80/20 and Touchkit
Eric and I put together a frame for the TouchKit FTIR multitouch screen last night. We used 80/20 and a few custom cut angle brackets. The favored vision system for use with it so far has been...
View ArticleLaser Maze
Tyler, Dan, dad and I exhibited our laser maze (for the first time to the public!) last night at the February Mindshare. The object was to traverse the room without breaking any of the beams, ring a...
View ArticleTimeGraff
For the past few months I’ve been taking photos of graffiti in and around Los Angeles. There’s *a ton* of it in this city and a good portion is really excellent art and unique typography. I don’t yet...
View ArticleuWink spins off tech into Tapcode
We recently completed the process of spinning off the uWink technology into its own company named Tapcode. It’s an exciting time as this separation allows us to focus exclusively on the licensing of...
View ArticleArtWalk Fall ’09
Wow! What a weekend. The Virsix showroom was alive and packed during the biannual Brewery ArtWalk. We had five of our games available and people ages 5 to 70 competing away! Players tested their cat...
View ArticleOK Go Rube Goldberg Music Video
The minds (and bodies) of Syyn Labs spent the past three months building a huge, two-story Rube Goldberg machine during which a piano gets dropped and a TV is smashed with a sledge hammer. Why? It’s...
View ArticleThe Biggest Trackball
After unending frustration calibrating an FTIR multitouch device Eric and I decided to take a different tack for a navigation game we were building. We took his giant circus ball and mounted it on...
View ArticleVacationing without your favorite game
A few months ago my good friend Ien Cheng introduced me to the card game Anomia. It quickly rocketed to one of my favorite games and became staple entertainment at our Bushnell family dinners. We...
View ArticleMaking Furniture
This year I wanted to learn how to weld. Just like learning to program, it helps to have a project to focus on so I found some interesting objects at scrap yards and decided to turn them into...
View ArticleSTEAM Carnival
I’m thrilled to report that we’ve launched a high-tech carnival to inspire kids about science, technology, engineering, art, and math! It’s called the STEAM Carnival and we’re launching it using...
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