http://www.zen-sign.com Interactive Development Specialist Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:20:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.zen-sign.com/processing-supercollider/ http://www.zen-sign.com/processing-supercollider/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:04:09 +0000 Zack http://www.zen-sign.com/?p=402

Last week I was asked by fellow Richmond developer Scott Ackerman if I'd be interested in doing the Richmond DevJam 8 Session. He was really interested in doing some interactive audio. He suggested we try out SuperCollider and Processing to do so. I have never used SuperCollider and barely used Processing: Challenge accepted. Here's a summary of what we talked about.]]> http://www.zen-sign.com/processing-supercollider/feed/ 0 http://www.zen-sign.com/adding-fmod-ios-api-to-xcode-4-2/ http://www.zen-sign.com/adding-fmod-ios-api-to-xcode-4-2/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:13:41 +0000 Zack http://www.zen-sign.com/?p=372 FMOD is an amazing resource for developers wanting to do advanced things with audio and want a layer of abstraction and a more streamlined approach. That being said, getting the api up and running for iOS in Xcode 4.2 was tricky. So, I wanted to post the process i followed to get the library workign for me. Here's what I did to get it working.]]> http://www.zen-sign.com/adding-fmod-ios-api-to-xcode-4-2/feed/ 5 http://www.zen-sign.com/mac-osx-snow-leopard-cinder-kinect-quick-start/ http://www.zen-sign.com/mac-osx-snow-leopard-cinder-kinect-quick-start/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:03:49 +0000 Zack http://www.zen-sign.com/?p=347 http://www.zen-sign.com/mac-osx-snow-leopard-cinder-kinect-quick-start/feed/ 1 http://www.zen-sign.com/steamy-window-with-kinect-cinder-and-opencv/ http://www.zen-sign.com/steamy-window-with-kinect-cinder-and-opencv/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:34:05 +0000 Zack http://www.zen-sign.com/?p=325 I've had the opportunity lately to try out some new technologies. The first is a C++ creative coding library from the Barbarian Group called Cinder. The other is Adruino, which will be the topic of some upcoming posts. I specifically wanted to start using Cinder because I ultimately wanted to do some Kinect hacking. There is a Kinect CinderBlock that allows you get the Kinect up and running. Getting all the libraries installed and everything configured correctly can be rather involved, but mostly worth it. Check out my quick start to get set up.]]> http://www.zen-sign.com/steamy-window-with-kinect-cinder-and-opencv/feed/ 8 http://www.zen-sign.com/creating-a-facebook-check-in-app-using-the-graph-api-places/ http://www.zen-sign.com/creating-a-facebook-check-in-app-using-the-graph-api-places/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:56:36 +0000 Zack http://www.zen-sign.com/?p=303

I was taking a look at the some analytics for the blog and I noticed that a lot of people are visiting my Using OAuth and Graph API's in FaceBook Canvas Apps post. This leads me to believe there are a lot of people with Facebook Canvas app questions looking for more information. On that note, I decided to demonstrate some of the new capabilities of Places in the Graph API. This is a feature Facebook has just recently rolled out and provides for the basis of some new types of apps. An example would be special features or coupons offered to those who have checked-in to a place.]]> http://www.zen-sign.com/creating-a-facebook-check-in-app-using-the-graph-api-places/feed/ 10 http://www.zen-sign.com/finding-business-listings-and-displaying-with-mapkit-part-3/ http://www.zen-sign.com/finding-business-listings-and-displaying-with-mapkit-part-3/#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:06:43 +0000 Zack http://www.zen-sign.com/?p=281

Time to wrap up this 3 part series and put the final polish on our map. We need to do two basic thing. We need to replace the native pin annotation views with our custom views and we need to center the map to the selected pin.]]> http://www.zen-sign.com/finding-business-listings-and-displaying-with-mapkit-part-3/feed/ 21 http://www.zen-sign.com/finding-business-listings-and-displaying-with-mapkit-part-2/ http://www.zen-sign.com/finding-business-listings-and-displaying-with-mapkit-part-2/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:02:02 +0000 Zack http://www.zen-sign.com/?p=267 http://www.zen-sign.com/finding-business-listings-and-displaying-with-mapkit-part-2/feed/ 2 http://www.zen-sign.com/finding-business-listings-and-displaying-with-mapkit-part1/ http://www.zen-sign.com/finding-business-listings-and-displaying-with-mapkit-part1/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:13:57 +0000 Zack http://www.zen-sign.com/?p=205 http://www.zen-sign.com/finding-business-listings-and-displaying-with-mapkit-part1/feed/ 11 http://www.zen-sign.com/using-oauth-and-graph-apis-in-facebook-canvas-apps/ http://www.zen-sign.com/using-oauth-and-graph-apis-in-facebook-canvas-apps/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:17:45 +0000 Zack http://www.zen-sign.com/?p=212

On a FaceBook Canvas Application project I needed to post messages to a users wall using PHP. Now, you may or may not be aware, but FaceBook has switched to Open Authentication and Graph API's. There is quote a bit of documentation on the subject and it's implementation at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/. The only thing missing is direct examples on how to perform these tasks. I searched around a bit and found information on this topic scarce. So, for your viewing pleasure, here are a couple examples on how to use the OAuth and Graph API's.]]> http://www.zen-sign.com/using-oauth-and-graph-apis-in-facebook-canvas-apps/feed/ 14 http://www.zen-sign.com/as3-pv3d-go-fly-a-kite/ http://www.zen-sign.com/as3-pv3d-go-fly-a-kite/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:39:52 +0000 Zack http://www.zen-sign.com/?p=188

I'm back with another Papervision 3D based demo I call "Go Fly A Kite". The goal of this experiment was to combine a couple of the concepts I wrote about previously. This experiment combines bezier lines, custom meshes and whole bunch of other stuff like parallaxing, physics, perlin noise wind influence, etc. It would be a rather lengthy explanation of the source, so I am providing it for anyone to mull over. This is just an experiment and therefore not perfect, so use at your own risk. Feel free to comment any questions. Enjoy!]]> http://www.zen-sign.com/as3-pv3d-go-fly-a-kite/feed/ 0