Curltable - development blog » csharp http://curltable.the-yard.net A snapshot of my projects. Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:34:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Curltable V1.0 Alpha released http://curltable.the-yard.net/curltable/curltable-v1-0-alpha-released http://curltable.the-yard.net/curltable/curltable-v1-0-alpha-released#comments Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:30:10 +0000 David http://curltable.the-yard.net/?p=266 The first release is ready for sharing. You can find the source at Github.

Master: http://github.com/DHoffm/Curltable
Archives: Zip, TAR

If somebody needs an installer feel free to send me an email and I will see what I can do.
There is still a long way to go so be nice with your comments!

Leave your interesting and creative responses in the comment section beloooowwwww.

]]> http://curltable.the-yard.net/curltable/curltable-v1-0-alpha-released/feed 2 Mouse Trail http://curltable.the-yard.net/curltable/mouse-trail http://curltable.the-yard.net/curltable/mouse-trail#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:25:46 +0000 David http://curltable.the-yard.net/?p=227 To improve the feedback of the turntable, especially for the plate, a bit I wrote a simple DrawableGameComponent which draw’s a mouse trail. Simply call it in your game via:

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Cursor c = new Cursor(this);

The component will register itself. You may need to adjust the elasticity, friction and the scaling of each Trail Point in the component to fit your needs.


Download: MouseTrail 1.0
Screenshots: MouseTrail in Curltable, Standalone

In addition I setup a little multitouch device like the one from here and used the TUIO library and the TUIO C# Client to have multiple Cursors. You will need to download the CCV from the NUIGroup too.


Download: MouseTrail MultiTouch

Feel free to use it in your Game.

]]> http://curltable.the-yard.net/curltable/mouse-trail/feed 0 Use a potentiometer in XNA http://curltable.the-yard.net/curltable/use-a-potentiometer-in-xna http://curltable.the-yard.net/curltable/use-a-potentiometer-in-xna#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:13:33 +0000 David http://curltable.the-yard.net/?p=186 During my first researches on the curltable I thought it would be nice to have some functions controlled by external elements such as potentiometers, buttons or sliders. So I gave it a try and used my Arduino and the serialPort class for communication to the board. What I tried was to control the tempo of an audio track by a potentiometer. Normally a SerialPort.readline() should be enough to get the right data from the desired Port but in this case I tried to integrate it into XNA. The problem here is that your game can either run with a fixed or a variable timestep. If you are using a variable timestep in XNA the readline method should work for you, if not it will hang because of timing issues. To get around that I used the SerialPort.ReadExisting() method instead. This one is reading the date without any timeout. Different then the readline method you need to seperate your incoming information from binary data such as ‘\n’ (newline) and ‘\r’ (carriage return) on your own. Also sometimes the information you get from this method are incorrect or incomplete. So you need to check that too. I set up a little example which can be downloaded from here.

]]> http://curltable.the-yard.net/curltable/use-a-potentiometer-in-xna/feed 0 The Curltable http://curltable.the-yard.net/curltable/the-curltable http://curltable.the-yard.net/curltable/the-curltable#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:16:27 +0000 David http://curltable.the-yard.net/?p=110 This is hopefully one of many posts about my ongoing work for the Curltable. You may ask what exactly the curltable is? Well it’s basically another approach on integrating digital music into a dj mix. There are already several other approaches out there which work fine for most people. What I tried to accomplish with this software is to simplify the mixing with digital music and to share a solution that is affordable. The complete paper on that idea can be found here. To get a first impression on it I uploaded a video, which I used during my presentation at the University of Applied Science Erfurt. You can also find some pictures of it on my flickr page.

The software is developed in XNA. To integrate audio I used the Bass Library and several add-ons. Currently I’m working hard on the optimization of the scratching mechanism and some other functionalities like looping and id3 tagging. If you have any questions or suggestions on that idea let me know.

]]> http://curltable.the-yard.net/curltable/the-curltable/feed 2 Pc talking to my Nikon D40 http://curltable.the-yard.net/blog/pc-talking-to-my-nikon-d40 http://curltable.the-yard.net/blog/pc-talking-to-my-nikon-d40#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:36:59 +0000 David http://curltable.the-yard.net/?p=74 I was working lately on a simple peace of program to control my Nikon D40 by a PC. This little app communicates through my Arduino board with the camera. To get my d40 to capture something I used a bit of code from Gustav von Roth which can be found here. This Code sends a signal over an IR Led to generate time lapse effects. An example is shown below.

I captured about 1 hour with an interval of 1000ms in this example. The Code and Arduino Sketch can be downloaded from here. If you have any problems with setting this up feel free to leave a comment. The next Version will include some Servo controlling to move the camera while capturing.

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