Ok, I just found an article about a guy who turned a baseball bat into an electric violin.
Somebody needs to compose a somewhat simple song for the violin and it's got to be called peanut butter jelly.

Yeah, that was so beginning of the decade, but still, you know you snickered.

somewhere on the list of things that suck:
today is the solstice
this means, summer has barley begun and the days are only getting shorter.

This is everything I'm into right now.
How do I get people to let me do stuff like that?
And preferably get paid for it.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

lights on from thesystemis on Vimeo.

I suspect I would have done things a little differently. While it is neat, I question some of the artistic choices, but then, every designer thinks that.

parts pricing is a funny thing. I'm looking to buy a small microcontroller and a USB to serial adapter. The microcontroller is $4.82, the usb adapter is $4.50. I'm fine with the price because they're under $5, before shipping. But the scale seems a little odd. Thats kind of like spending $2,000 on a TV and then spending $1,800 on an HDMI cable

I may have mentioned it before, but I'm trying to build my own light board. You see, low end light boards cost hundreds of dollars, mid to high end boards start in the thousands. The little tiny (now defunct) theatre company I was working for couldn't hope to invest in one. I figure I should be able to assemble a finished product for under a ( Read more... )

And for all the rockstars out there

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/07/video-intel-we-are-rock-stars/

What do people use for photo sharing sites?

Flickr seems to be the most common, and that usually means its the best or the simplest.

I love it!

Sometimes I have the strangest, and most useful ideas around dawn. I have an idea for a kind of wireless mesh network to alert gps navigation units in cars. Just as series of repeaters with mobile transmitters that police and construction crews can use to alert the network that sections of road are closed, lanes are closed, or that speed limits ( Read more... )

I shouldn't get up and start watching french movies, it makes me want to move. It makes me regret the distance between my old theatre people and myself, the people who listened to interesting music, watched all kinds of movies, appreciated art, and read. The real artists. Don't get me wrong, I hang out with artists and musicians, but my ( Read more... )