Haven’t been too active around here lately due to a major on going project at work lately as well as the fact that my wife and I are in the slow process of moving homes. Really, the only free time it seems I have these days is during the lunch hour. So, over the past two days, I came up with this fun little toy during lunches[...]
I’m not sure how I managed to miss this, but I just happened to run across a ‘new’ (well, newish), albeit still unofficial, offering of Google today: text-to-speech. You can see what few details there are on this Techcrunch post. Basically, it just boils down to this though – you send your phrase to be [...]
Custom collision detection/handling in QuickBox2D [...]
Included in the Flex 4.0 SDK and the, just released, Flash Professional CS5 lies a new hidden little gem of a class: flashx.undo.UndoManager (although the Flex 4.0 SDK’s been out for awhile, I have to admit I didn’t even notice this until I installed Flash CS5 and started poking around the documentation looking for new [...]
In a previous post, “Digging into the Microphone in Flash Player 10.1″, reader David Law asked in the comments how it would be possible to save .wav files to the server. I wasn’t sure right offhand, but thought I’d spend my lunch hour yesterday looking into it. Well, after reading this quick tutorial on Adobe [...]
The other day I got the notion in my head that I wanted to draw some bezier curves in an animated fashion. I’m sure this has been done a million times before, but sometimes reinventing the wheel can be a good learning experience [...]
Just a quick little thing I got an idea for (i.e. pretty much ripped off) while browsing Processing examples.
Just a little bit of quick Friday fun with webcam and bitmapata…
Finally got the chance to play around with the new JiglibFlash height map terrain, today, and have to say I am very impressed [...]
I know, I know. Recursive trees are a thing that have been done to death by – well – pretty much everyone. I just picked up a nice book on Processing the other day though and one of the first examples it gives is a nice recursive tree. In order to better understand the java/processing [...]
One of the big (well, maybe it wasn’t all that big, but it was interesting) announcements of the 10.1 Flash Player was its ability to access detailed sound data from the microphone in the same way you can access mp3 data now. Until now, microphone access has been limited to volume. With the 10.1 player [...]
Seems all the cool Flash Platform developers have been trying their hand at Unity these days, so I had to jump in and find out for myself what all the buzz was about.
Just playing around with an idea for a game timer and thought I’d share the results for anyone who might need something similar. Basically, this is just an ‘odometer’ style scrolling number thing that counts down from a specified number of seconds to 0. It only allows 2 digits, meaning you can only count down [...]
Been playing around a quite a bit with QuickBox2D lately (check out my last post for one example), and have been loving it. One of the coolest features I’ve found so far is being able to easily skin QuickObjects by just specifying a DisplayObject class as the skin property of the QuickObject’s params object. The one [...]
A little year end 2D physics fun. Just allow web cam access and use your arrow keys to balance heads on a platter. Kinda like being King Herod without all the mess.
My wife mentioned something about Spirographs yesterday, so I thought “hey – why not make one in actionscript”. Two seconds of googling found the formulas I was looking for (as well as a nifty java example), and about 10 minutes of coding had something up and running in Flash. Play around with the sliders and [...]
