A few weeks ago we had a webjam at Adobe Pacific and I built this AIR app in Flash for my demo. It is totally useless but it is a bit of fun.

It uses your microphone input to animate melissa. There are also a range of other animations triggered by keyboard commands.

Instructions:
1) Download, install and open the melissa.air app.
2) choose your mic input from the popup (best to mute your speakers)
3) hit ‘i’ for in to show Melissa
4) talk into the mic and adjust the level with the slider to get a good effect
5) hit ‘w’ for wink
6) hit ‘b’ or blink
7) hit ‘n’ for nose
8) hit ‘h’ for hand
9) hit ‘o’ for out to hide Melissa

If you would like the source files, they are here.

Have fun! (BTW I didn’t win the webjam!)

Well, busy setting up the blog and designing it. Rather than select a template from WordPress, I have decided to just customise the default, so out comes Dreamweaver and Fireworks and a little CSS and image editing.