My friend Pedro did a great project. He did a massive data collection from the library at Chelsea College of art and design. Pedro’s output was print in form of books but as we talked about it afterwards we found that it had some cool potential to go digital as well, and since he saved the data in Excel it was quick for me to make XML and use it in Flash. I was showing this case in LFPUG as an example of scrolling using a IR proximity sensor but here you have a simple version for the browser. In this case a click on a book will do an image search on Google but it’s not hard to imagine that this could load data from somewhere else instead. So if you should know of a good web service for art history please let me know with a comment here

A lot happened since I did the presentation ‘Make things physical’ in the London Flash Platform User Group
FLOSC is no longer needed for communication between the Make Controller Kit and Flash and we can now use AS3. You can read more about this good news from Liam at MakingThings in this post
I recently got a chance to test this new setup, and it works a treat!!! For that reason I choose not to post any of my presentation files –no need to share old source code when something better is now out there. Well the purpose of my presentation was not to show-off or teach but to inspire people with some simple physical interactive Flash pieces, and I was pleased that people seamed to like it. You can see the presentation in a low-res video here