Nick Roberts: Award-winning event engineer
Lead developer at OctoCue & event software/hardware development gun for hire.
Contract software development work
- OSCPoint: A free add-in for PowerPoint that adds OSC control to PowerPoint presentations.
- OctoCue: Professional, seamless remote slide control.
- Touchscreen interfaces, game show engines and button systems
- Interactive exhibits, including button panels, RFID tags, QR codes, card printers and proximity sensors
- Social media walls
- Flutter mobile app development
Live video engineering
- Official Barco Event Master Specialist (for Barco Encore3 and E2)
- Disguise media servers
- Show system integration and operation
- Large-scale LED wall control systems, including Brompton processing
- Mapped and blended projector control
- Live event camera and PPU control systems
- vMix show programmer and operator
Show reel
A small sample of my work - check out my Instagram feed for the most recent events: @nickrobertsgb
Recent projects
About half my work is live video engineering for conferences, concerts and exhibitions, and the rest is custom-built hardware and software solutions.
If you're reading this you'll probably already know what's involved in conference work, so I'll skip that bit. Here's some examples of the custom-built stuff:
Alpine F1 garage (motorsport)
Video and lighting control systems for the Alpine F1 garage, including race engineer integrations, and the most famous curfew timer in F1.
Virgin Media Portl (TV advert)
Using the Portl (now called Proto) hologram system to allow fans to play FIFA with their idols over the internet.
Air Suburbia (EE TV advert)
Using an OpenReach FTTP connection to send multiple video, data and audio feeds between an airplane, an airport and a house in Harrow.
Coolman's Universe NFT activation
Crypto activation event in NYC where NFT owners could see and interact with their custom character using RFID scanning. Biggest win: custom-built space invaders!
Nike Air Max Day
The latest in a series of brand activations for Nike Dubai. Users can build a custom audio track with associated real-time visuals, then publish and share it via QR code and a custom microsite service.
Equipment
This list changes a lot and I'm not very good at keeping the logos up-to-date.
Fun (free and/or open source) stuff I've done
- OSCPoint - an OSC API for Microsoft PowerPoint, with associated Bitfocus Companion module
- https://vmixapi.com - the unofficial vMix API documentation
- https://github.com/phuvf/wireless_artnet_led_controller - a WiFi enabled LED controller using an ESP32 controller.
- https://github.com/phuvf/ismyportfolioscrewed - a quick & dirty calcuator to help UK landlords with tax changes (from 2016, now obsolete)
Contact details
Have a project you think I might be able to help with? Drop me an email: nick@zinc.uk
I'm based in Worcester, UK, but operate worldwide.
Zinc Event Production Ltd. registered in England & Wales, registration number 5340798.
Registered office: 48, Sansome Place, Worcester WR1 1UA. VAT registration number 854927780.