VJ and music producer Simulcast from Brisbane, Australia:
I recently built my own tagtool (I’ve never soldered or put together anything electronic before!) and after lots of fiddling around, I have a cool working model. I used pots instead of sliders and after tweaking a few values inside nodekit I managed to get it working great. I’ve attached two pics, because of the knobs I think it should almost be a tagtool micro
An interesting new take on making the Tagtool a real performer’s instrument.
Made by Dave aka ibnutty, who will demonstrate the Tagtool at SIGGRAPH 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center:
For more information you can contact Dave.
23rd of July, Spratzener Kirchenweg, home of Lames, St.Pölten
Another beautiful Tagtool Mini, built by independent industrial designer Nautcases for Australian VJ’s Strictly and Lowdown.
On the 23th of July, starting at 14:00 there will be a DIY Workshop at the Parque Del Sol 08 Festival in St. Pölten, Austria. Sign up here to join and build your own Tagtool Mini. Materials cost about 60 Euros.
Here are some pictures (courtesy of Susan Sloan) from a presentation about the Tagtool Project to the Visual Research Group of the NCCA Bournemouth in England. Markus demonstrated the concept and showed some examples of past Tagtool applications.
A new “Tagtool Mini Suitcase” is born - produced by Michael Seidl.
Tagtool Mini by Rita Bürgler
From Andy Woods, who built himself a real beauty of a Tagtool Mini:
I am an artist living in East Tennessee, in the US. I just wanted to thank you for making the tagtool open source and enabling people like me to take art to new levels and places. Using your tutorials I was able to build a Tagtool of my own an I have attached a couple of photos of it.
Before this project I had ZERO electronics experience, but because of your inspiration I have learned a lot. Thank You!
Here are a few screenshots that were created during a workshop at Node08 in Frankfurt.
We set up a Tagtool that talked to another computer running VVVV over OSC.
The input from the Tagtool was then remixed to produce different brush esthetics. Mainly we created textured quads along the path of the lines that where scaled according to the pressure and the speed of the cursor.
These images show that the Tagtool as an interface can also be used with different visual software to create interesting effects. Also they point to a refinement of the brush esthetics that we would like to incorporate into the Nodekit Tagtool patch.
Here’s a video of the talk at Breakpoint 08 held by Richard, Markus and Matthias.
For this seminar Richard wrote up a guide how to program a custom node for the Nodekit.
Props go out to the Breakpoint crew for making their seminars available!
