There’s a reason why at airports you hear “The moving walkway is ending…” repeating again and again. Walking on moving surfaces isn’t the most natural thing. It’s easy to trip and fall or just make a wrong step and be off balance. That’s exactly the situation developers working with HTML5 currently have to deal with. [...]

Recently Automata was tasked with building software for an iPad-based installation. It featured 24 iPads arranged in an 8 x 3 grid secured into a cabinet. Due to many factors, including a very short deadline, we quickly determined that HTML5 + a kiosk app was the way to go. The problem was the iPads were very firmly secured into the cabinet with no easy way of resetting them or pushing the home button. We needed a way to reload the app in case any issues popped up in the field.

Hi folks!

Lots of exciting changes at Automata Studios since our last update.

Automata Studios would like to welcome Skye Alcorn and Phil Weinstein to our team. Skye and Phil have been here a mere three days and they are already wowing us. The whole Automata family is looking forward to fantastic things this summer!

Automata Studios is proud to announce the launch of Star.me! We were asked by Ze Frank to work on the new “Thank it Forward Chain” feature, and we are super happy with the result. Tell your friends how awesome they are and give them stars, just like kindergarten. Because of Star.me, Automata Studios worked on [...]

Starting Monday, February 14th 2011 IBM’s Watson supercomputer will compete on the game show Jeopardy!. Automata Studios was proud to collaborate with Joshua Davis to create Watson’s on-screen avatar. Automata took Josh’s designs and programmed both the avatar and a collection of tools. We defined easily editable configuration files and a special supercomputer simulator to [...]