rockin the electric base, and I myself on the Lemur.

This track is a good representation of how we roll here at the south shores, people.

8:29 minutes (8 MB)

Demonstration of a little stand alone application for translating MIDI to an Arduino's digital outputs.

The editable MaxMSP patch (and many more things) are a part of aLib. You will find the patch in the "for controllers" folder, within the "Arduino" section.

This application uses
-SimpleMessageSystem library for the Arduino platform.