From Jayne Vidheecharoen out of Seattle (find out how to pronounce her name here):

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.

More images of the building process on Flickr.

She also designed a set of really nice icons for her Tagtool (available for download as an eps file)

Photos of a presentation about the Tagtool project by Das Gnu at the Guerilla Convention 08, organized by Arge Kultur Salzburg, Austria.

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

During this summer a Tagtool Suitcase was built by the Austrian crew klubarbeit.net. Check out their session at the Huberbräu in St. Johann in Tyrol:

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:

• Monday 8/11 2:15 - 3:15 pm
  Intro to Tagtool and its interface: Nodekit
• Tuesday 8/12 9:00 - 9:30 pm: Tagtool intro
  9:30 - 10:30 pm: Tagtool session
  
• Wednesday 8/13 6:00 - 6:30 pm: Tagtool intro
  6:30 - 8:00 pm: Tagtool session

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.