I live at the intersection of user experience, design, and code. Passionately curious, never bored.
Hello there! You've reached the portfolio-ish site of Ben Leduc-Mills. This website captures some of my career from user research and service design, to interaction design, software engineering, rapid prototyping & digital fabrication, open source hardware, and of course, AI.
I live at the intersection of user experience, design, and code. Passionately curious, never bored.
A while back (July 2012), the Craft Technology Lab, including myself, presented work at the Denver Art Museum as part of Untitled #49: Ideate, one in a series of…
My colleagues John Schimmel (of DIYAbility and NYU’s ITP), Jaymes Dec (of Marymount School, formerly of GreenFab), and I are putting on a workshop as part of the…
After several years and many requests, I have finally put up the code for the Equipment Inventory System I wrote for Eyebeam back in 2007 or so. I…
This is a Pong application for the iPad that allows has the capability of switching between a normal, touch-based interaction and an Arduino, sensor based interaction. The…
Recently found this little article in PopSci mentioning the Autoponics project I worked on last semester at CU, as part of an Advanced Robotics Seminar. Neat! NASA Habitat…
My former colleagues at Eyebeam Art and Technology center in NYC have a Kickstarter campaign going, aimed at ‘Expanding Eyebeams Public Presence in Chelsea’ through the construction a…
After my new fancy business cards were done, I soon realized that I needed a business card holder to put them in. I’ve been using a rubber band…
I decided to make use of the laser cutter in the lab to design some new business cards – I love the way the wood veneer reacts when…
Autoponics is a project I worked on as part of the Advanced Robotics Seminar at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The rest of the team was Daniel Zukowski,…
Analog Pong is a simple demo I made at SparkFun to demonstrate how you might use different analog sensors to interface with Processing. Basically, you hook up any…
Check out this Forbes article on SparkFun and why it’s a pretty uniquely awesome place to work. These are all things that SparkFun practices and preaches. I think…
Hi internet! So a little while back I posted an instructable on the UCube – a tangible interface for 3d modeling and design that I’m working on. As…
I went to the first two Open Hardware Summit’s – not absolutely sure I’ll be there this year, but it wouldn’t be for the lack of quality of…
Very excited about this project from Jay Silver. I met Jay a few summers ago at a mini-conference in Boulder, struck me as one of the good guys.…
I’m going to the Eyeo festival at the beginning of next month with some of the SparkFun crew. Very excited to meet a few of the creative coders…
A little while ago I was asked whether it would be possible to control hardware from a phone with the IOIO board from code written in Processing’s Android…
Since I’ve been asked to teach a course on Processing at SparkFun Electronics using the Danger Shield, I thought I should whip up something extra to show them…
NOTE – this code is for Processing, but was written in Eclipse with the help of the wonderful Proclipsing plugin, so you may need to make some adjustments…
This is an updated video showing some of the latest work on the UCube (mostly software-related). Production value is a little higher than last time, thanks to Final…
The Celebrity Twitter Generator (CTG) collects tweets from 30 different celebrities, and creates a language model out of each one, thus allowing a front-end GUI to dynamically create…
The ioCane is a mobility aid for blind cane users that incorporates the use of ultrasonic sensors and computer vision algorithms with the Android mobile operating system, to…
Holy smokes. It’s been far too long. I’m finally done with finals so I have a teeny amount of time to update the website with all the stuff…
Having Been There was a collaboration with artist Abby Bennett, completed in Fall in 2011. A custom-built bench was outfitted with a circuit designed to count the number…
I’ve added a few newer projets to the website, ModelHome v2 (w/ Nick O’Brien) and SocialHealth (w/ Sears Merritt). I also have a few pieces of good news:…
SocialHealth, created with Sears Merritt, is a web and mobile app that tries to answer the question: “Is there a bug going around?”. We created the Android application…
ModelHome version 2 is an interactive art piece in collaboration with Nick O’Brien. I programmed Nick’s Kinect to use user hand gestures to warp/distort/rotate/extrude/change the texture of an…
Significant code upgrade in UCube v08 – I switched graphics libraries from P3D to OpenGL, and — more importantly — stabilized the .stl file export by switching to…
The UCube (v.1.0) is the first attempt at producing a tangible input device that allows non-experts to model and create their own three-dimensional objects. By placing towers around…
In case there is anyone interested in using a robust convex hull algorithm in Processing, here’s a link to a library I made, a slightly modified version of…
Below is some code I wrote up to make fun shapes to laser etch. It uses an new version of the convex hull library I’ve been writing called…
This is less of a ‘project’ and more of a collection. In order to make my apartment in Boulder a little less empty, I undertook to make some…
Finally got together a (semi) decent video for the UCube. Comments and feedback are most welcome.