Snow seems to be a good projection screen. On new year´s eve our friends from klubarbeit.net used their Tagtool suitcase to paint a ski slope in Fieberbrunn.

Recently Frances and Dima from the Czech Republic started their live drawing blog, where they document their Tagtool experiments - very interesting stuff, check it out!

Dominik Koller from Mittersill, Austria, might be the youngest Tagtool craftsman to date - he’s only thirteen. Here’s a picture of his neat Tagtool Mini, featuring a sturdy case for portability.

He also made a video of a session, projecting on a tile stove - check it out:

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