Professional work & projects

Updated July 2010

Mobile applications

Work of late has all been related to developing mobile applications.  I have been working with the iPhone and now iPad for over a year and  half.  I have also had a look at Google Android and Samsungs's Bada OS.  Recently, I have been doing research on HTML5/CSS3 on the iPhone family.

Processing, Arduino & DMX

I finally started tinkering with Arduino micro-controllers and using them with DMX lighting systems - very nifty.  I took some workshops with Openlabs in London.  Processing was used to communicate with the device over USB.

Interactive TV
  
 Interactive TV has been around about a decade now.  Not surprisingly different rules apply when developing such services.  As one is using a remote control as a interface device and working with bandwidth and memory constraints: it is similar to developing services on mobile phones. 
  
 Computer Games
  
 I enjoy playing computer games as well as creating them.  For me, it is not just about code but also aesthetics and game play. Working in a small team, there is a a great amount of work to and it requires organisation.   I had been working on contemporary art project - the project is on hold at the moment.  Meanwhile, I am exploring game creation using the open source Cocos2D project on the iPad.


Urban Visuals

UV are specialists when it comes to media presented in public spaces on a large scale using video.  We have been looking to take such projects to anther level and making them participatory. Over the past few years, I had working on prototypes and concepts with UV. Check out their blog.

Projects 2010

What I have been working on this year so far.

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Projects 2009

I have worked on a variety projects in 2009 and coincidentally they have all been Mac OS X & iPhone based.

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Interactive TV

While at the BBC, I started working in Interactive TV; at this time, this was the early days of services being designed and built at the BBC from 1997 to 2000.  For example, I worked on prototypes for the Digital Text service for digital satellite.   

After leaving the BBC, I worked for a year and a bit at a start-up called Codecell started by some extremely talented people that I had met while at the BBC.  And then I went to on to work at Sky Digtial for a few years.

My most recent work in Interactive TV has been for Chellomedia Interactive (now called UPC) to develop order ahead pay per view applications in 2006 & 2007.

In 2008, I worked at Miniweb.tv working on their portal on Sky Digital.  A new version of the portal v2.1 was launched in October.

Urban Visuals

Urban Visual is a Vancouver, Canada based company.  I have an ongoing relationship with them.  

Urban Visuals web-site

Web Article about UV

For more information on the project work, click on the section link.

Computer Games

Computer Games

Before working in interactive TV, I did work on one big game in Winsdor, U.K called "Queen, the Eye".  The game was published by Electronic Arts.

In 1996, I worked for almost year at Mediola in Cagliari, Italy on the island of Sardinia.  I worked on two titles while I was there: "Who's Fat Lou?" and "Woodspell".

I have since being doing some work in prototyping games and I have been working on a game as potential installation piece called "Laius' Folly".

My other game projects are in the interactive TV section.

Test Lab 2006


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Some example of concepts and projects that I was working on in 2006.