If you have any interest in physical computing, or playing with Flash outside the “box”, you definately need to check out the phy5ics blog over at http://phy5ics.com/. Recently I’ve been playing around with a method to perform visuals with the monome, a very simple but very cool 8 button by 8 button input device. Check out the video below, it’ll do it much more justice than I could ever hope to.

Anyways, after going through some of it’s documentation, I realized that it supported OSC, which if you don’t know, will save the world from the perils of MIDI (which actually ain’t that bad, but whatever). Now of course, a google search and a “FLASH OSC”, came up with this bad boy — a project called FLOSC which is a translator that can pipe the OSC information into flash. Unfortunately, it still was targetted at AVM1/AS2 — that’s when I found phy5ic’s blog. I’ll be playing around with this in the next couple weeks, and hopefully contribute a bit to this project he’s started ….

Reads:
Getting Started with AS3 and the Make Controller Part 1
Getting Started with AS3 and the Make Controller Part 2
Getting Started with AS3 and the Make Controller Part 3
Getting Started with AS3 and the Make Controller Part 4