Bullet points, since I'm not sure I can write in a proper manner at this time:

• My presentation went pretty well. Did have a problem when my Arduino-powered MIDI sequencer failed to work right, but otherwise everything worked. It even got covered on Hack A Day. I'll get slides online soon. And of course, this nice little Arduino hack gets published ( Read more... )

Okay, so when I previously said four, I meant six.

Yeah. I was poking at an actual demo over the weekend. For Mac OS X and/or Linux. I don't suppose either of those platforms can be made available for the competition? It's so far a number of OpenGL scenes with a tracked soundtrack (Yay for GLFW and libminifmod!). I'm not necessarily aiming to win ( Read more... )

OK, so I'm now planning on entering at least four Blockparty competitions- the two music ones, photo, and HiRez(I came up with a fairly dumb idea that I like last night, and it was pretty easy to do). I furthermore spent about an hour this evening debating doing an actual demo (though that would most likely be a 6502-based thing, so I can, y'know, ( Read more... )

Spöntz Realtime Visuals - runs on OS X and generates intermediate to be run by a cross-platform engine (so I won't have to pressure party organizers into supporting OS X). Looks like there's a bit of a learning curve, but I've got a good year to figure it out ( Read more... )

1. The Jam Session went, um, interestingly. It started with a lot of fairly unstructured noise, and eventually devolved into the worst cover band in the world. However, "Summer of '69" is significantly improved with vocoded vocals. I think the session going to be re-thought (or perhaps split in two) next year. I'd rather see something along the ( Read more... )