2.5 Inch Hard Drive Macro HD Video from Brian Stuckey on Vimeo.
An exposed hard drive in operation. See more here:
Hard Drive In Use Video
Sadly, there is no sound, but the video is amazing. Check out Brian’s other videos on Vimeo or at his website ineedcaffeine.com.
This weekend I hosted a post-Halloween kit building party at MightyOhm HQ.
Nine close friends built Conway’s Game of Life kits from Adafruit Industries. This is my favorite kit for these kinds of workshops because it’s easy for beginners to complete in about 2 hours, and when everyone is done, you can wire all of the kits together to create one large cellular automata display. The last time I helped people build this kit was at a Make:SF workshop at the TechShop in Menlo Park.
Here’s a timelapse video of the afternoon, shot with a Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro
The capture interval was 5 seconds. I used Quicktime Pro to stitch the images together at 15fps and iMovie to add titles and music (Turbo Outrun by FRP from remix.kwed.org.)
I wore my Halloween costume for most of the afternoon. What am I? Most people on the streets of San Francisco had no idea…
Safety first!
Stuart was the first to finish his kit:
Soldering the kits together to form the matrix:
Nine happy kit-builders with the 3×3 matrix they created with their finished kits:
And lastly, a video of the 3×3 matrix in action:
Three people had little to no soldering experience at the beginning of the afternoon. Everyone who came went home with a working kit. Success!
This week I finally got a working copy of the video of my talk from NOTACON 6 about hacking the Asus WL-520gU wireless router. You can either watch the embedded video above or follow the link below to Vimeo. If you don’t like either option, you can also download the m4v source file from here (thanks Vimeo!).
Special thanks to Media Archives for recording my talk!
NOTACON 6 – Hacking the Asus WL-520gU Wireless Router from MightyOhm on Vimeo.
Steve Chamberlin created an 8-bit computer from discrete logic and called his project the Big Mess o’ Wires.
The BMOW runs at 2MHz and has 512K RAM and 16K ROM. It is constructed with primarily 7400 series logic and over 1048 wirewrap connections.
The feature list is very impressive:
Here’s a video of a music test from his site:
I am completely blown away by this project. Has someone invited Steve to the Maker Faire?? I want to see this thing in person!
Check out his site and prepare to spend at least an hour looking at all of his plans and construction photos.
Totally amazing.
Having had some experience generating RGB video signals with the PIC, I have a deep appreciation for the work these guys did in not only generating composite video with an Arduino, but also making a Pong game. The daily duino (need to bookmark that one) has a simpler example based on the same code.
