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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
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12:04 am - junk jams
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| Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
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8:44 pm - GenMDM Go!
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| Saturday, January 5th, 2013
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1:42 am - RayBlaster!
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| Monday, December 3rd, 2012
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11:42 pm - RayBlaster!
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| Saturday, October 27th, 2012
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1:47 am - GAMBY: epic 3D shooter
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| Thursday, October 25th, 2012
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11:23 pm - gamby
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I finished soldering this, and it works! ZOMG
The "Gamby". I am seriously playing Tetris on this thing, and I can write games & stuff for it. This is the cutest, most adorable Arduino shield ever.
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| Saturday, October 20th, 2012
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1:33 am - oontz oontz + ratta tat ==
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| Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
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11:30 pm - it's a lamp
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| Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
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11:04 pm - more arduino fun
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Analog input + LED strip == Turn the knob to change the hue
Not too difficult :) I have a specific project in mind. COMING SOON.
current mood: shocked LOL GET IT
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| Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
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10:52 am
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| Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
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1:16 pm
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| Monday, August 27th, 2012
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11:51 am - zorch
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Electricity is dangerous!
I'm now the proud owner of a Maple Bacon. (It's akin to an Arduino, but contains a 72MHz ARM processor, if that means anything to ya.)
I plugged wires into it, and engineered an 8-bit synthesizer! (Using an R2R ladder DAC.) It played gritty sine waves, and syncing sawtooths! Fun!
Then I expanded the design, adding 4 more pins, creating a 12-bit synthesizer. Little did I realize that two of the pins are special, and provide direct access to the USB connection. I had no idea! Also, I learned that you can inadvertently short out your laptop motherboard with these pins.
So, the laptop froze, then behaved strangely, even after several power cycles. (Couldn't log in; mouse froze in the finder; Bluetooth couldn't be disabled; etc.) The internal fuses may have needed time to reset. Fortunately, the laptop seems OK now. (Dear gawd, I hope so.)
After some digging, I found this in the specs:
Pin D23 is the USB D+ line, and D24 is the USB D- line. To use them as GPIOs, your program will need to disable SerialUSB first. Be aware, however, that disabling SerialUSB means that the bootloader won’t work properly, and you’ll need to use Perpetual Bootloader Mode to make your next upload.
More like: "Be aware that you can f*@k your sh$t up if you use pins #23 and #24. These are the demon pins, whispering unholy voltages back through the wires, steering the motherboard towards madness."
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| Thursday, August 16th, 2012
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3:13 pm - LED shirt?
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The LED strips can be split into segments, and potentially sewn into clothing. Perhaps a grid of lights on a shirt? A rectangular grid is fine, but I want to create a more distinct shape, I dunno:
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And with a slight curvature, so the horizontal rows have slight downward arcs (like smiles)?
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12:41 am - YES
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Just wired up one of these, with a button:
I wrote a little program that shows 2 colored waves, which overlap to form a brighter color. When you press the button, a new palette is randomly selected :)
I AM SO FORKING HAPPY RIGHT NOW. So many crazy ideas argurgguuhhughhh.
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| Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
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11:46 am - lots of LEDs
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| Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
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5:00 pm - no moths yet
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Looks like Too Many Moths is not booked for the "PHREAK" show on Wednesday. But that's OK! I deserve to drink a beer & dance like a crazy monkey sometimes, too. :P
Subliminal message:
YOU SHOULD ALL SHOW UP AND DANCE WITH ME.
PHREAK may become a monthly event. It looks like they'll be rotating artists each month, which is awesome. Gawd bless Portland.
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| Tuesday, June 12th, 2012
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7:40 pm - programmatic drums
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Drums! They're tedious to program, and difficult to mix well.
It is 2012. Why am I still mucking around with brick-by-brick musical assembly? Can I write software to generate sweet drums, with some semblance of human expression? One hour later, a few timbres have emerged:
Fractal Drum Test by Too Many Moths
Each individual hit requires several minutes of processing time, but that's OK! I am rendering the best drums in the world, you see. I'm drawing on Wikipedia's list of fractals for algorithmic inspiration.
Approximate list of goals:
- Kick sounds
- Snare sounds
- "Shooping" hihats
- Weird drums from alien worlds
- Jam on predefined grooves, with some humanoid expression / subtle timing mutations. The machine will render an entire song whilst I slumber.
- Export each "instrument" as a separate audio layer, with click tracks to aid with mastering in a DAW
Seriously, why have I never tried drums + code before?? Music is suddenly interesting again...
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| Saturday, June 9th, 2012
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7:38 pm - kill the ice cream man
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| Friday, June 1st, 2012
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4:30 pm
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This is my worst. A second cousin of mine was a twin, but the second baby was born a still-born. Her parents were very open with her about this. This woman, however, was psychotic.
One day, on the bus, she was convinced that she saw her "twin". She told her entire family that they were wrong, that her brother was alive and well, but had obviously been adopted. She continued to see her "twin" on the bus and struck up conversation with him a few times. They ended up dating. That's right. A woman and who she thought was her dead twin began dating.
A few months later, they break up, only for her to discover that--oh no!-- she is pregnant with her "dead twin's" child. The pregnancy went on until she she went in to discover the sex of the baby (I honestly don't know how they didn't catch it sooner), but it turns out that this baby was......
Not real. She had had a false pregnancy. She had thought she was pregnant so hard that her body acted like she was pregnant. Pregnant with her dead twin's baby.
My family doesn't like to talk about it.
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| Saturday, May 26th, 2012
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2:58 pm - internet
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beatings
calm
