Category Archives: Programming

KINETIX

By Sam PL | Published: March 10, 2010
KINETIX is a colorful, fast-paced casual game that uses only a webcam for input.  A computer vision algorithm detects motion and alternatively rewards and punishes players for moving.  Originally conceptualized as a children’s toy to encourage physical activity, the game’s simplicity allows it to be be played by anyone, either alone, competitively, or collaboratively–with any [...]
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Joystick and Guitar Hero MIDI Scripting

By Sam PL | Published: August 21, 2009
For an Independent Study this past summer semester, I set out to tackle some novel approaches to controlling music. I ended up writing patches for the graphical programming language MAX/MSP that allowed me to receive signals from game controllers and convert them to MIDI signals, which were then received in my favorite music software: [...]
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wConnect Facebook Application

By Sam PL | Published: September 1, 2008
During the summer of 2008 I worked with in the Computer Supported Collaboration and Learning Lab at PSU’s School of IST.  My work focused on developing a facebook application for wConnect, a social alliance of women in information technology headed by Mary Beth Rosson, using PHP and the Facebook API. The project required careful handling of [...]
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Radio Player for Yahoo! Widgets

By Sam PL | Published: January 31, 2008
I designed an audio streaming widget for the Yahoo! Widget Engine for our student radio station. So far, we’ve have more than 2,000 downloads. View or download here. The player is based off of an earlier version of the 5FM Streamer Widget. Some of the other radio widgets were visually way too [...]
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