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.

A new “Tagtool Mini Suitcase” is born - produced by Michael Seidl.

Tagtool Mini by Rita Bürgler

From Andy Woods, who built himself a real beauty of a Tagtool Mini:

I am an artist living in East Tennessee, in the US. I just wanted to thank you for making the tagtool open source and enabling people like me to take art to new levels and places. Using your tutorials I was able to build a Tagtool of my own an I have attached a couple of photos of it.
Before this project I had ZERO electronics experience, but because of your inspiration I have learned a lot. Thank You!

Here are a few screenshots that were created during a workshop at Node08 in Frankfurt.

We set up a Tagtool that talked to another computer running VVVV over OSC.

The input from the Tagtool was then remixed to produce different brush esthetics. Mainly we created textured quads along the path of the lines that where scaled according to the pressure and the speed of the cursor.

These images show that the Tagtool as an interface can also be used with different visual software to create interesting effects. Also they point to a refinement of the brush esthetics that we would like to incorporate into the Nodekit Tagtool patch.

Here’s a video of the talk at Breakpoint 08 held by Richard, Markus and Matthias.

For this seminar Richard wrote up a guide how to program a custom node for the Nodekit.

Props go out to the Breakpoint crew for making their seminars available!

We are happy to announce two upcoming Nodekit Events in Germany.

Breakpoint 2008, world’s biggest pure demoscene event. For the 6th time, up to 1000 creative participants from more than 30 nations are once again expected to gather in the beautiful town of Bingen am Rhein, Germany, from the 21st to the 24th of March 2008, enjoying 4 days of round-the-clock activities in arts, technology and international socializing.

Richard and Markus will give an introduction to the Nodekit, which is a node-based programming environment for interactive graphics that runs the Tagtool program. Richard, as the lead programmer, will explain the software architecture of the Nodekit and demonstrate how to program your own nodes. Markus, as the application designer, will talk about how the project evolved so far, the implications of offering the software under an Open Source licence and about the future roadmap of the project.

Saturday, 22. April 2008, 14:45
Seminar: Introducing the Nodekit - An Open-source Node-based Programming Environment for Interactive Graphics

NODE08 provides an event to the ever growing vvvv community, to get to know each other, to present, to exchange and share with a curious and interested audience. NODE08 is also part of the Luminale light art festival, which takes place at the same time in Frankfurt and will be supported by lighting art and lighting installations created by our participants.

The goal of the workshop is to communicate between vvvv and the Nodekit. We will send the data collected by drawing onto the Tagtool to vvvv to create parallel visual remixes.

Attention! Date has been changed to Thursday, 10th of April
UPDATE: The workshops take place on Wednesday, 9th of April
10am-1pm: Tagtool & Nodekit Workshop
2:30-5:30pm: Nodekit talks to VVVV over OSC Workshop

When Kate visited us to build herself a Tagtool Mini, we took pictures and wrote up a tutorial.

Enjoy, and send us pictures if you make one!

We’re pleased to announce a new version of the Tagtool software.

Previously we’ve been referring to it as the Tagtool Kit. We’ve decided to disassociate its name from the Tagtool, to emphasize that it is in fact a versatile toolkit for interactive graphics, rather than a specialized program. The Tagtool is just its most prominent application to date.

So let’s call it…

What’s new in Version 0.7:

• A new look
• Easier installation/removal
• New nodes
• Some major under-the-hood improvements

Here’s a guide to the Tagtool Controls in Version 0.7.

You can download Nodekit 0.7 and the sourcecode here.

For more details check the release notes!