Nick Charbonneau

Hello!

My passion is building awesome interactive projects for the web. Sometimes this means creating front-end graphics and thinking hard about user interaction. Other times I get to flex my server-side muscles and have some fun within the gears of modern web applications.

No matter what piece of the project or language I work in, I love the challenge that comes with creating the next new thing.

www.PlugIntoFord.com

Plug Into Ford

  • HTML5 / CSS
  • jQuery

Extensive jQuery scripting was required to create the various user interactions on this project. HTML5 tags such as <video> were were used along with embedded elements to maximize browser comparability.

PlugIntoFord Detail
Media Cadaver Mobile Experiment

Media Cadaver

  • Android SDK
  • Java
  • Processing

Built in processing, Media Cadaver loads videos and audio from the user’s Android device and lets them experience video in a new way. Effects are applied randomly with parameters from the video files and user touch interactions.

Media Cadaver Detail
Msg.Dot.Gif Image Text Inserter

MsgDotGif

  • HTML5 / CSS3
  • jQuery
  • PHP5
  • REST

Ever wanted to send secret messages? I did too, so I wrote a heavily OOP focused web application to encode and decode whole novels hidden within .gif images.

This project has been temporarily taken offline for security reasons.

MSGDOTGIF Detail
SparkDraw Interactive Experiment

Spark Draw

  • Java
  • Processing
  • Web Cam Integration

Creating Spark Draw for the Northern Spark festival was a blast! Through the processing language, attendees of the event were able to use the light from their cell phones to interact and draw with the web cam enabled application.

The Hub Bike Coop Search Engine

The Hub Bike Coop Search Engine

  • XHTML / CSS
  • PHP5
  • Wordpress
  • MySQL

Building The Hub Bike Co-op’s custom search engine was a very difficult task. Product and website article search results are fetched from just one MySQL query to reduce database load. These results are then formatted and paginated for simple and intuitive navigation.

The Hub Bike Coop Search Engine Detail
Digi Trek Learning Game

Digi Trek

  • Flash AS3

I found many challenges as lead developer for this application. From designing the game’s framework, to orchestrating a system of asset delivery, to learning new skills in flash and team management. This project was full of personal firsts.

Digi Trek Detail
Nick Charbonneau - Photo Credit: Joanna Fox Photography

Nick Charbonneau

  • HTML5 / CSS3
  • Flash AS3
  • JavaScript
  • PHP5
  • MySQL
  • jQuery
  • Perch CMS
  • Processing
  • Wordpress

What are we going to build today? Let’s make it awesome!

Feel free to contact me at coolstuff@nickdid.it