Nicolas Villar

Please note I have moved!

As of January 2008 I am working as a Post Doc researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge.

Click here for my MSRC Homepage

To be presented at this year's conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME '07).

Submitted paper (2.6Mb PDF) LINK.
Demo video (36Mb MOV) LINK.

Two VoodooIO-related papers were presented at the first international conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI '07), held at Baton Rouge, Louisiana:

A Malleable Control Structure for Softwired User Interfaces ( PDF)
VoodooFlash: Authoring Across Physical and Digital Form ( PDF )

More pictures of the event on Flickr.

Development video showing how an old hard drive can be used as controller for a digital DJ'ing application (more details on this soon). Step-by-step instructions on how to build your own will be posted on the Instructables site.

Quicktime Video [26Mb]

Dave Molyneaux's image gallery of the VoodooIO exhibit at SIGGRAPH '06 Emerging Technologies Exhibition. LINK.

The new VoodooIO website is conviniently located at http://www.voodooio.com !
Visit for latest videos and publications about the project.