Open Jam is an open-source themed game jam run by Jared and myself, with a lot of help from opensource.com. Check it out at openjam.io.
Open Jam 2018
Open Jam 2017
geekSPARK is a showcase of creative use of technology, taking place each year during the SPARKcon art festival. What lies below is a summary of the festivities at geekSPARK 2017.
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RC Speedway
The RC Speedway was an incredibly fun creation by maker extraordinaire Bill Culver…
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Three years ago, surrounded by monitors in a dark, blue-hued room, a particular screen caught my eye. My girlfriend’s (now wife’s) eye was caught by the same screen, and we crossed the room to investigate.
We were visiting the Indie Game Revolution exhibit at EMP i…
I have someone I’d like you to meet. SimPixel, meet everyone. Everyone,
SimPixel.
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SimPixel, introduce yourself
SimPixel is a WebGL visualizer for LED displays, very much like the ones Adam
and Dan build over at Maniacal Labs.
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height: 50vh !important;
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@media sc…
Just a few short days months ago, Kimotion was on
display at SPARKcon. SPARKcon is a large art festival in Raleigh, and we
occupy a small slice of it called geekSPARK.
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Kimotion Levels Up
Last year’s tech had a rudimentary and finicky hand tracking system. It
was workable, but …
They say good developers are lazy. A tedious process is no match for a
lazy developer. Below is an experiment in laziness. It’s a proof of concept
for using Web Components without having to manually import each one.
I’m not sure exactly what to call it. It grazes the definitions …
Kimotion is a simple framework for creating interactive art exhibits in 2D or
3D and supports both Kinect and Leap Motion for viewer input.
This tutorial will focus on the Leap, so to proceed with the tutorial you’ll
need to set up your Leap.
Once the leap service is running, you…
“Finally,” I thought, “an excuse to play with WebGL at work!”
This year, I had the good fortune of contributing to a keynote presentation at
Red Hat Summit. During the keynote, an audience of 5,000 played a
mobile web game created by our team. The game was backed by several
micro…
