ST Excalibur: I am the Technical Lead on the ST Excalibur Project. The talented people at ST Excalibur are working together to create the most immersive, most beautiful and most modifiable Star Trek game of all time. No pressure.

WiiTUIO: Ever wanted to convert your Windows 7 computer into a big multi-touch surface for under £20? Now you can!

Project Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/wiituio/

Kinect Cars: Make your own terrain and interact with it in a virtual world! Augmented reality, but backwards! This used a Kinect to scan the surface of a table and convert what it found into digital terrain in a computer game. Check out some pictures!

This was comissioned for the Big Bang Science Fair which had 60,000 visitors in 3 days!

Ubi Displays Toolkit: The notion of projecting relevant, interactive digital content into the world around us is a fascinating idea with great potential. In the spirit of enabling people beyond the ubicomp community to engage with projector-based displays, I built a toolkit which lets you create multi-touch displays anywhere!

Interactive Tables and Surfaces Talk: This talk was commissioned by Lancaster University’s Knowledge Business Center (KBC) as the final piece in their Brunch Bytes business engagement series.

Foundations of Game Programming Talk: In this talk I speak as technical developer for ST Excalibur and discuss the basic principles and concepts you need to know to get started writing 3D computer games.

The video can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4iCiPO2EQ Sorry for the terrible audio quality!

Bits and bobs: I see myself as quite a practical person; knowing enough about a lot of fields to be dangerous. During the time I have been able to program, I have made many things. Here are a few highlights. Don't read into it too much!

• Firework Launching System, my reason for learning to program. It raised lines on a parallel port that triggered relays which lit lightbulbs to ignite fuses that set off rockets!
• X-Flight - 3D OpenGL Asteroids.
• Business game simulator - this would let users "play-out" different scenarios using provided data.
• 3D Plank Puzzle - another game using OpenGL where players have to cross a river by placing planks between stumps.
• Secure distributed system written using Java RMI and SSL.
• e-Campus Beaver - an AJAX web-based monitoring system for a network of distributed displays.
• PicASM serial VGA graphics card and driver.
• High performing, concurrent and low memory usage file system designed for a "virtual" embedded device.
• Framework for coarse gesture interaction with ambient public displays - a 3D public display gesture detection, transition and rendering platform which formed my 3^rd year research project dissertation.