Hi all,
Jerrem here again from Perth. Just a quick post about some of the new Technology Ive been using…
1. TAGTOOL
Ive modified my equipment so it can now run Tagtool. Tagtool is an Open Source hardware and software solution for live drawing and animation. YES this is the cool part.. we can now animate our digital graffiti. Tagtool was designed by OMA International who are based in Vienna, Austria. Its also been used by other GRL cells such as GRL brasil (they have an even cooler colour changing one!)
above: the setup complete
below: the general public using the system at the sydney design festival…
To get it working you need to wire up a customised controller based on the Arduino micro controller and run it with tagtool’s open source software. You can find all build info from the DIY section of the tagtool website.
Its a great solution and I’m looking forward to using the software more in the future.
2. Smallest Projector Bombing set-up
I’m quite sure this is the most portable projector bombing set-up to date
above: yes thats a projector, yes its the size of a mobile phone and yes it runs of batteries and has built in video storage. I took it up to the summit of Mt Kinabalu in Borneo for the highest digital graffiti or video art for that matter on earth. see the video below.
They call them pico projectors they use LEDs as a light source so the “globe” should last for ages. It surprised me with its usefulness, just don’t expect a clear image much bigger than a few metres. With an AV connector I can also use my mobile phone (mines a nokia n97) to do some live drawing too, or run some interactive flash games. Just the fact that this thing can just sit in my pocket means that there are now lots more digital graffiti projects that are now at arms reach. This is first generation technology however so they will hopefully get smaller, brighter and cheaper.. hopefully one day all mobile phones will have them integrated.
theres also a little more detail on my blog www.jerrem.com/notes . You also might wanna check my post about projector bombing ololo’s massive graffiti art carpark here
4 responses so far ↓
1 deph one // Sep 22, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Nice one, J-balls
2 lucas mafra // Nov 16, 2009 at 2:21 pm
greetings! this is lucas from brazil, i´m fred´s friend thanks for finding our tagtool even cooler! your stuff and all grl´s are damn cool !
3 whatnick // Feb 10, 2010 at 12:58 am
Hi Guys,
Thanks for coming by to Adelaide and letting us play with your cool toys. I finally got around to writing us the idea of streaming the drawing from the pad via VLC to another static machine connected to the projector. I also included some of the auto-cal open-source stuff I have been playing with. Having the building as the background (instead of black) would be pretty cool imho.
Anyway here goes:
http://whatnicklife.blogspot.com/2010/02/vlc-ad-inifinitum-doing-graffiti-with.html
4 Marty // Aug 6, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Howdy,
If you know anyone in Sydney keen to setup the tag tool in Newtown as part of the Pop Up Festival taking place in September, contact me.
It’ll be part of the Sydney Fringe Festival.
Marty
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