Category

Hacking

08.25.16

Bot Pocket Hacking, Physical Computing | (0)
Role: Built the mechanics, designed & 3d printed custom parts, designed and built relay and solenoid circuits for a rush pitch over a 3-4 day period. We built a twitter-enabled microwave to let you Tweet-to-Heat a Hot Pocket. While the campaign never launched, we had a lot of fun building the rush job for a friend's ad agency. Mark Kleeb, my studio mate at Floating Point developed the python-code to interface a Raspberry Pi with twitter as well as circuit bending the keypad on the microwave. In the meantime, I disassembled the door and replaced the latch with a mechanism that would ...
07.06.11

Hadokam Wins First Prize at GameHackDay Hacking, processing, Video Games | (0)
Hadokam is a collaborated street fighter 4 hack accomplished during the 24-hr hackathon GameHackDay NYC 2011 by Liangjie Xia, Bruno Kruse, Diego Rioja, Mustafa Bagdatli and myself. We developed software to manipulate a frontal picture of the player's face. It is projected onto the 3D character model extracted from the original game, generating a replacement skin texture file swapped back into the game for real gameplay. The character-model's proportions have also been modified to create a Big Head Mode, making the players' faces the main attraction. This makes for much more rewarding gameplay - the vicarious friend beatdown. A custom controller board was ...