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  • NIME 2020

    This week I’ve been attending NIME’20, the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference. I’ve was involved in running the workshop “10,000 Instruments for a Semi-Connected World” on Tuesday, in which we attempted…

    July 24, 2020

  • InstructiBlocks

    Currently working with Lego on the InstructiBlocks project. Placing ambiguous instructions inside Lego with RFID tags.  

    August 4, 2016

  • Ferromagnetic Input Device (with ball bearings!)

    An interesting project from Microsoft Research that uses an array of magnetic sensors to allow the detection of “any ferrous object placed on or near its surface”. The BeatBearing is referenced (in…

    August 13, 2010

  • NIME 07

    Have entered a short paper into the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference. The title of the paper is “Effortful Interaction: Playing the Edge-trimmer”. This years conference will take place in New…

    February 1, 2007

  • 3 Month Review

    Have completed my 3 month review. You can download the full pdf file from: www.petecube.com/blog/documents/3-month-review.pdf This sums up my current research proposal, and lays out a very rough plan of what I…

    January 16, 2007

  • Edge-trimmer prototype#2

    Ok, here’s the first real prototype of the edge-trimmer, which is a little more solidly constructed than the chair leg version… It currently isn’t hooked up to make any noise, although it…

    January 11, 2007

  • record spinning interface

    Just started a prototype of a new interface. A ‘Shake’ device containing accelerometers, magnetometers, bluetooth and capacitive sensors is strapped to the center of a 10″ record, allowing the user to perform…

    January 11, 2007

  • ‘Edge-trimmer’ prototype

    A very very rough prototype of a new instrument which may resemble an edge-trimmer has been made. So far this consists of an ergonomic handle (not a chair-leg!) connected to a magneto-rheological-fluid…

    November 29, 2006

  • mind map

    Have been learning to use GraphViz to create a research mind-map. So far I’ve only produced a small map, which isn’t particularly useful. Hopefully when the map grows to giant proportions, it…

    November 2, 2006

  • Pebblebox

    Have been given the pebblebox to set up and play with…

    October 12, 2006