Radio New Zealand recently did a broadcast focusing on the robotics work of our adviser, and good friend, Dr. Ajay Kapur. We were lucky enough to have them ask us a few questions about our work with the multi-touch table, and what we are up to here in New Zealand. You can find the whole [...]
As we started the AhText Project, we began to run into our first difficulties with processing. It turns out that although Processing 0136+ supports Java 1.5, it does not support any of the new Java syntax. Things like generics, and enhanced “for” loops are not understood by the preprocessor and compiler used in Processing. See [...]
We have been asked to create a new multi-touch application for the Opera Ah!, created by composer-performer David Rosenboom and poet-writer Martine Bellen, and which will be performed at RedCat September 15-17th. The Opera will also be featuring the work of our friends Meason Wiley, Jim Murphy, Dimitri Diakopoulos, and Dr. Ajay Kapur from CalArt’s [...]
This past June, Owen and I prepared our bodies for our upcoming travel to New Zealand by first flying to Europe. There were three destinations, Berlin, Paris and the Netherlands. While the latter two were more in the vain of seeing old friends and catching up over a couple beers, Berlin (though there was time [...]
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Google I/O 2009 After Hours party! We had a wonderful time meeting and talking to you, and hope you enjoyed interacting with Bricktable. Big thanks to Google for putting so many great people and exciting projects in one room. Also, the food was great If you have [...]
Spaces Multi-Touch Music Environment from BricK Table on Vimeo. Firstly, I would like to give a big thanks to everyone who came out to the RedCat lounge for an evening of some of the finest electronic music happening right now. It was great to meet a lot of new faces, and I had a really [...]
Roots Multi Touch Tangible Installation Teaser from BricK Table on Vimeo. For those of you who have browsed our vimeo group, you might have noticed the teaser video of Roots above. We apologize for not making a formal announcement sooner, as the video has been up for a while, but without further delay, if you [...]
Many of you might be wondering… why haven’t we posted in a little while? Perhaps no excuse is good enough, but we DO have lots of exciting news for you. Yes, we know, we’ve been holding off for too long, but we hope you will forgive us because there are lots of exciting things going [...]
Brick Table + MahaDeviBot + ESitar from BricK Table on Vimeo. We just got back from Stanford and man was it a great time! Everyone was extremely nice and very inspiring. It was also great because we had a lot of time to demonstrate how we are interfacing the BricKTable with the MahaDeviBot– Dr. Ajay [...]
While browsing through flickr photos of Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2008, I came upon a few photos of some of the cutest kids in the world playing with Brick. Not only could I not stop smiling, but I started thinking about what I saw when kids played with the table and made music. While with [...]
