This Tagtool Mini is my first electronics project. I messed up a bunch of stuff along the way but in the end, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I followed the instructables for the most part. I just tried to make mine as inviting and approachable as possible with the obnoxiously 80’s pink and the little symbols. I also liked having the top portion upside-down making it more like a shadow box or framed art piece.
Here are a few images sent to us by Sam Thongrong, a visual artist from Chicago. He built a very compact Tagtool suitcase, using not an Arduino, but a breadboard-compatible clone called Boarduino.
WACOM Graphire4 (4″x5″) Tablet.
Sliders with 60mm Length of Travel.
The pushbutton is Allen Bradley 800 series (from ebay)
The NodeKit Drawing version 0.7, running on a Micro ATX machine with Window XP, and the Xtasy Radeon 9550 AGP Graphics Card.
He had to adapt the Arduino code to work with the Boarduino - click here to download Sam’s code.
A Tagtool Suitcase built by Sam Thongrong of Chicago
The Breaduino, a breadboard-compatible Arduino clone
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
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.