SANDBOX

A space for small experiments, tools I’m trying, and half-baked ideas. Nothing here is fully finished — just steps in the creative process.

Where ideas begin.

In progress, on purpose.

Tinkering, testing, thinking.

Documenting the messy middle.

TouchDesigner + Micro-controller + Electronice + DMX

Just trying out an idea—making an interactive game where the player mixes RGB colors to match a color on screen. There are five circles in different colors. If the colors match, the circle kind of "explodes" or reacts visually, just to give some fun feedback. I also hooked up a DMX light to act as ambient lighting.

I didn’t want everything to be on screen, so I built a physical interface using buttons, knobs, and RGB LEDs covered with ping pong balls— simple but looks pretty nice.(Ping pang balls are such as great diffuser!) The same color also gets sent to the DMX fixture, so the light in the sapce change along with it.

The goal was just to get myself into the workflow of using different tools together and feel more comfortable switching between them. I didn’t finish the full game yet, but I got some fun surprises and picked up some good energy along the way!

#2025 Aug

Intergrating Arduino and Electronice to TD

Hand Tracking LED

TouchDesigner + Kinect + LED Strip

I’ve been wanting to try TouchDesigner for a while — This is one of my more complete experiment so far. I used it to convert hand data from Kinect into the number of LEDs to light up. It was fun to watch the LEDs respond — simple, playful, and kind of mesmerizing.

#2025 May

LED Strip with Art-Net DMX

TouchDesigner + ESP32 + LED Strip

My very first test with TouchDesigner — not a full project, just a small experiment.

I was trying to use an ESP32’s Wi-Fi capability to receive DMX data from TD over ArtNet, controlling the color of individual LEDs on a strip. Still rough, but it was exciting to see the setup respond to networked input.

#2025 Apr