Portfolio

Lightischord: Participants wave hands over a Leap Motion controller to trigger harp glissando sounds and DMX flood lights. Community Award at Oakland Autumn Lights Festival 2022. JACK Audio Connection Kit, Open Lighting Architecture, LeapMotion SDK.

i2i: Browser-based video chat with real-time background removal, placing participants behind a virtual table. Real-time networked physics simulation with drag-and-drop support for most 3D model file formats. BodyPix TensorFlow segmentation, Seriously.js stream processing, Agora.io video chat, Cannon physics engine, Three.js 3D rendering.

FlowState: A real-time collaborative art experience great for social distancing. Everyone draws on a shared fluid canvas. Output to LED wall. Try it here.

Clockwork Eye: Five laser-cut gears rotating out of sync create moiré patterns and a rainbow of colors.

Low-Poly Skunk: 172 laser-cut triangles in birch and walnut woods. Each piece is beveled to exact angles to ensure proper fit and glued by hand. Tail rotates into a “spraying” position.

Jigsaw Stained Glass: Laser-cut transparent acrylic. Interlocking shapes hold without glue or fasteners.

Scared Little Boy: Interactive laser-cut interlocking acrylic LED sculpture. 1024 LEDs, custom controller and software, 68″ / 172cm.

Brickolage: 400 LEDs controlled by a browser-based multi-touch application. Works with any tablet over wifi. FadeCandy driver. Appears monthly at Loves Company in San Francisco, fourth Fridays at Underground SFGitHubTry it here!

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ETIPADO: Extremely Tall Image Processing And Display Object. A 25-foot saccadic persistence-of-vision LED display with real-time camera input. Learn more.

Equanemone: Touch-responsive walk-through volumetric display. Solar powered. Appeared at Burning Man 2015 in an 8×8=64-tentacle configuration, 3200 LEDs total. Version 2.0 was installed at Sierra MeadowsGitHub!

Neurotiq: Hardware and software integrating an Emotiv Epoc EEG headset, RFduino wireless microcontroller, and RGB LEDs in a 3D-printed headpiece. Brain states are visualized in the LEDs.

Photouch: Intuitive iPad app to control professional entertainment lighting wirelessly. Simplifies complex DMX control for the casual user to walk up and start playing.

iPad => Bonjour over Wifi => QLC+ => USB => DMX. GitHub!

Blume: Bluetooth-controlled LED bulbs to repurpose salvaged LED strips from an old art project. GitHub. Project Vision.

BlinkyBra: Fully custom wearable with 32 RGB LEDs, Arduino, sound sensitivity including 6-channel spectrum meter, controller, rechargeable battery. GitHub!

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MindOMeter: iOS app to display brainwave data from consumer EEG headset via Bluetooth. Learned iOS development in the process. Now on GitHub.   http://mindometer.com

DJ Spacecat – 2008 to present

See our GitHub page for more project source code.