I published my second Instructable last week, about how to build a simple backlight for PC monitors. Eyestrain can be a real problem when staring at a monitor all day, so in my office at home I've always shined a desklamp at the shades behind my monitor (or, during the day would open the shades!). [...]
The inspiration for this chair came from seeing one on a pier at Lake Tahoe. It’s big – seating two pretty comfortably – and tall, affording a nice view along with protection from cannonballs and wet dogs. After sitting in it I decided I had to build one for myself. This one is made from [...]
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Images and video created from video shot on my Canon 7D at the Fresno County Fair, October, 2010. Best viewed at 720p, full screen, with the sound cranked up. The video was processed with software I developed in C++. It takes [...]
Last weekend was the Makers Faire - a crazy two day confab of DIYers, Steampunks, rocketeers, and electro-mechanics. I was only able to attend for half day and was so overwhelmed that I didn't shoot much. Camera Obscura This is inside a beautiful camera obscura built by Chris de Monterey. The image is projected via [...]
I wrote my first full Flash game over the weekend. It's called Pong Pong and you can play it at www.anirama.com/pongpong. It's a simple game. You have two paddles, one that moves vertically along the left wall, and one that moves horizontally along the bottom wall. Balls are served from the upper right corner. Using [...]
I'm a Sudoku addict. There, I said it. In particular, I like to solve them in pen, and without writing down little numbers all over the place. I take pride in a clean and solved sudoku - just correct numbers in their squares. Over time, I developed a straightforward set of algorithms that I step [...]
(It's a video - click on it to play.) I was planning to shoot a video similar to this with sounds from my car, but it will be weeks before I'm home long enough and have the time to do it. Meanwhile I'm sitting in LA watching the Olympics on TV and wishing I could [...]
I just dug through Lightroom and pulled out some numbers that I thought were interesting about my last twelve months of photography. From 7/9/07 through 7/8/08 I shot over 22,000 photos (averaging about 57 a day). I didn't track my time (thank God), but a conservative estimate would be that I averaged at least a [...]