I have been building a multi-touch display for the Digital Design department where I teach. We are approaching the end of the build phase after getting the last vital part. You can follow the progress over at the Digital Design blog.

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 [...]

Arduino is a great electronics prototyping platform I am currently working with. I have never really talked about it here but I have been teaching another prototyping platform at Digital Design called Teleo. Unfortunately, Teleo is no longer being developed and has transformed into the make controller. I say unfortunately because Teleo was amazingly simple [...]