projects Archives - Ben Farrell

Interstitial VO Creation with Text to Speech and FFMPEG

user · May 5, 2015

Wasn’t I playing with virtual reality lately? Yes, but I got distracted. I’ll blog on that later, but for now – I’ve been looking to do cool things with my music discovery library called “the Shark Attack”. One of those cool things is a longstanding problem I’ve wanted to solve but never got around to …

Finally Picking a Focus – Sweatin’ to the Web

user · March 26, 2013

I jump around in technology like nobody’s business. One minute you’ll find me illustrating, another minute you’ll find me doing web apps, and the next you’ll find me doing games. And then I’ll bust out some PHP or Python back-end Last fall, I started playing around with the Kinect, and I was seriously in awe …

Hey Idiot, Check Out D3.js

user · November 27, 2012

Sorry, of course I don’t really mean you’re an idiot. I personally was always the type to turn down the “For Dummies” books when I was learning web technology years and years ago. My thinking was something along the lines that I am: Not a dummy Not a person that wants other people thinking I’m …

Be a Subject Expert (in something else)

user · January 12, 2011

Next week, my user interface user group, tri-me.org will be having our first meeting of the year. Rachel Nabors will be presenting on Wabi-Sabi in web design. Many times, a user group (ourselves included) will have a very technical presentation. How do you make the best MVC database application? How do you do memory management …

Sambaverse Alpha

user · August 18, 2010

Finally! I’m at the point where I have a demo-able application. Sambaverse is the first phase of my master plan for Blastanova. Quite some time ago, I got interested in creating music based Flash games. I created a prototype, and it worked pretty well – but it was severely lacking in one aspect. That aspect …

Do You Belieeeeve in Flash Autotuning

user · May 22, 2010

No, I didn’t accomplish the mythical Flash autotune in time for my “Audio Manipulation in Flash and Flex” presentation for NCDevCon this Sunday. But I don’t see why it’s not possible in the least I didn’t accomplish it, not because of Flash, but because of my lack of digital audio experience. About a month ago, …

theWB.com

user · February 18, 2009

Just writing a short post to tout theWB.com which went live today after a makeover. My new team and I at Digitalsmiths produced the video players and the clip search tool. After just cancelling cable, I can’t argue with even better video sites putting out great content. I’m always a fan of Buffy and Angel …

“PopFly” Reactive Music Game Prototype

user · November 28, 2008

It’s been a busy past month just getting a new job and a new car – I felt like I didn’t have time for anything. Well, it just the Friday after Thanksgiving today, and I feel like I have all the time in the world this coming weekend, so I’m starting to get excited about …

Bizkidz

user · November 28, 2008

Or should I say….BIZKIDZ.COM! The last site I worked on at 360KID finally went live (and out of beta even)! Its been a long time coming, I think we started a year and a couple months ago? I’ve since moved on and taken a new position at a video search company called Digitalsmiths here in …

Physics for Flash AS3

user · September 18, 2008

I’ve been playing a bunch with physics engines for the last few weeks. Physics engines basically serve to give your Flash Sprites some mass and body. Your physics world can update your graphics so they can bounce off each other, bounce off walls, fall to the forces of gravity, and succumb to other forces all …