The setup for Rave On Air should have been very smooth today as the RC1 was prepared so all we had to do was boot up a computer, install the plugins and away… right? How wrong that is. After many problems with Macs, PC’s, connectors and lack of microphone input on G4s I finally booted [...]

Needed to do today: Need to ‘bang’ through a single number without it constantly updating. Send messages from Flash to Max. Playback from collisions in Flash. To start with the Beta that had been the focus of our efforts had ‘broken’ as certain tweaking had meant that a few files had been edited for the [...]

I have finally solved the problem of the ‘bang’ going off continuously in the MaxMSP window (and consequentially making everything else after it go off continuously) by asking for help. I posted a question on the Cycling 74 forum in the hope that somebody may have had a similar problem or someone might share their [...]

Flash is finally working with MaxMSP, for all the good it is going to do. The Macs in the interaction lab have yet to have Flash Server installed on them and the demo version of MaxMSP is runs out today on everyones laptops. This means that nobody can come in over the weekend and work, [...]

Progress until today had been slow and painful with few breakthroughs and a loss of direction recently as well as a feeling that contribution to the project had been lacking on my part. That changed when Javascript was abandoned in favour of Flash as Russell knows a lot of Flash. He progressed quickly through the [...]

After some experimentation and direction with regard to the best way to ‘draw’ in Max, the [GL] object library seems to be the way to go. The prototype was forced to refrash and redraw the screen by having a [metro] bang the [clear] element attached to the [lcd]. This meant that the screen flickered as [...]

After learning some cool things with LEDs and Max, Christian sat with each group and went over what he thought were important aspects that needed focus and in which direction to pursue them. This led to the discovery of embedded Java Script files that are executed within the program window of Max and displayed on [...]

Something really impressive that Max can do it tracking, with the right amount of time, effort and the correct use of objects of course. The tracking is a bit… skittish at best but that is probably due to a poorly lit environment for the task and also the fact that a poor quality built in [...]

Today there was a workshop on the Jitter and MasMSP combination allowing viewing of video and changing of colours. Learning more about Max and the fact that it can handle graphics in an external window (which can be placed on an external screen / projector. A comment from Christian had indicated that Processing may be [...]

Today the subdomain http://shoutbox.craigmdennis.com/blog was setup and a fresh install of WordPress was thrown in there. Now each member of the group their own login details and shows as posting separate entries. This is a great way to show some sort of gauge of what people have contributed. This remains a personal blog detailing the [...]

Both of the concepts but forward were selected to be produced but an executive creative decision was taken and the concept being built is ‘shoutbox’. There is a problem with the concepts selected for the fete in that they have all been developed by the ‘regular’ people that attend lectures and seminars. This means that [...]

Here are the slides for the concepts chosen to put forward in tomorrow’s presentation. There are a few videos that can be shown along side these and links can be found at the bottom. Further research links will be added as research is conducted.

The next project has started and it looks to be a very interesting one, with the emphasis on a village fete style environment with many ‘booths’ (or interactive experiences in this case) that will bring the community together to raise money for the proverbial church roof. Currently the mindmapping (formerly brainstorming) is in progress and [...]