PROJECTS
Home Robot
An Aloha Mini — open-source dual-arm mobile robot with motorized lift for embodied AI research and home automation.
OpenClaw
A local OpenClaw installation — open-source autonomous AI agent running on home infrastructure.
Prowess
Borrow agent skills without installing them — builds a temp plugin, launches your agent, and cleans up when done
StackStacks
Share your dev setup and discover alternative developer environments from other users
Extendo
iOS app and CLI that lets AI agents request human decisions and approvals through structured mobile interfaces
Dr. Botcher's Minute Medical School
Give us 20 minutes, and we'll train you up as a certifiable freelance surgeon
Gearmo Del Pouro
A robot who can pour you a drink and put a smile on your face
Piñata Party
VR piñata so real, you'd think you were standing in a tiny town in Mexico
Space Squad in Space
You're the bridge crew of this mostly working starship
Dunk Tank Flambe
The classic dunk tank... reimagined with fire!
Asteroids
The classic game of Asteroids, rendered by laser on a floor
STEAM Carnival
A traveling carnival to inspire kids about Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math
Facelogger
Making face flash cards to help with my face blindness
DieHard Battery
We make a giant piano out of cars, so Gary Numan can play Cars on the cars.
OK GO Rube Goldberg Machine
The infamous OK GO Rube Goldberg Machine Video
Cloud Mirror
You'll come face to face with your Internet Self, and you won't like what you see
ShadowSmoke
Manipulate luminous smoke in this interactive projected installation
Demolition Zone
Your job is to take down a building in this very physical game for two players
Club01
Two Bit Circus' interactive gameshow theater
Laser Maze
Can you get through the maze without breaking the beams? And look good doing it?
Paintball Robot
A robot that paints pictures using paintballs
Hexaball
A game of domination with the world's largest trackballs
Servo Orchestra
Fun with servos and musical instruments
Spacebike
The classic game of Asteroids, using a bicycle as a controller
Google Rube Goldberg Machine
Another Rube Goldberg Machine for Google's Global Science Fair
Identity Tree
See your online identity rendered as a plant in this commissioned museum piece
K-Cup
An experimental chording keyboard designed for my physiology and psychology
Wonka Candy Display
An animated window display in Times Square for Wonka Chocolate
DNA Sequencer
Hundreds of discrete LEDs form this long colorful art display
Sockieokie
Karaoke, but you're singing with other people's faces
Standard Gravity
Physics made beautiful, rendered on a giant LED wall
Haptic Compass
I develop a sixth sense for absolute direction with this compass belt
The Puck
An experimental physical computing idea
Artfall
An ordinary whiteboard becomes an interactive play space
NotPocketSimon
My first interactive game. The classic game of Simon played by four people.
TRS-80 Bluetooth
I turn a TRS-80 into a networked terminal as a prank
2020
- Booper — A barcode sound machine to amuse my 4 year old
- Fun In Exile — A web-streamed interactive gameshow about the 2020 pandemic
- Real Fake News — You and five friends become the cast of KOMG News
2019
- Freefall — Jump off a building in VR... and in real life
2018-2020
- Metagame — Physical and digital adventures in Two Bit Circus
- Trivia Show — Trivia, game-show style in Club01 at Two Bit Circus
- Whiskey & Wine Shows — Like no tasting you've ever experienced
2018
- Balloon Pop — Throw ball-pit balls at virtual targets in this midway game meets mobile game
- Last Ball Standing — Six players compete to be the king of the hill with the world's largest trackballs
- Qmongous — A tablet-based queueing system for managing guests waiting for attractions at Two Bit Circus
- Skidoo — More pixels than you need in this experimental arcade platform
- snork — A windows process manager controlled by redis
2017-2020
- Walnut — A game engine for developing immersive out-of-home experiences
2017
- Two Bit Circus Pop-Up Book — A foray into the art of creating pop-up books
2016
- Cosmic Contagion — An early Story Room about a missing scientist in a remote lab
- D.E.J.A — A storytelling interactive cube
- Kaleidoscope — A kaleidoscope, where your face is the center of the flower
- Oomiyu — An origami owl robot powered by Intel
- Pacman VR — In VR, you become the PacMan. And your friends become the ghosts...
- Rhino Joinery Tools — Tools for Rhino3d to perform common laser and CNC joinery
- Spell Binder — A Magic Mirror installed in several Dave & Busters
- The Auction — An immersive theater piece done with augmented audio reality
2015-2017
- Kyogen — An early framework for building immersive story rooms
2015
- ofxPolysave — An OpenFrameworks add-on to record shapes
- Wild Blue Yonder — Bringing a much-loved comic book to life with Intel Realsense
2014
- ofxSubprocess — An OpenFrameworks addon to launch and manage subprocesses
- The Flash S.T.A.R. Labs — A mobile Story Room to promote the launch of The Flash on CW
2013
- Balls to the Wall — A game played by throwing balls against a projected wall
- Great Forest Challenge — A Story Room for kids, built for Great Wolf Lodge
- Off Your Rocker — Race to the finish on these colorful rocking chairs
2012-2020
- Buttonwall — Smash buttons!
- Hexacade — Games are more fun with six people facing each other
2011
- Augmented Reality Turret — Augmented reality, before it was a thing
- Cyclo — A robotic unicycle puppet made for Red Bull Creation competition in 72 hours
- Projection Mapped Interior Decorating — A tool for doing interior decorating using projection mapping on white furniture
- Puppet Show — A digital puppet show for a deserving family
- Sip & Puff — A pitching machine controlled by a paraplegic's sip & puff machine
2010
- ColorSpot — A mobile game, when phones were new
2009
- Color Night Vision — See color in the dark!
- Kuka Bomb-Defusal Robot — Three Kuka robots come together Voltron-style for this robot capable of defusing bombs
- Narcisystem — Where I attach an array of biosensors to my body to mess with people at a party
2008-2009
- Self-Driving OHV — An early self-driving car I can't tell you much about!
2008
- VR Command Center — Control real computers around the world in VR. In 2008.
2007-2009
- Zeta — A software framework in C & Python for building semi-autonomous robots
2007
- Concept Car — A concept car for a major auto manufacturer I can't tell you much about
- Ms. PacMan IKEA Table — Nobody ever expands their expanding dinner tables, so I stuffed a custom Ms Pacman in mine