Distorting Time with a Mask

I saw a great example of slitscan videos recently and it reminded me of an experimental time masking video filter that I did way back when.

Object tracking with OpenCv’s TemplateMatching

I have recently been playing with around tracking objects using my computers webcam. In this article I am going to talk about how to track object in video streams using OpenCv and cvMatchTemplate.

How to create a new openFrameworks Project with Visual Studio 2010

OpenFrameworks is a cool toolkit for creative coding in c++. Some really cool stuff has been made in it. Getting started with it is pretty easy, but there a couple little things that if missed can make working with it a real head ache. Since I had some hangups with getting it working when I first started, I thought I would share a step by step guide on how I start new openFrameworks projects for use with Visual Studio 2010.

The new and improved bubble display

I redesigned the bubble display to address some of the issues I was having with the previous version. Hit the jump to see what I changed to make it work.

Bubble display proof of concept

A while back I saw the cool water display that Jeep has been showing off at conventions, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2LUz2WVcek It looked simple enough so I decided to build something similar. Instead of using falling water I decided to use air bubbles rising in water. I thought it would be simpler (though, I now I have my doubts). In this post I will share how the effort is going.

Android and Arduino Bluetooth communication

In this post I will be talking about how to get an Arduino and an Android tablet talking to each other using Bluetooth

We will be using an Arduino Uno ($29.95) with a Silver Bluetooth Mate ($40.95) from SparkFun.com, and my Samsung Galaxy 7.0 running Android 2.3.4.

Gyro sensor as a rotation sensor

I have some augmented reality game ideas and one of them requires that I have the ability to track the rotation of a cannon (you know a cannon ) I thought that a triple axis gyro sensor might do the trick so I setup a little experiment: