Inspired by Jonny Lee’s head tracking video, I decided to see what it would take to get it working in flash. 4 hours later I got a dirty implementation working with Wiiflash. I haven’t tested this for accuracy but it works well enough to mess about with. Tyler Egeto, one of my students in Digital [...]

Here is a quick time-lapse video showing a large DI multi-touch window test. This screen is about 1m square. Drafting mylar is being used for the projection surface. DI Multi-touch Window Test from Brett Forsyth on Vimeo.

It’s official, I will be presenting at FITC ’08. This will be a great opportunity to show off the work we have been doing at VFS with multi-touch interfaces (Being in April we will even have some stuff to show). I have been silent about the multi-touch lately, not because it isn’t progressing, but I [...]

I have been working with Arduino lately. I must say it has made me really excited about technology again. There is something about creating physical devices that is more rewarding then always working on virtual projects. Having said that, ever since I started working with Arduino I have wanted to make interfaces for it with [...]

ActionScript 3 is a lovely step up from AS2 but relearning all your favorite techniques is a bit of a pain. Take for example swapDepths(). What a great little method. Sure it was working the crappy depth system of Flash 8 but it was easy. Let do this in AS3 then. Well for starts its [...]