Hi, I'm Chris.
And I teach machines to do things. Also, I teach people how to teach machines at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Collected here are my course materials, research notes, and students' work.
Twoville
Twoville is a programming language for generating two-dimensional SVG images that can be fed into vinyl or laser cutters. It also supports an experimental animation.
FML
FML is a utility that generates a sculpture of one's First, Middle and Last initials. Find the C, R, and J in the sculpture above. Make your own!
Rainbox
Rainbox is a little puzzle game I wrote for my son's 8th birthday. A pixelated, rainbow-colored box has broken apart, and you must put it back together.
Tangle
Tangle is a tool I wrote to help my eight-year-old son think about multiplying through a spatial lens.
Student Gallery
Braden, Josh, and Nick made coOperation Breakout in a course that mashed together game development and physical computing. They designed their own controllers out of Arduinos and various electronic components. In the game, two players work through a cast of characters with complementary skills to solve a gauntlet of puzzles and free themselves from the tyranny of individualism.
Recent Posts
- Starring Matariki
- Triadic Chords in Deltaphone
- SCSI 2019: Computational Music
- Networking with Pure Data
- Timbre and Harmonics
- Changing Instruments
- Counting in Time
- Annotations in Twoville
- Playing Sound Files Repeatedly
- Music Mouse, Part VI
- Music Mouse, Part V
- Music Mouse, Part IV
- Music Mouse, Part III
- Music Mouse, Part II
- Music Mouse, Part I
- See more...
Madeup
Madeup is a programming language for making things up—literally. Programmers trace out shapes algorithmically and then turn them into solids that can be printed on a 3D printer.
Deltaphone
Deltaphone is a blocks-based programming language that extends the relative movement of turtle geometry into music. Composer-programmers express their tunes using intervals or chromatic or diatonic offsets.
Trux Falsy
Trux Falsy is a game for practicing boolean logic. You should play it. The source code is freely available. A lot of it was hastily written in Peru.
Unduo
Unduo is a two-player Snake game built by my sons at the keyboard and me by their side. But there's only one snake. Two heads are better than one, right?
Totally
Totally is a tool I wrote to help my five-year-old son think about adding through a spatial lens.
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