http://toddvanderlin.com/blog Blog of Great Things Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:51:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My good friend Josh Goldberg organized a great event this weekend. The name of the night was Cognitive Resonance, the venue was Monkey Town in Brooklyn. I performed with Dave Della Costa, he built his sound live using SuperCollider and I built and application coded with openFrameworks. The app load a ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/08/04/cognitive-resonance/ Just got back from any amazing trip. Dani and I traveled to Europe for two weeks stopping in Paris, Belgium, then Amsterdam. Paris was beautiful with all the little parks and places to just sit and relax. We rode bikes to get everywhere and anywhere. Paris has this amazing system ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/08/04/paris-belgium-amsterdam/ Ryan & I went to AVFX to work on some video wall solutions. I have never seen so much equipment in my life. This wall was amazing. The have the whole system is running through Watchout. They way we got our app on there was via a DA. The NEC ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/06/14/video-wall-day/ The Vision Show was in Boston this week. What an interesting conference, most people were there to find the latest in machine vision solutions. We were there to find the best hardware solutions for our tables and pieces, Ohh man we did! People were so helpful to figure out what ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/06/14/the-vision-show/ Just go back from Atlanta doing an installation for the SCMX music festival. The piece was installed under a tent on two HD 52" LCD displays. The image was beautiful 1080p and super bright. As people stand in front of the displays they were able to interactive with drifting bubbles ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/05/23/interactive-mural-atlanta/ Working on a new piece, these are some early renderings. There are two video streams seamed together were particles and motion graphics come alive as you move around. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/05/12/streams/ The lab was just written up in Creativity magazine. Unfortuantly Creativity doesn't let you see their articles after 7 days. They never got the memo that the internet is free. Download a PDF here. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/05/06/rd-lab-in-creativity/ We had some kids come in today, they got to see what we do and try out some of the toys. You can learn a ton watching kids interact with this table. It was amazing watching them learn how to use the table with no explanation. They would teach each ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/04/26/kids-interaction/ MIT Swap Fest last weekend, everythign was so cheap. I spent about $20 bucks and got all of this. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/04/26/mit-swap-fest/ check out the HD ones here & here. online pharmacycialislevitrasomaviagra http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/04/23/some-particle-experiments/ This is where all the magic is made. OF will take over the world. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/04/23/made-with-of/ I hooked up a RFID reader to OpenFrameworks today. It works amazingly, can't wait to get something together. We have some idea! http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/04/14/of-rfid/ Ryan ripped apart some speakers check this video out. When the speakers are just in your hand they make very little sounds. If you touch the speakers to a surface they turn that surface in to a cranking speaker. These things are killer! http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/04/14/crazy-spearkers/ Using cvCanny(...) working on some pixel transformation, the definition of canny is funny. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/04/14/ohh-how-canny/ New Camera it's so tiny so can't wait to try it out. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/04/09/new-camera/ Posted a reel of some current work check it out. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/04/08/reel/ This is a rough example of flocking and obstacle avoidance. The creatures will ovoid the contours of any shape that is on the table. They also follow the rules of flocking separation, alignment, cohesion. Read more about Boids here. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/04/02/flow/ These creatures are attracted to people; they are curious. As you get closer they will jump out and have a taste. This piece is projected over a stairwell 10'x18'. update: Seen on: http://www.vimeo.com/videoart http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/03/29/fungi/ I want to get some feedback on how to do a proper and simple calabration for a multitouch system. I am going to try and walk you through the process and construction of the table. Here is the main setup for the table. For the most part the table is ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/03/19/multitouch-calibration/ This is a project built with Ryan Habbyshaw. The piece allows you to be someone or something else for a moment. As the user walks by the piece finds their face and eyes replacing them with a new image. It is so priceless watching peoples reaction as Yoda shows up ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/03/11/we-make-you-smile/ Here is a new video of the Touch Table. We are working on a classic multi-touch photo appm, there are bugs but we are working them out. We have a set of photos growing here. Thanks to Ryan Habbyshaw and The OF Team. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/03/11/multi-touch-photos/ We got a solid test up and running today. There are defiantly bugs in alignment and calibration but its working. I'm going to get some code up soon for sharing, pumped its working. Check out the video. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/03/03/smart-surface-beta/ We made bubbles with awesome colors. The video is going a bit fast though. ha http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/03/02/bubbles/ This is where I work. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/02/27/the-lab/ Using OpenCV and OpenFrameworks we now have sick eye tracking. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/02/21/sick-eye-tracking/ I want to get this book. "Learn one of the world's most popular functional programming languages, with hundreds of awesome examples covering everything from simple numerical analysis to sophisticated real-time 3D visualisation using OpenGL. " link http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/02/19/ocaml-for-scientists/ Video of the multitouch prototype. You can touch and push particles around. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/02/14/multitouch-2/ Working on a simple multitouch display. This is a small prototype next I want to scale the screen up. I will have more soon. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/02/12/multitouch/ Hillary Obama Table from vanderlin on Vimeo. Made a candidate table for the primaries here in Boston. Watch the heads bobble. This is the ultimate prop for any candidate to win this election. Don't forget to vote. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/02/12/hillary-obama-table/ http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/01/27/generative/ Built a new Drawing Machine at work. This one is long, about 13 feet long. Made some adjustments to the source code. The motors are a some-what smarter. I'm still using brush motors and not stepper motors. If I get some time I'm going to work on portraits. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/01/16/new-drawing-machine/ Working on face detection using openCV. We all want to be Sloth. "Hey you guys". http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/01/16/baby-ruth/ Ryan figuring out the 3rd Dimension http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/01/16/the-3rd-dimension/ beautiful and funky everyday things. So clever, so cool. link http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/01/14/urban-trend/ Here is a prototype that I have been working on. The concept is to create a flexible smart surface that reacts to touch and objects. Way more to come. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2008/01/04/smart-surface/ "The Bubelle Dress is made up of two layers, the inner layer contains biometric sensors that pick up a person's emotions and projects them in colours onto the second layer, the outer textile." (Daily Mail) link http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/12/20/mood-dress/ Love this. link via "The Dragonaut is a student project from the Parsons Making Wireless Toys class, created by Kan Yang Li -- it's a cardboard robot that uses an Arduino kit to give him life: "after you use a key to start him up, his arms raise and lower to ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/12/20/paper-robot/ Amazing LED facade. The Uniqa Tower in Vienna has a LED grid capable of outputting video. link Video http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/12/18/led-facade/ The concept of reading brain waves is not to far away. Using your concentration skills users are able to control object in a game. Check out the video. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/12/18/neurosky/ As seen from space. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/12/17/this-is-big/ The Surface is on tour find out if it is coming near your. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/11/16/surface-at-sheraton/ Beautiful LED installation in Paris. As viewers approach the piece the LED's react to their movements. Take a look at the video. link http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/11/11/triptych/ Alpha bug in processing not sure how to fix it. As the images rotate in 3D space the bounding border is shown. update: Fixed, well turned on depthTesting. This works but you loose track of depths. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/10/26/processing-bug/ Its been awhile and haven't talked much about the lab. I will have more coming soon, I'm still here. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/10/19/building-the-lab/ I want one of these or try to make one. link http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/10/10/hudge-leds/ Rode in my first Critical Mass in Boston. Man is it ever different from NYC. New York's Critical Mass last for about 10 minutes before the cops break it up. We rode all over Boston into Cambridge for about a hour, at one point had a police escort. Funny how ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/09/30/critical-mass-2/ Saw this guy when going for a walk last week. A strange array of actions, like it. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/09/30/sleep-and-music/ A project I'm working on. Here is the first step, the plant life is alive. They follow the the bugs trying their hardest to grab them. Download (mac) the app and try it out. It was built in c++ using openFrameWorks. More to come. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/08/04/growth/ Im back from China and I already miss it, I want to go back. I'm dead tired and out of it, this jet lag is killer. The worst happened, I realized when I got home that my camera was not with me. After a 14 hour flight I guess I ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/07/31/back-from-china/ I'm a bit late of the first post but welcome to China. My first impression was, "wow this place is different". Th flight was long, very long.I fell slept for a long time, woke up and still had 6 hours. This photo is when we were over Antarctica, pretty nuts. ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/07/09/welcome-to-china/ Saw this down in Soho. You plug in your headphones and have a listen. The ad world is finally catching on. Good stuff. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/06/26/listen-to-target/ http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/06/26/junk/ Such a simple I idea with an amazing effect. Attach a light to a swing and create beautiful arcs of light in the night. Check out the work of BCXSY link http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/06/14/light-swing/ Amazing underwater sculpture park created by Jason Taylor. Watch the video it is absolutely beautiful. “The aim of the Sculpture Park is to create a unique space which highlights environmental processes and celebrates local culture. By creating an artificial reef of sculptures which depict Grenadian peoples and their history, the project ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/06/14/underwater-art/ This is a conversation between Ryan and Todd about a nerd battle wound. Ryan throw me that wireless router. (toss) Ouch! ohh man your cut me. Yes the wireless router cut me on the hand. What?! Oh mg god! Ryan look I thing its a sign from the heavens above. As I ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/05/21/nerd-stigmata/ This is the first attempt with my drawing machine. I am happy with the drawings and the functionality. The next step is to work on aesthetic and accuracy. I will have more on this soon. Time Lapse Video http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/05/08/drawing-machine/ This is how to make The Ultimate Throwie Throwie and get out of jail for as cheap as possible. First you will need the following: 1. About 10 -12 LED Throwies 2. A fan - We found one on the street. 3. A power supply outside. 4. A crowded place for people to watch. First ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/05/08/the-ultimate-throwie-throwie/ Join the world wide day in a life with Flickr. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/04/28/24-flickr/ My tilling program made it into the Parsons does the SIMS show. Although it does not have much to do with the game, I made it work. The program grabs the most popular photos of the sims from Flickr and tiles them out. Go check out the show there are ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/04/22/parsons-sims/ So the Apple video went live the other day, for the most part it was ok. Of course Apple some how managed to make me sound like a complete and utter nerd with my amazing comment: "Our homework is awesome!". I may never live that one down, oh well. Any ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/03/23/apple-education-video/ some renderings from the project idea039 (time-lapse art). New features and content. More to come. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/03/22/rgb/ http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-barn/ Went down to Rhode Island to climb at the rock gym. This place was unreal, to top it all off they had a competition going on. There were some of the best climbers in the world there. Good time. All climbing photos http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/03/18/rhode-island-climbing/ The opening for the Open City show was last night, It is running till April 7. This is a display of some of the most amazing tools for public space and art. If you are in the area you must go see this, you will be inspired. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/03/02/open-city/ Well our next task in HomeX was to taxidermy a mouse. This without doubt was the oddest thing I have ever done in school. I added some red LED eyes to make my mouse a little more possessed. Photos Update: The Taxidermy Mouse makes it to Make Blog. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/02/28/taxidermy-mouse/ This is my iPod; I've had it for about three years now. Let's just say that this iPod has taken its share of falls. The other day tops them without a doubt. I'm riding my bike up 6th Ave late for class. I’m in the middle of the road, cause ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/02/27/indestructible-ipod/ http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/02/26/a-motor/ In my HomeX class we built a Arduino board from scratch. I posted step by step photos on how to build your own Arduino. Photos Schematic Board http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/02/21/build-a-arduino/ Well I guess I need to tell the full story since everyone is asking. I was out in South Boston with my friend Ryan. We went to ironically a Graffiti art show that night. After the show we left and were walking around looking for a bar. We walked down ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/02/02/ied-or-a-led/ So today was crazy. The Adult Swim Ads I stole made Boston come to a halt. I spoke to every newspaper and station in Boston. I just want to say that I did not do it. For a good explanation on whats going on check out the boing boing post http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/01/31/i-did-not-do-it/ Kick ass campaign from FCBSA for Lego. Link http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/01/24/periodic-lego/ Love this project from the GRL. "Advertising is the mindless vandalism of the Fortune 500. And despite that, we still don’t like it." Link Video http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/01/24/anti-advertising/ http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/01/20/jeep-waterfalls/ Fun weekend with ryan, went to a Graffiti show in South Boston. It's nice to see Boston is getting an underground art scene. We found an Adult Swim LED Ad up on a bridge. So of course I climb up and grab it. It looks like a take on the ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/01/16/adult-swim-ad/ Apple announces the new iPhone. This piece of technology will set precedence for the future. The mulit-touch interface is outstanding, apple thought of everything. The phone in my mind is so unreal it may not be real; I wonder if it will pass the FCC. "This device has not been authorized ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/01/10/the-future/ City on Fire is a site specific installation created by the Danish artist Thyra Hilden and the Argentinian artist Pio Diaz. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/01/10/city-on-fire/ Love this post, funny as hell. View large. View Project http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/11/12/idea039-post/ http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/11/12/king-of-drool/ Here is a project that I have been working on. The interface is light and water that outputs altered sound. When you break the water streams the sampled sound plays back at different rates. The more you play with one stream the more elaborate the sound becomes. View Project http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/11/02/sound-fountain/ These are little Scribblers that I made. I took a couple of DC motors and attach a piece of lead to the shaft. I controlled them by pulsing them randomly. This is the drawing that they made. More photos video http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/10/30/scribblers/ Just saw the new Bravia commercial. I think this tops the balls, man what a mess. Check out the video. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/10/21/bravia-2/ Trans Light – handheld sun-like light that shines energizing blue light into the face as soon as opened, helping to compensate for the lack of natural light – anytime, anywhere. This can not be healthy for you. Technology is great, awesome, but we still should get outside. Link http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/10/18/trans-light/ Looking at measurements, interesting. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/10/13/measure/ Found this loved the animation. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/10/09/fluid-clay/ So I finally got a bike. Ryan came to visit for the weekend and of-course we had to build something for our bikes. What you see is a LED mounted in the seat post. The circuit is from a dollar toy that we attached an LED to. All the wires ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/10/05/led-seat-post/ Art Directors Club. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/10/03/art-directors-club/ I saw some of the future this weekend. Photos http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/10/03/next-fest/ Lets get green apples. greenmyapple.org http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/10/02/green/ I have to say the new ipod ad looks vaguely familiar to something I have seen before. hmm. apple vs. fi5e http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/09/24/apple-fi5e/ Las Pwnistas are featured in Electronic Gaming Monthly. It is in the september issue go out and take a look. Yea! http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/09/16/we-are-in-egm/ Runtime 3min http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/09/05/mess/ A last day of skim on a rainy summer day. It was a epic summer off to the city. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/09/02/last-day/ It was a beautiful and relaxing time in Maine this year. I got to see friends that I haven't see for so long. Baby O is getting bigger everyday, I can't wait till we can take him boarding. I will miss the cool evenings and peaceful mornings when I'm sweating ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/08/23/198/ Panda's Hideout is one bad ass podcast. Ryan passed this one on to me and I haven't stopped listening. She has some good sounds and strange stories. Take a listen and check out the links. Blog Myspace http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/08/20/pandas-hideout/ This was my first time seeing DMB at Randell Island. What a weekend of nothing but music and good good times. http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/08/20/randell-island/ This was my first time at Siggraph. I saw some of the most amazing new forms of technology. The obvious theme of the event was multi-touch tables, this is really going to be the future. Its exciting to see what new interfaces will be built with multiple inputs in consideration. Jeff ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/08/04/siggraph-2006/ What a time in Nantucket with the Landons. It was so beautiful and we had perfect weather. Relaxing on the beach on a island is really what summer is all about. I hope to get back there soon. Watch skim video. The swells were unreal, eight feet some days. Skim and ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/07/31/ack/ A great show in Hartford this weekend. The crowd was crazy and the rain just cooled us off. I was pumped to hear Big Eyed Fish. What a great start to a second session next stop Randall's. Flickr Set http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/07/30/dmb-hartford/ http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/07/20/bridge-jump/ An unbelievable weekend at Fenway, Dave played two amazing nights. The Quad came together and showed the man some support. Night one was unreal Last Stop blew me away. Night two Steve said it best "This is where we are supposed to sit". I was mesmerized by Boyd's performance during ... http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/07/10/a-dmb-fenway-weekend/