Here are the links that I showed in my presentation.
Places to buy
http://www.imagesco.com/
www.sparkfun.com
www.robotshop.ca
www.dgikey.com
www.jameco.com
www.phidgets.com
Reference
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/remotedriver2/
http://2005to2007.fabrica.it/tuned_stairs/old/index.html
http://www.uva.co.uk/archives/
http://www.arduino.cc
http://www.phidgets.com
I am currently sitting in the Chicago airport waiting for my delayed connection to Minneapolis. Seriously though does any flight leave here on time? I am super excited for Flashbelt as I am every year. There is just a great vibe that surrounds this conference which I think is directly related to it’s small and intimate size. I’ve been having a lot of fun over the last several weeks preparing for my presentation. I will be giving a beginners guide to getting Phidgets and Arduino to talk with Flash. I am hoping to show people that it’s not that complicated to get up and running quickly and get some really simple examples running. If you have experience with Phidgets or Arduino then the session may be a little basic, but hopefully you can be inspired by some of the examples I will show. If you are attending the conference feel free come and say hi, or sing a duet on Wednesday night at Nye’s.
Stacey and I arrived in Lisbon today to attend OFFF. Although not really a Flash conference I know there will be some familiar faces around. If you are here get in touch and we can have a few Super Bock’s together.
Flashbelt is only a few weeks away and I am getting very excited. This conference has to be the one I get the most excited for every year, and this year will not disappoint. There are only 400 tickets available and I can ensure you they will go quickly. The speaker line up this year is amazing and I am sure my brain will hurt once it’s all over. Night time events are always a blast – especially the last night at Nye’s.
About a month ago we launched our first major Papervision3D site www.avpvu.com. It’s a promo site for the Alien vs. Predator Requiem DVD. It uses a mix Papervision3D, 2D and live action video.
I don’t want to give too much of it away so I urge you to go and check it out for your self.
I have been patiently waiting for the last 6 months to write this post. Back in April of 07 we started on what I think is the coolest project I have ever had the pleasure to work on. Today we launched www.fairiesanddragons.com. This is the accompanying site for the very first Interactive Digital Happy Meal Toy that we created for McDonald’s. The toy launched this month in some markets in Europe, and will continue to roll out from now until June. It is so great to finally see our idea and characters come to life online, on tv, and in stores after working on it for over a year now.
While the developing the toys, our talent and knowledge was tested on a daily basis. It was an emotional roller coaster at times, but we came away learning a lot. I have never been so proud of our Flash team, and entire production team for that matter. I will be giving a talk at FiTC next week on the development process of creating the interactive toy and some of the things we learned along the way. I will be posting some of the content from the presentation here afterwards, so if you can’t make it be sure to come back and check it out.
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If you want to read more about the overall process and see screen shots and videos, check out the case study on our site.
If you are having problems installing any of the characters off of the CD you can contact support { at } fairiesanddragons.com. Please include what Operating System you are using and the issue that you are having.
All Girl Arcade (www.allgirlarcade.com) is a brand new gaming portal for girls aged 8 – 10 developed by Fuel Industries. It’s a completely free site with the goal of helping to fill the void of great kids content online. The site is based around the adventures of Fuel’s own original characters, the All Girl Star Squad, a trio of video game champions who, thanks to their gaming skills, become the unlikely heroes to a group of wacky space creatures trying to stop the evil Raveena from turning the universe into her own personal playground.
In addition to a collection of games based on this story, the site also features console and handheld reviews, a friends network, webisodes, and a ‘mall’ where players can spend the gems they win playing games. The more you play, the more additional content and gifts you can unlock! In a sea of make-up and shopping games for girls, All Girl Arcade stands out with a great story and unique characters which give girls a chance to carve their own space in the gaming world.
Over the weekend Fuel Industries was featured in the citizen a couple of times.
The first article was on the front page of the Saturday paper and talks about our up coming Happy Meals product with McDonald’s. I will also be speaking about this at FITC this April in Toronto.
 The second article and video takes a tour of our studio and shows of some of the cool spots in the office. The video only shows a small portion of what is a really cool space.
I’ll be attending MIX in Las Vegas in a couple of weeks and was wondering if anyone else from the Flash community will be going as well. I know it’s a Microsoft conference, but it would be good to see some familiar faces around. Also, there is a photo treasure hunt that takes place on March 4th. It sounds like it could be a lot of fun. If you are interested in putting in a team let me know.
Multimedia released Zinc 3.0, their next generation SWF2Exe application, this week. I played around with it a couple of weeks ago when it was released to current users, and I have to say the improvements are amazing. My favorite improvements are the new UI and the ability to only include the libraries that you are using in your application. Last year we did a lot of work with the 3 major players in this area, Zinc, mProjector, and SWFStudio, and for me my preference is Zinc. I am really looking forward to porting over some of our applications to version 3 to see if there is a substantial performance difference.
