June 27, 2008
Best kit evar
It's the oscilloscope clock kit from dutchtronix. It's awesome. I'm going to bust out one of my old analog scopes to show it on, but here's a screen shot from me digital one.
Call me old school but there's something about a classic phosphor vector display that is just infinitely cooler than a LCD.
June 9, 2008
That's it!
Hot diggity, the new iPhone has a SCIENTIFIC CALCULATOR!
That's DOPE!
I'M LIKE SO GETTING ME ONE OF THOSE!
June 6, 2008
What a f***ing coincidence
In a snarky mcCoincidence (see last post), it turns out there's a band called the Fuck Buttons, and as you might guess from the name, they are pretty awesome.
Labels: music
June 1, 2008
You know me (down with CTP)
The irrepressible CTP has some new buttons out. See 'em all at snarkymcf***buttons.com.
Labels: my so-called sense of humor
May 27, 2008
The Robots are Coming
All of them. More precisely, this Saturday there is a rare confluence of space weather that brings together both Chassis and SWARM in the same space-time coordinates, namely the Laughing Squid Anniversary Party, conveniently located at Cellspace. If you're curious as to how exactly I've been wasting my time for the past year or so come on out and see the results. (Hope they work.)
Come get a drink from Chassis!
Come get a drink from Chassis!
Labels: shameless self-promotion
May 19, 2008
Chassis has a Posse Website
Chassis has a website.
Hosted by Laughing Squid, natürlich, who took some awesome photos of last week's Roboexotica USA. (We also got some press from Wired, yay).
Thanks to the irrepressible Magnus at SHIFZ and Skot Kuiper for the venue.
Hosted by Laughing Squid, natürlich, who took some awesome photos of last week's Roboexotica USA. (We also got some press from Wired, yay).
Thanks to the irrepressible Magnus at SHIFZ and Skot Kuiper for the venue.
May 7, 2008
SWARM at Coachella
Well, we threatened to do it, and by gum we did it.
We take preposterously complicated technology out to the f*cking desert and make it work. It's not even art any more, it's a giant wobbly inverted pyramid of fiendish stuff that can and will break disastrously in front of people who paid us money to do it. (Not that you care, but did you know each Orb has eight microcomputers that all have to talk to each other?) We are stupid. But we're badass enough that we've done it and will do it again.
Thanks to JDV for the pix
April 12, 2008
Chassis at the San Jose Museum of Art
So Chassis had his first paying gig at the SJMA last night. After some opening-night jitters (I can't believe we hooked up the keg tap backwards!) things went completely smoothly, and the beer ran out at precisely 9:00 PM when the reception ended. I'm continually surprised and amazed just how willing people are to treat a a vaguely-humanoid piece of junk like a person.
Thanks to Lucky Nora for the photos
Labels: shameless self-promotion
April 10, 2008
Video as promised
Here's some video of the LED lightwall I mentioned earlier.
Labels: I love living in the future, shameless self-promotion
April 9, 2008
Finally done
After more than a year, this custom 1440-LED installation I did for a private residence is finally up. What you see here is less than 1/5 of the whole thing (I couldn't get a shot of the big living room panel because of construction equipment in the way). It came out pretty great. Pictures show snaps of two different video programs ("reflections" and "sparkle"). (I'll get some video up as soon as I can figure out how to rotate it in a way that doesn't break the video sites.)
Source video by Sierra Helvey, installation assistance by Soo-Hwa Yuan, project conception and managment by Peter Noble and Mike Webb of Revolverdesign, architecture by Craig Steely, thanks to Luigi Argento and Philip Springer.
Labels: shameless self-promotion
Do YOU have ANY IDEA
Do YOU have ANY IDEA of the COSMIC FORCES that could be UNLEASHED if you TURN THAT DIAL???
(WTF? It's a custom Orb shell from SWARM, with a custom light pod and controller, for a private collector of exquisite taste.)
UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS.
Tip of the hubcap to Erik for pictures and considerable help
Labels: I love living in the future, shameless self-promotion
March 30, 2008
Skin care tips from Keith Richards
"No, I leave that up to other people."
-Keef, when asked about moisturizer.
Labels: my so-called sense of humor
March 26, 2008
Classy Chassis
Various folx remind me that blogs are for shameless self-promotion and that I should do more of that. Sorry, I forgot!A recent creation is Chassis the Drink-Serving Robot, done up bloggy-style by Simone (thanx S!). She even posted a video.
Chassis will be coming to the San Jose Museum of Art at a gala robot-themed opening April 11. (Oops: unfortunately this is a museum members-only affair. To see Chassis in action looks like someone else needs to throw a party.)
Labels: shameless self-promotion
Thhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssss is brilliannnnnnnnnt
It's Beethoven's Ninth, slowed down by a factor of about 25. That is one second of the original takes about 25 in this version, called 9 Beet Stretch.
It's very listenable ambient music, with some surprising movement. Some of the passing chords can be very dark, and stretched tympani could be the very soundtrack of Doom, but after a while it all returns to the dominant or subdominant.
What's cool is you can listen to it streaming 24/7. Perfect for hacking sessions.
It's very listenable ambient music, with some surprising movement. Some of the passing chords can be very dark, and stretched tympani could be the very soundtrack of Doom, but after a while it all returns to the dominant or subdominant.
What's cool is you can listen to it streaming 24/7. Perfect for hacking sessions.
Labels: music
March 24, 2008
Junglelicious
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