<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.2.2">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://mattandrews.info/feed/portfolio.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://mattandrews.info/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-04-07T20:15:54+00:00</updated><id>https://mattandrews.info/feed/portfolio.xml</id><title type="html">Matt Andrews | Portfolio</title><subtitle>Matt Andrews is an engineering manager based in Birmingham, UK. He also enjoys riding bikes, brewing craft beer, writing and making things.
</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Rhubarb Crumble</title><link href="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2017-02-01-rhubarb-crumble.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Rhubarb Crumble" /><published>2017-01-31T23:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2017-01-31T23:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/rhubarb-crumble</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2017-02-01-rhubarb-crumble.html"><![CDATA[An Electron-powered desktop app, this wraps a command line tool for generating mouth shapes from audio files and animates them using images of lips. This was for a BBC Digital Guerrillas project to output quick animated video without manual lipsyncing work.]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="portfolio" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[An Electron-powered desktop app, this wraps a command line tool for generating mouth shapes from audio files and animates them using images of lips. This was for a BBC Digital Guerrillas project to output quick animated video without manual lipsyncing work.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/rbc.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/rbc.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">YouTube Dubber</title><link href="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2016-12-01-youtube-dubber.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="YouTube Dubber" /><published>2016-11-30T23:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2016-11-30T23:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/youtube-dubber</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2016-12-01-youtube-dubber.html"><![CDATA[Another fun BBC Digital Guerrillas hack, this simple app lets you take the audio from one YouTube video and add it to the video from another. Hours of stupid, silly entertainment.]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="portfolio" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Another fun BBC Digital Guerrillas hack, this simple app lets you take the audio from one YouTube video and add it to the video from another. Hours of stupid, silly entertainment.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/ytd.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/ytd.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Snow Messages</title><link href="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2016-12-01-snow-messages.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Snow Messages" /><published>2016-11-30T23:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2016-11-30T23:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/snow-messages</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2016-12-01-snow-messages.html"><![CDATA[A silly hack for a Christmas house party, this was running on our TV while we had a houseful of friends, showing their festive messages as they added them to the list. I accept no responsibility for their messages' content.]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="portfolio" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A silly hack for a Christmas house party, this was running on our TV while we had a houseful of friends, showing their festive messages as they added them to the list. I accept no responsibility for their messages' content.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/sno.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/sno.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">SofaSync</title><link href="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2016-11-01-sofasync.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="SofaSync" /><published>2016-10-31T23:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2016-10-31T23:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/sofasync</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2016-11-01-sofasync.html"><![CDATA[This was sadly never launched, but it was a fully-featured realtime chat/video app, using BBC iPlayer programme data to provide a synchronised chat room where remote friends could watch a show together, pause/play/skip at the same time, and sent text/emoji reactions.]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="portfolio" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[This was sadly never launched, but it was a fully-featured realtime chat/video app, using BBC iPlayer programme data to provide a synchronised chat room where remote friends could watch a show together, pause/play/skip at the same time, and sent text/emoji reactions.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/ss.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/ss.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Gygax</title><link href="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2016-11-01-gygax.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Gygax" /><published>2016-10-31T23:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2016-10-31T23:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/gygax</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2016-11-01-gygax.html"><![CDATA[This is a work-in-progress webapp, built to aid my Dungeons & Dragons sessions with friends. While there are plenty of D&D apps out there, most are either too ugly or too advanced for my usage, so I built this one to solve a few things.]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="portfolio" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[This is a work-in-progress webapp, built to aid my Dungeons & Dragons sessions with friends. While there are plenty of D&D apps out there, most are either too ugly or too advanced for my usage, so I built this one to solve a few things.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/gyg.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/gyg.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Mates vs Monsters</title><link href="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2016-10-01-mates-vs-monsters.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Mates vs Monsters" /><published>2016-09-30T23:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2016-09-30T23:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/mates-vs-monsters</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2016-10-01-mates-vs-monsters.html"><![CDATA[A much-revised Twitter-based game, masterminded by my friend and colleague Joseph Bell and built to allow you to choose your friends (using Twitter's API), enter a dungeon with them and battle monsters and answer questions about them. A BBC Digital Guerrillas project.]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="portfolio" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A much-revised Twitter-based game, masterminded by my friend and colleague Joseph Bell and built to allow you to choose your friends (using Twitter's API), enter a dungeon with them and battle monsters and answer questions about them. A BBC Digital Guerrillas project.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/mvm.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/mvm.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">What is That?</title><link href="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2016-04-01-what-is-that.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="What is That?" /><published>2016-03-31T23:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2016-03-31T23:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/what-is-that</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2016-04-01-what-is-that.html"><![CDATA[A BBC Science project which showed a variety of microscope images where users had to guess what they were seeing. I built two interfaces: the rotating desktop one and a mobile carousel version, as well as an AngularJS-powered quiz.]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="portfolio" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A BBC Science project which showed a variety of microscope images where users had to guess what they were seeing. I built two interfaces: the rotating desktop one and a mobile carousel version, as well as an AngularJS-powered quiz.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/wit.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/wit.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Thirteen: Find the Girl</title><link href="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2016-02-28-thirteen-find-the-girl.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Thirteen: Find the Girl" /><published>2016-02-27T23:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2016-02-27T23:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/thirteen-find-the-girl</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2016-02-28-thirteen-find-the-girl.html"><![CDATA[Another BBC Digital Guerrillas project, this featured half a dozen websites including computer hacking games, in-browser image editors, blogs, laptop tracking websites and more – all to support BBC Three's well-received Thirteen show in 2016.]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="portfolio" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Another BBC Digital Guerrillas project, this featured half a dozen websites including computer hacking games, in-browser image editors, blogs, laptop tracking websites and more – all to support BBC Three's well-received Thirteen show in 2016.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/ftg.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/ftg.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Transfigure</title><link href="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2015-09-01-transfigure.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Transfigure" /><published>2015-08-31T23:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2015-08-31T23:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/transfigure</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2015-09-01-transfigure.html"><![CDATA[Transfigure was a BBC Digital Guerrillas project which took currency values from webpages (eg. £6.99, $120m, €843,422) and converted them to their equivalents in silly, topical values (eg. Freddo bars, footballer salaries, etc). I developed it from a browser extension into a webapp.]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="portfolio" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Transfigure was a BBC Digital Guerrillas project which took currency values from webpages (eg. £6.99, $120m, €843,422) and converted them to their equivalents in silly, topical values (eg. Freddo bars, footballer salaries, etc). I developed it from a browser extension into a webapp.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/tf.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/tf.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">NewsRush</title><link href="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2015-08-01-newsrush.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="NewsRush" /><published>2015-07-31T23:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2015-07-31T23:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/newsrush</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/2015-08-01-newsrush.html"><![CDATA[My first BBC Digital Guerrillas project, this takes news headlines from the BBC and outputs them at high speed, one word at a time. It also uses new HTML5 APIs to output generated sound, producing mildly-annoying music to accompany the headlines.]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="portfolio" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[My first BBC Digital Guerrillas project, this takes news headlines from the BBC and outputs them at high speed, one word at a time. It also uses new HTML5 APIs to output generated sound, producing mildly-annoying music to accompany the headlines.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/nr.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://mattandrews.info/portfolio/nr.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry></feed>