Tinker it now!

++ OpenSoundControl hack by Matti Niinmaki using the Arduino and Pure Data with Animata a nice open source animation package.

++ Speaking of tangible music, Psychosynth is a nice project, composing music by moving physical objects on a table. Check out the 3D music interface virtual version.

++ Graffiti project is a Gesture Recognition Management Framework for Interactive Tabletop Interfaces, by Alessandro De Nardi from NUI Groups showing you seamless natural interaction between the TUI and GUI with source.

++ Whether Keytar, a keyboard/guitar controlled by Arduino, is the world’s sexist instrument or not, it’s certainly worth checking out…

++ Have any ideas to create a more environmentally friendly vehicle? The Toyota Technology Challenge 2008-09 invites UK school student teams to attend the Design & Build an Environmentally Friendly Model Vehicle competition. A wonderful chance to mess around with a free* kit supplied by Rapid, containing all the components necessary to build a vehicle, and possibly win up to £1,000 for your school as well!

++ Manchester’s yearly Futuresonic conference is offering a 6 month internship for anyone interested in digital art, live music, and events logistics.

++ Is Augmented Reality this year’s hot trend? Suddenly it’s everywhere. Mikkoh’s lovely tutorial shows you how to get started with FlarToolKit playing with Augmented Reality in Flash. Another free library, yay!

++ Speaking of which, check out VixML platform for iPhone development. The approval system is a bit of a pain, but it makes dev work much more accessible.

Hi! I’m John Nussey and I’m interning with Tinker it for a few weeks.

I’ll be looking at a few of the coolest projects I can find and opening them up for you.

You will have seen all the projects on youtube, filmed with a camera phone and made in people’s bedrooms, with no clue about how to make them for yourself,… well I’m going to be building them, breaking them and showing you how to, hopefully, get them working.

I’ll put a few more posts to show how they’re progressing and in a couple of weeks there should be (the beginnings of) an index of projects.

Watch this space!

Tinker is looking for an interaction / exhibition designer to work on a project based in Tucson Arizona. You have to have had practical experience with Arduino, be comfortable with Flash and know a little bit about either MaxMSP, Processing or VVVV etc… I think if you read this blog, you probably already do :)

See detailshere.

Get in touch if you’re interested!

(Warning, you HAVE to be based in the US for this and willing to relocate to Tucson Arizona… we think it’s a pretty nice gig that’ll be worth it :) )