These started back in 2015 when Van Neistat was a digital ghost. I was about three years late and frustrated by how difficult it was to find his work. I wanted to leave a few breadcrumbs behind so the next person wondering, ‘Where on Earth is Van Neistat?’ had an easier time finding him. Since then, I’ve started preserving the work of an online community of artists and making difficult-to-find media about the American sculptor Tom Sachs more discoverable.

Over the first half of 2021, an online group participated in Tom Sachs' Nikecraft Wear Tester program. A series of challenges acted as prompts that these people used to develop a collection of art. The finale for the Wear Tester program was an art show in New York City. Published on the occasion of: Endurance June 25th, 2021 - July 25th, 2021 1250 6th Ave, Rockefeller Center, New York City,

A JavaScript algorithm grows seven panels from either the top or bottom of an image.     Output from this algorithm can be purchased on OpenSea.

A JavaScript algorithm uses a three segment line to partition space by approximately 1/3.     Output from this algorithm can be purchased on OpenSea.

A JavaScript algorithm randomly partitions space with perpendicular lines.     Output from this algorithm can be purchased on OpenSea.

A JavaScript algorithm randomly partitions space and fills the upper left corner with a staggered gradient that transitions from dark to light.     Output from this algorithm is available as high quality prints and as NFTs on OpenSea.

A JavaScript algorithm randomly creates five pentagons inspired by the shells of an Armadillo.     Output from this algorithm is available as high quality prints and as NFTs on OpenSea.

A JavaScript algorithm randomly places six sets of concentric circles. The rings in each set are randomly placed.     This algorithm was born out of Tom Sachs’ NikeCraft Weartester program. Output from this algorithm was minted as a physical ‘Not a Fucking Token’ and displayed at Endurance. RockeFeller Center, New York(US). Available as high quality prints and as NFTs on OpenSea.

A JavaScript algorithm randomly partitions two bottom corners and climbs to the top of the image.     Output from this algorithm is available as high quality prints and as NFTs on OpenSea.

Not Fucking Tokens (NFTs) are the hot new thing in art. Collectors from around the world are adding these new commodities to their investment portfolio. Below is the first NFT drop from experimental artist, Clinton Freeman.   How do I buy one? Like other NFTs, you must start with regulated fiat currency first. Visa, Mastercard and American Express are all accepted. Send an email to my-first-name@reprage.com, you’ll want to replace my-first-name with my actual first name (clinton).

  Cartoon heroes caught in a series of precarious circumstances are projected in front of an audience of innocent bystanders. As the clock ticks down, our heroes face certain danger. But tragedy can be avoided! With a simple text message, you can be part of the solution. But it will take a few of you. If witnesses can rally enough people to participate in time, the hero can be saved.

Red Light was programmed as part of the socially distanced 2020 Brisbane Festival, billed as bedtime stories for adults, I developed virtual theatre software to deliver the performance as a phone call. With capacity for 170 patrons, switchboard software dials the audience into a radio play style performance. The dialling algorithm is able to deal with common situations such as missed calls and voice mail, retrying a few times to ensure a patron doesn’t miss the performance.

  A 3/8ths 3V geodesic dome constructed for the Tom Sachs workshop at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This workshop was an In-Situ Resource Utilization (i.s.r.u.) exercise, the brief was to use materials found in our location. Our dome was constructed from sticks and cable ties. Dimensions: 3000mm diameter (9ft 10in)

The American sculptor, Tom Sachs runs his studio just like a space program. He’s conducted his own exploration missions of the Moon, Mars and Europa. Built a full-size Luna Exploration Module out of plywood and a 3-metre-tall space shuttle from foamcore. Tom doesn’t see his practice as NASA stagecraft, but rather an extension of NASA itself. He uses a NASA letterhead emblazed with ‘Sachs Research Laboratory’ and issues each staff member with NASA identification.

I got my old filing cabinet from this awesome office seconds place in Brisbane, it only cost $15 or something like that. However, the more we moved house, the more I loathed the bloody thing. The drawer slides had started to stick and squeal, plus it was big and bulky. Building this replacement ended up being the perfect lockdown project. I had been looking for an excuse to experiment with rabbet joinery and it looked like I already had all the supplies I needed in the workshop: Caster wheels, plywood, paint, even the drawer slides (well almost, I had to order one extra set online – but that was the only thing, all the other materials I could scrounge at home).

When I was a kid, my primary school had a single Apple IIe computer. It lived on a cart so that it could travel from class to class. It would spend a couple of weeks in our classroom before moving onto the next. Sheesh. That sounds a bit like one of those “back in my day” stories; the ones where our parents would trudge fifty miles in the snow to get to school.

  Current events have left many of us with our legs dangling over the existential abyss. Issue Two of Analogues Anonymous offers relief for this uncomfortable predicament with a certificate that validates the recipient’s existence as 100% authentic. Locked away in a secure, and appropriately distanced ‘Antisocial Network’, is the catalogue of 100% sentient compatible beings. A support hotline offers certificate holders the opportunity to have their existence fully verified against the Antisocial Network.

Recently, the American sculptor Tom Sachs has been hosting office hours on Instagram. My standout favourite so far has been a talk he gave about Sol LeWitt on the 23rd of April 2020. In particular, this monologue describing wall drawings was brilliant: You can see these variations… [what is] cool about the wall drawings is that you have these… strict lines, but there is all this art and expression of the individual.

About a decade ago my friend Vanessels gave me a table. It had been made by her Grandfather as a kitchen table for his family. It had been passed down in the family and had been gathering dust underneath someone’s house by the time it came into my possession. The poor table was in dire need of restoration, it needed the right amount of love and geometry to preserve its heirloom status.

  Large inflatable spheres were suspended above a pathway along Lake Placid as of a 2019 Cairns Festival ‘Suburban Satellite’. Set in front of a red illuminated rock wall, these disembodied orbs of light faded in and out of the silhouetted foliage. Each orb was stuffed with a custom-built lighting controller and powered by a single 18650 battery. Season: 2019/08/28, Cairns Festival, Lake Placid (AU) Duration: 4 hours

Developed in conjunction with Flipside Circus and the transmedia collective ‘Counterpilot’, I created theatrical heart rate monitors and pedometers. My custom-built hardware was incorporated into a series of techno-circus experiments. Statum explored the interplay between human bodies and technology – audiences are invited to inhabit performer’s bodies, analyse their heart rate, and explore the interplay between acrobats. Season: 2019/10/17 - 2019/10/27, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane (AU) Duration: 60 minutes.

  I developed a fully functional polygraph machine as part of my work within the transmedia collective ‘Counterpilot’. Custom software inferred a lie likelihood from biometric stress markers obtained from three different sensors. My custom built hardware broadcasted OSC messages that were used to dynamically alter the audio and visual environment of the performance. Truth Machine explored truth in a world of fake news and alternative facts.

This is SpaceX’s autonomous spaceport drone ship in LEGO and is a companion model to the Falcon 9 first stage rocket. This model features: Stylized SpaceX ‘X’ to mark the center of the landing pad. Approx 1:124 scale (~65cm long). 4 Azimuth thrusters Blast shields Onboard generator units American and SpaceX flags Construction: Quantity Color Description Bricklink LEGO Element ID* 26 Black Plate 6x16 3027 n/a 82 Black Slide Shoe Round 2x2 2654 4278359 2 Black Plate 4x10 3030 303026 17 Black Plate 1x6 3666 366626 2 Black Plate 4x6 3032 303226 16 White Flat Tile 1x2 3069b 306901 119 Black Flat Tile 2x4 87079 4560182 36 Black Flat Tile 1x1 3070b 307026 18 White Flat Tile 1x3 63864 4558168 41 Black Flat Tile 1x2 3069b 306926 15 Black Flat Tile 1x4 2431 243126 12 Bright Yellow Flat Tile 1x1 3070b 307024 16 Bright Yellow Flat Tile 1x2 3069b 306924 12 Black Flat Tile 1x3 63864 4558170 3 Black Flat Tile 2x2 3068b 306826 14 Black Flat Tile 1x6 6636 663626 16 White Flat Tile 1x1 3070b 307001 6 Bright Yellow Plate 1x12 60479 n/a 2 Black Flat Tile 8x16 90498 n/a 8 Black Plate 1x1 3024 302426 6 Bright Yellow Plate 1x4 3710 371024 10 Black Plate 1x4 3710 371026 4 Bright Yellow Plate 1x8 3460 n/a 4 Black Plate 1x2 w/fork, vertical 60471 n/a 2 Black Plate 2x4 3020 302026 2 Black Plate 2x2 3022 302226 4 Bright Yellow Plate 1x2 3023 302324 24 Medium Stone Grey Plate 1x1 3024 4211399 2 Medium Stone Grey Round Brick 1x1 3062b 4211412 1 Medium Stone Grey Column 1x1x16 43888 n/a 1 Medium Stone Grey Nose cone small 1x1 4589 n/a 1 Medium Stone Grey Stick/Aerial 3957b 4211473 1 Black Flag with 2 holders 2335 n/a 1 White Flag with 2 holders 2335 6011794 8 Bright Blue Brick 1x2 3004 300423 4 Bright Blue Brick 1x1 W.

  I developed an interactive tabletop voting system as part of my work within the transmedia collective ‘Counterpilot’. Hidden within the table were a series of 36 custom built RFID sensors, three for each place setting. When these sensors detected a voting token above, OSC messages were sent to a central computer that would tally the common vote. Using a dinner party as a metaphor, Crunch Time is a performantive dinner party modelled on the democratic process.

  Persistence is an interactive adventure that was presented at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Festival. Audience members wore a custom built electronic badge, the artificially intelligent running coach Corey. Participants adopted the role of a runner, while Corey guided them around the Cairns Esplanade and through a series of challenges. Each challenge explored how they juggled the demands of their lives against their ambitions.

  Custom software observes the motion of fifty interactive spheres of light. When accelerating during interaction, they glow brightly. When left alone, they glow dimly. By engaging with the exhibit, visitors explored how their presence influences everyday life. Interaction with Inertia alters the experience for all those within the space. These transient social experiences hint at interactions with a wider community. How, through collective effort, communities become bright, attractive places.

  I developed SMS ‘switchboard’ software as part of my work within the transmedia collective ‘Counterpilot’. This switchboard software enabled operators to have about 100 simultaneous SMS conversations with participants within the audience. I used the Twilio API to communicate with the short message service, and a decision tree was used to structure the narrative of a character that they only ‘saw’ as SMS messages. Season: 2017/11/07 - 2017/11/18, Metro Arts.

After we finished putting together five-0, my daughter put in a request for her own running shirt: “Ummm. I really want to have a rainbow on my t-shirt. Bursting out, and with the colours of a rainbow.” The rainbow shirt is fabricated from 14 APA102 LEDs, and an Attiny85. It is powered by two AA batteries and a DC to DC boost convertor.

  FIVE-0 is high performance running apparel for rappers. Data from a wearable heart rate monitor augments the lighting pattern displayed on the atheletes chest. At lower heart rates a pulsing gold medallion beats in time with the rappers heart. When their heart rate approaches the aerobic zone, the medallion disolves into a sparkling diamante pattern. FIVE-0 is constructed from APA102 led strips, an Intel Edison, a TI 74AHCT125 level shifter and is powered by a 4400mAh powerbank.

DanceDanceSense is an economical sensor that can be worn to track movement. Accelerometer readings are sent as OSC messages via WiFi. The sensor is fitted with a small infrared LED that can be tracked with external cameras. Bill of Materials: 1 x NodeMCU ESP8266 amzn 1 x ADXL345 Accelerometer amzn 1 x 60mm * 80mm Protoboard amzn 1 x 3.7V LiPo Battery & charger amzn 1 x 1.4V Infrared LED amzn 2 x 4.

This is SpaceX’s crewed Dragon2 Capsule in LEGO and is a companion model to the Falcon 9 first stage rocket. The Crew Dragon will be a human-rated vehicle that is capable of making a soft terrestrial landing. This model features: 4 SuperDraco powered ‘jet packs’. Ejectable nose cone. The unpressurized cargo ‘trunk’. Stabalising fins. The second stage and merlin vacuum engine. Approx 1:124 scale (~19cm tall). Construction: Quantity Color Description Bricklink LEGO Element ID* 4 Dark Stone Grey Plate 2x2 Round 4032 4211042 1 Brick Yellow Slide Shoe 2x2 2654 4278422 3 Medium Stone Grey Plate 4x4 Round W.

This is SpaceX’s Orbcomm2 payload in LEGO and is a companion model to the Falcon 9 first stage rocket. This payload was launched into low Earth orbit and features: 11 second-generation OG2 satellites. Mass simulator for balancing the payload. The second stage and merlin vacuum engine. Approx 1:124 scale (~21cm tall). Construction: Quantity Color Description Bricklink LEGO Element ID* 7 Dark Stone Grey Plate 2x2 Round 4032 4211042 1 Brick Yellow Slide Shoe 2x2 2654 4278422 3 Medium Stone Grey Plate 4x4 Round W.

This is SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule in LEGO and is a companion model to the Falcon 9 first stage rocket. The Dragon is the first private spacescraft to visit the international space station. This model features: Pressurized cargo hold. Ejectable nose cone. The unpressurized cargo ‘trunk’. Solar arrays stowed in the launch configuration. The second stage and merlin vacuum engine. Approx 1:124 scale (~16cm tall). Construction: Quantity Color Description Bricklink LEGO Element ID* 4 Dark Stone Grey Plate 2x2 Round 4032 4211042 1 Brick Yellow Slide Shoe 2x2 2654 4278422 4 Medium Stone Grey Plate 4x4 Round W.

  ASCII uses a Raspberry Pi and camera to render live video only using the characters “.',^*+=c"otzxe$#BW”. Each keystroke is uniquely rendered in the style of a mechanical typewriter. An ‘ink-strike’ determines the intensity of the key-press. Any misalignment is calculated along with smudges and ink-bleeding. Occasionally, it makes a transpositional typo. The underlying font is a digitised version of IBM’s Selectric typewriter (‘Courier New’). Season: 2017/04/14 - 2017/06/17, Shoot from the Hip.

  Marsarium 9 was a terrarium with authentic martian growing conditions on the inside. Accurate martian soil was developed from data collected by NASA’s opportunity and curiosity rovers. A plant is transplanted into the Marsarium and the atmosphere ‘marsified’, and the atmosphere within is replaced with a martian analogue of 96% CO2, 2% Ar and 2% N2. A ceiling mounted ‘flight recorder’ creates a timelapse of the mission which is displayed alongside the marsarium.

  Tron Tunnel is an interactive light tunnel developed by Kurt Schoenhoff for a discotheque party held in Cairns. Inspired by the movie Tron, ultrasonic sensors detect patrons passing through the tunnel and blast a burst of light from LED strips that line an Aluminium hexagonal tunnel. Related Articles: On Open Love Letter to Meagan Streader Credits: Artist: Kurt Schoenhoff

  Opera is an over-engineered manhole cover. Software on a Raspberry Pi reads audio data from a Behringer C-2 microphone, which is passed into a fast fourier transform and used to generate a lighting sequence based on the audio data. Season: 2016/08/06 - 2016/10/01, eight-by-ten. KickArts Contemporary Arts, Cairns(AU). Dimensions: 1050 x 820 x 300mm Credits: Music: Metaeaux Related Articles: How to Connect a Studio Microphone to the Raspberry Pi What are the best SD cards to use in a Raspberry Pi?

Weather Machine II is an interactive installation developed by Nathen Street for the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service. Inspired by the natural water cycle, the machine captures the essence of evaporation, precipitation and flow. When someone grips monitor paddles, their heartbeat powers the different phases of the water cycle: tornado (evaporation), precipitation (water dripping into collection bowls) and flow process (water moving through and reused in a closed system).

This is SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in LEGO. The model featured above is based on the first rocket that SpaceX successfully landed (Flight 20, Orbcomm OG2 M2), it has: Deployable hypersonic grid fins. Deployable landing legs. Nine Merlin engines in an ‘octaweb’ alignment. Approx 1:124 scale (~40cm tall) SpaceX livery in custom decals. Construction: Quantity Color Description Bricklink LEGO Element ID* 1 Black Plate 2x2 3022 302226 4 Black Plate 1x2x2 2420 242026 2 Black Plate 4x4 Round W.

  About twelve months ago I left full time employment to become an engineering monk. I wanted to bang away on my keyboard and create, just for fun, without any distractions. Not to create a business, not to make products that people want, not to discover something new. But to indulgently explore oddities that perhaps only I find interesting. This is a short glimpse into the oddities and tumbles from the year.

This is Capital City was a site specific theatre performance presented at the Brisbane Powerhouse. Audience members carried an Android based mobile device that played audio at different locations around the powerhouse. I wrote software that ran on the mobile devices, and used iBeacons for indoor positioning. Related Articles: How accurate are Estimote iBeacons How responsive are Estimote iBeacons Source code: TriggerTracker Credits: Director: Sandra Carluccio Dramaturg: Nathan Sibthorpe Writer: Toby Martin Sound designer: Mike Willmett Live Cast: Kylie Stephenson, Cameron Clark, Terri-Leigh Redding and Christos Mourtzakis Voice actors: Peter Cossar, Sandra Gattenhof, Lauren Jackson, Toby Martin, Kate O’Sullivan, Belinda Rasin and Lucas Stibbard

The fifth curiosity of my monastic engineering experience. This is a combination floor lamp, book case, bedside table and charging station. Made from plywood and stainless steel if features exposed circuitry and wiring. Published on the side of the cabinet is the dimming software running on an Arduino nano. A 10cm diameter aluminium hand wheel controls the lamp dimming feature. Acknowledgements: The ‘Pradhan’ light switch, was a gift from Michael Candy, who found it on his travels through India.

Analogue.js is a canvas based typesetter that better simulates the output of a mechanical typewriter. Add the 'analogue' class to your element and analogue.js will do the rest. Analogue replaces existing HTML elements with a canvas. It then generates a unique ink-strike for each key-press, along with any misalignment. It even occasionally smudges a character or renders transpositional typos. The underlying font is a digitised version of IBM's Selectric typewriter ('Courier New').

  The third curiosity of my monastic engineering experience. A dynamic light system for my aquarium. The frame, constructed from 12mm plywood holds two large aluminium heatsinks. Twelve 1 watt LED’s are each independently controlled by Meanwell LDD drivers. A Seeeduino mega and custom PCB generates a simulated sunrise and sunset. A fixed daylight period provides illumination for live aquatic plants. Related Articles: Online Vendors for Australian Makers

I wanted a fairly quiet aquarium filter for a small planted tank I was setting up. The tank is decently planted, and has a low stock of fish. Noise of the filter was more of a concern than surface agitation and water oxygen levels. I have been running this filter for five weeks now, and fish have lived with it for three. All are happy so far. To build this project you will need:

  The second curiosity of my monastic engineering experience. This is an ambient indicator for displaying the state of automated software builds. The enclosure is 3D printed in natural PLA and holds a custom PCB, Seeeduino Ethernet and DC-DC ‘buck’ converter. This curiosity requires 12volts of power supplied over the ethernet cable. The Seeeduino Ethernet reads data from Travis CI and converts the age of the last build into a servo position.

  The first curiosity of my monastic engineering experience. Built from Woolworths promotional materials, plywood, a Raspberry Pi and custom electronics. I was playing around with ideas of how economies become divorced from the finite constraints of our world. The Raspberry Pi reads data from the Australian Stock Exchange. When the price of Woolworths stock rises, the biodiversity of the curiosity improves. Geared DC motors turn on and the animals become ‘alive’.

I built a custom Android application as part of my work within the transmedia collective ‘Counterpilot’. Bluetooth iBeacons helped track the indoor location of participants as they moved around Brisbane’s domestic airport terminal. The position of the player dynamically mixed the underlying soundtrack and audio clues would be triggered at specific locations. Clarity in Transit was a word based, interactive treasure hunt style game. Season: 2014/11/14 - 2014/11/18, Clarity in Transit.

TriggerTracker is an Android application used in site specific theatre performances. When used on mobile devices, TriggerTracker delivers content for immersive theatre experiences. Supporting both GPS and iBeacon positioning technology, TriggerTracker works in outdoor and indoor environments. Video and Audio files can be customised to play at specific locations and times. Dynamic soundtracks are also mixed live by TriggerTracker, creating a fluid atmosphere based on the location of participants. TriggerTracker powered performances: This is Capital City - Brisbane Powerhouse Clarity in Transit This is Capital City Where’s Alice This is Kansas City Source Code: https://github.

Light of Extinction is a work developed by Embodied Media. The centrepiece of the work was a robot actuating an illuminated cloth over a landscape of video, noise and embodied sound. I wrote the software that controlled the robot via OSC messages sent by Max/MSP. Related Articles: Non blocking control of stepper motors on Arduino Using Golang to connect Raspberry Pi’s and Arduino’s over Serial Source Code: https://github.

Golden Solution developed ‘Shower Party’ for the 2014 Nextwave festival in Melbourne. Partygoers and a goldfish were combined into a symbiotic ecosystem, where drinks consumed by patrons drained the fishes tank by an equal amount. Meanwhile the movement of the fish distorted the sound track heard by party goers. Over three hours, an exploration of the tragedy of the commons unfolded. Would party goers destroy the fishes environment for their own personal inebriation?

  Golden Orbs is a series of suspended fractal cloud-like sculptures. Modelled on a simulated brain neurone, interaction stems from what each sculpture is able to observe. Fitted with a webcam, each sculpture monitors the space underneath for physical activity. Random lighting sequences are then seeded from any detected activity. Networked together, emergent lighting patterns unfold across the whole series of sculptures. These patterns are reminiscent of those found in EEG scans of the brain.

  Cowboy Jukebox is a distributed instrument, where ‘band members’ carry mobile devices. Each device, a small piece of a larger distributed instrument. The GPS locations from each mobile device synthesises the sound generated by the instrument. All participants share the same auditory experience, and any band member can twist and change what the others can hear. Related Articles: Cowboy Jukebox, Distributed Musical Instruments and FirefoxOS Javascript enlightenment at CampJS Source code: https://github.

  This is Capital City was a site specific theatre performance created by Sandra Carluccio. Audience members were navigated by an Android based mobile phone application that would trigger sound at different GPS and time based triggers. Source code: https://github.com/cfreeman/TriggerTracker Credits: Director: Sandra Carluccio Writers: Toby Martin and Claire Jarvis Sound designer: Mike Willmett Software developed in collaboration with Luke Atherton

&nbps; A fruit fly experiment that also doubled as an interactive instrument. The readings from the experiment were taken live and synthesised into musical notes. Displayed at a Science Fair, children were able to ‘play’ the current state of the experiment. Participants were able to compare the sounds made by the different dependant variables against the sounds made by the control conditions. Related Articles: UNTITLED SOUND PROJECT TWO. Source Code: https://github.

  Michael Candy’s serial space project featured an instrument that would react to the proximity of audience members. I wrote an Arduino sketch that read from an infared proximity sensor and translated the input into servo commands that powered the piano. Related Articles: Piano Thing. Source code: https://github.com/cfreeman/piano Credits: Artist: Michael Candy Video: Alex Cuffe

Where’s Alice was a theatre performance developed by the backbone youth ensemble. Audience members were navigated by an Android based mobile phone application that would trigger sound and video at different GPS and time based triggers. Related Articles: Where’s Alice Source Code: https://github.com/cfreeman/TriggerTracker/tree/WheresAlice Credits: Director: Emma Che Martin New Media Director: Daniel Flood Performers: James Davie, Carlie Dole, Sarah Kelly, Errin Rodger, Kristen Swindlehurst and Sarah Telfer Photo by the backbone crew

A site specific theatre performance Developed by Sandra Carluccio. It was an Android based phone application hooked together with a web-app writen in Ruby on Rails. At specific locations, GPS triggers would make calls to phones carried by audience memebers. Related Articles: Behind the Curtains of This is Kansas City. Source Code: https://github.com/cfreeman/TriggerTracker/tree/KansasCity https://github.com/cfreeman/teethtracker-server/tree/KansasCity Credits: Director: Sandra Carluccio Sound design: Imraan Paleker Photo: Lynette Letic

This was a system built in Android, Ruby on Rails and .net. It was used to track people around large indoor venue for the 48hour game making challenge here in Brisbane. Related Articles: How to track mobile phones using bluetooth. Source code: https://github.com/cfreeman/teethtracker-client https://github.com/latherton/teethtracker-register https://github.com/cfreeman/teethtracker-server Credits: Developed with: Luke Atherton Photo: Lubi Thomas

  Was a room sized instrument, which generated sound and video based on the positions of people within the room. People were tracked using an xbox Kinect and a heavily modified version of Synapse to send OSC messages to Ableton Live and Quartz Composer. Source Code: https://github.com/cfreeman/the_room Credits: Developed with: Daniel Flood, Luke Atherton, Andrew Curnock, Nathan Street, Anna Gerber, Ian Jones and Amanda Slack-Smith. Photo: Nathen Street

This is a neat little award that you can download and hammer out on your 3D printer. Great for school fête, science fairs and the like. 3D file can be downloaded from thingiverse. More details about the design can be found in this blog post.

My Pick Flick (no longer online) was a movie rating website, that allowed you to find, rate, review and watch the trailers for good ‘man movies’ and ‘chick flicks’. Technology: Ruby on Rails, Javascript and PostgreSQL.

  UserMetrix (no longer online) helps software companies understand how users interact with their applications. It provides them with reproduction steps for sources of user frustration, and helps developers understand how their application is used by their customers. Technology: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Java, C, C# and PostgreSQL. Related Articles: How to Automatically Reproduce Software Errors. Credits: The development of UserMetrix was supported by NICTA.

Datavyu (formally named OpenSHAPA) is an opensource desktop application for researchers. Datavyu integrates and displays all kinds of data, letting you discover the big picture while remaining connected with raw data. Datavyu will let you build and organise interpretations, and will assist with analysis. Source Code: https://github.com/databrary/datavyu Acknowledgements: The earliest precursor to Datavyu is ‘MacSHAPA’. Penelope Sanderson designed MacSHAPA at the University of Illinois in the early 90’s. OpenSHAPA was the modernisation of MacSHAPA that evolved into DataVyu.

Dracel (no longer online) was a delivery tracking web site that plotted the current location of your parcel on a map. Technology: Ruby on Rails, Javascript.

This is a companion design for the above 1st place ribbon. A little printable badge for judges awarding the prizes. This was done in conjunction with Brett Sirianni from The Edge who did the original design in 2D. 3D files can be downloaded from thingiverse.

This is a replacement part for a desktop Ikea lamp. The original plastic part is fairly weak and breaks easily. Using this design you are able to print a much stronger replacement. 3D file can be downloaded from thingiverse. More details about the design can be found in this blog post.

This was a job application I worked up for Team Bondi. They were working ‘L.A. Noire’, a neo-noir detective video game. So I worked up a model of the Los Angeles theatre El Rey, and my application look like a police file. I got interviewed a couple of times, but missed out on the job. This marked the end of my gameplay and 3D modelling phase. A couple of weeks after this, I got a new job working on the 3D engine for an engineering CAD product.

A location-aware game based on Pacman and developed for the pocketPC. The position of player in the game was determined by the real-world location of the user, that was derived by measuring signal strengths to local wireless base stations. This application was developed in embedded C++ and employed client/server architecture to shift complex computations to a more powerful stationary server. Related Articles: Madman. Source code: Pocket PC code written from when I was an undergraduate?

Billabong bandits was another little incomplete game design idea, it quickly turned into an excuse for me to play around with some advanced rendering and shadowing techniques in 3DS max.

Bystander was a Quake III mod I developed for a while in 2001. It was all geared around an assassin gameplay mechanic, you can find out more details over at moddb. I wrote game logic in C, did map development and 3D modelling in 3DS max. I think this was the first project during my ‘gameplay and 3D modelling’ phase. Credits: Developed with: Michael Wiggett, Davide Rizzo, Stephen Macrae, Steven Lehmann and Ross Eldridge.