Scanning Ancient Scrolls

In early 2019 I was approached by a colleague from my days working at the Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments at the UK College of Engineering with some contract work. He was in charge of creating an apparatus capable of quickly and autonomously taking photographs of ancient scrolls from a library in Italy. And

Making a Better Cat Feeder

My wife’s cat is fat. She (the cat) has a love-hate relationship with eating because it inconveniences her tight schedule of sleeping around the clock. To squeeze eating into her periods of activity, she goes on crazed binges of food inhalation that generally result in projectile vomiting undigested food across the house. Tired of stepping

Happy Balloon

A local pediatrician’s office wanted to outfit their waiting room with an easy-to-pick-up game that would keep the kids entertained while waiting for their appointment. Aside from a request for it to be hot air balloon themed, I was given creative leeway to come up with whatever I wanted. Enter Happy Balloon. Originally named “Flappy

Interactive Visual Experience (IVE) Exhibit

IVE is the union of a Processing sketch with several “sensor boxes” controlled by an Arduino microcontroller.
As users interact with the buttons and ultrasonic sensors mounted to these boxes, the display of the Processing sketch projected on a wall changes. Users can interact with what type of objects are drawn on the screen, where the objects are located, object colors, object velocities, and more. The point of this installation is to encourage cooperation between users in creating a dynamic piece of art.

Jet Fighter Flight Simulator

This exhibit was another contract through the Explorium of Lexington. The Explorium had acquired an out-of-date trainer cockpit in which museum patrons could sit and marvel at the number of controls available to pilots, and use their imagination to take to the skies. They approached us (myself and Enomalies (Bill Gregory)) with a request to liven up the simulator with lights, a joystick and sound effects. We did them one better. We installed a gaming joystick in the cockpit and developed two games to engage the users in the wonders of flight. Check out the video below to view the flight simulator in action: