Phew, what an amazing and exhausting day yesterday at the Maker Faire! Thanks to everyone who dropped by and said hello and played with the LoopMachine and the Jam Jars! Those of you interested in the Jars should check out my Amazing Rolo website for much more information about them, I’ll be posting schematics and [...]

Oh my goodness, this is getting exciting. We made it to San Francisco and checked into the Maker Faire yesterday. We’ve got booth number 121, so come on down and say hello! We have already seen a giant mechanical giraffe, an amazing set of prepared pianos, and a giant moving plastic bottle sculpture. Fantastic stuff. [...]

The Wii BeatLooper, which I showed off a couple of days ago in this video, is now available for download! Click here to download the standalone application for Mac OS X, as well as some free samples, a pdf that explains connecting the Wii remote to your computer, and the Max/MSP patches for anyone who [...]

Here’s a video showing off the first mini-wii-music-software I’ve made in celebration of going to the Maker Faire next week! It’s a simple beat looper that let’s use scratch, effect, and mess around while dancing around (and looking awesome, of course).
The plan is to have a bunch of little bits of software like this [...]

Next week the LoopMachine team is heading off to San Francisco for the Maker Faire! It’s very exciting stuff, and over the next week I will be using this blog to give a sneak peek at the preparations. Stay tuned, and check back soon for updates, videos, and even some treats!

A few months ago I was flattered to be invited to present at the very first edition of “This happened…” outside of London [edit: this is not actually true! sorry for the inaccurate statement, apparently it has also happened in Utrecht]. My presentation was all about my work with the Wii LoopMachine, and you can [...]