From Marie-Noël Vanasse, an illustrator and live drawing performer from Montreal:
My brother (Alexandre Vanasse) and I, builted a complete computer and tagtool into a 5$ suitecase!
Here’s the infos :o)
I attached pictures of it too ;o)
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)
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:
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.
