Archive for March, 2011

Face Tracking Research – DroidDoes.com

Last spring one of the guys on the team whipped up a fun little Flash game that used motion tracking (via frame-differencing) to have a boxing glove follow the user’s hand around the screen, batting away hamburger projectiles. It was cute and fluffy, but kept messing up whenever the user moved their head or talked, [...]

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Face Tracking Research – DroidDoes.com

[click above to view a short video (I show up at 00:11)] Last spring one of the guys on the team whipped up a fun little Flash game that used motion tracking (via frame-differencing) to have a boxing glove follow the user’s hand around the screen, batting away projectiles. It was cute and fluffy, but [...]

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The Junkyard Jumbotron

This is great.  I’ve been thinking for a while about how to use the silly little Augmented Reality markers (that I hate) in a different way, and this new video out of MIT looks like they’re heading down the same path. Since the purpose of the AR tag is to provide a physical basis for [...]

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Building a Social Media Listening Platform from scratch

The brief from management was to build a system capable of collecting brand mentions from all over the web, organizing and analyzing them, and then displaying them on an interface that we could distribute to our clients and account managers. Mcgarrybowen needed its very own Social Media Listening Platform.

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Building a Social Media Listening Platform from scratch

[click above to view a short video] The brief from management was to build a system capable of collecting brand mentions from all over the web, organizing and analyzing them, and then displaying them on an interface that we could distribute to our clients and account managers.  Mcgarrybowen needed its very own Social Media Listening [...]

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Playing with batteries on an iPad

Fun! Throw some batteries on your iPad and see what happens. Things I found out: The batteries would all transmit the touch from my finger to the screen, even if I touched through the plastic coating. Balancing the D up on its positive terminal had the best effect. Most of the time it would just [...]

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“Why I love my 3D printer”

Love this kid.

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