Week 10: Sick again (what?!)

Yup, I have no immune system. I've developed a nasty ear infection, so kinda struggling with the basics this week. Will make up for it next week!!

Week 9: Something that might help REAL people

Have you seen the movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly?

If you haven't, it's about a man you is totally paralysed other than being able to blink one eye. So to communicate, a nurse counts through the alphabet and he blinks at the appropriate letter.

I thought, what a shit system. The poor guy wrote a book like this; using a simple digital system he could have written dozens more.

So, I am planning to make my own. I've been looking into a piece of software called RoboRealms, which is designed for robots to analyse environments. Shouldn't be to hard to tweak it to track eyes, ill keep you posted!

week 8: still sick

Probably suffering from SAD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder

Week 7: Germany

From Oktoberfest 2008

From BMW Museum

Just got back from Germany with a nasty cold, so I'm resting up for now. Couple pics of Oktoberfest and the amazing BMW museum.

Week 6: Oh god

My timelapse/motion control rig is becoming way to complicated/sucking up all my time/reducing my life span.
Here is the current design.
Lets say it's functional rather than attractive. Is this art? Well, it will have creative outcomes, it's a means to an end. I’ve been busily programming the controller, which is getting really boring, so I'm going to start construction next week. Anyway, I’m off to Oktoberfest tomorrow, so bugger it, I’m going to drink beer.

Week 5: Success!

Last night I finally got my motion control thingo working. Although this doesn’t look like much, this set up lets me move the motor in .2° precise steps. It would get even smaller if I added some gears. It’s surprisingly fast too, it is really moving in .2 increments in this video.

When my DV camera arrives, im going to whip up something similar to Michael Gondry’s Kyle video (if he had no money):




Basically, the motor will let my move my camera over a path exactly every iteration, so you can do really simple cloning.


There are tons of things you can do with mo-co, like rep-rap, it builds it self, first replicating machine ( I love this project):

http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome

So should be an interesting couple weeks playing around with this.

Week 4: Work in Progress (or how i'm a lazy ass who's trying to pass this off as a real post)

I've come up with a ton of idea, but I just havn't made any of them yet. I have been busily working on a time lapse rig, re-programming my wii-mote, and mocking up concepts for interactive clothing.

But yeah, for now, here's a picture of me in a 1970s yearbook.
www.yearbookyourself.com

Gold website, enjoy.