Month: April 2009
Twitter Updates for 2009-04-18
- Leaving for Roller Derby soon! Salty Dolls vs. Mile High Club! #
Twitter Updates for 2009-04-16
- mmmm chocolate donut! yummmm. Not a healthy start to the day, but tasty. 🙂 #
- @codem Any good in a Novell site? and what are you paying? #
- Went food shopping for 1st time in a month. I hate giving the supermarkets all that money but the cats were hungry! #
- This sucks.. Frito-Lay are sueing a Derby girl over her derby name! http://tinyurl.com/cm24pk #
- @codem What I meant was, is the software any good for a Novell site, all our servers are Novell. #
- Night everyone, had enough editing for one night and need some sleep. #
- oops, late night = slept in. #
Twitter Updates for 2009-04-15
- Just had yummy lunch at Dumpling King. So good living/working in Adelaide, cheap, great food just a short walk away. #
- @thescooterscoop Brilliant idea for a gym! Smash cars, build things, break rocks. Very therapeutic! #
- Cook & Chef 2nite ABC1 @ 6:30 doing yum Viet. Beef Noodle Soup. Recipe also here: http://tinyurl.com/dhgy9t #
- Was going to cancel my 3 wireless broadband, but they offered 3 months at $10/month… guess it will be handy for emergencies. #
- @ohindiegirl I’ve wanted one of those for a long time! #
- I love the fact that #newinventors , an Australia TV show is top trending topic right now. #
- Love #spicksnspecks too! #
- Cool to see Suggs on #spicksnspecks. Of course Madness are my all time fav band.As anyone who knew me from pop would know 🙂 #
- @sueissilly SMH Sydney Morning Herald ??? #
- ohhh shit, forgot the washing again.. it’s been in machine 3 days already and been washed twice! #
- So THAT’S what all the fuss about Susan Boyle is about! yep… that’s one hell of a voice! #
- Finished editing another act from Fringe show, only 3 more to do and the video will be finished. #
- NIght all… going to get an early one #
- Hungry, and somebody mentioned choc donuts. dammit. #
Twitter Updates for 2009-04-15
- Just had yummy lunch at Dumpling King. So good living/working in Adelaide, cheap, great food just a short walk away. #
- @thescooterscoop Brilliant idea for a gym! Smash cars, build things, break rocks. Very therapeutic! #
- Cook & Chef 2nite ABC1 @ 6:30 doing yum Viet. Beef Noodle Soup. Recipe also here: http://tinyurl.com/dhgy9t #
- Was going to cancel my 3 wireless broadband, but they offered 3 months at $10/month… guess it will be handy for emergencies. #
- @ohindiegirl I’ve wanted one of those for a long time! #
- I love the fact that #newinventors , an Australia TV show is top trending topic right now. #
- Love #spicksnspecks too! #
- Cool to see Suggs on #spicksnspecks. Of course Madness are my all time fav band.As anyone who knew me from pop would know 🙂 #
- @sueissilly SMH Sydney Morning Herald ??? #
- ohhh shit, forgot the washing again.. it’s been in machine 3 days already and been washed twice! #
- So THAT’S what all the fuss about Susan Boyle is about! yep… that’s one hell of a voice! #
- Finished editing another act from Fringe show, only 3 more to do and the video will be finished. #
- NIght all… going to get an early one #
- Hungry, and somebody mentioned choc donuts. dammit. #
Twitter Updates for 2009-04-14
- Checking out #BumpTop again. Twitter now functional #
- Anyone tried this little web game? http://is.gd/sicm #
- Everyone got tickets for Roller Derby this weekend? http://tinyurl.com/dlemt2 #
- @Rove1974 and you’re twittering this from the mens room??? Hope that’s not a camera phone. #
- I think I’m going to climb on my roof tonight, it IS my own house after all dammit! #
- So… do I climb my roof now I’m home…. hmmmm? #
- http://twitpic.com/3ashr – View from the roof #
- http://twitpic.com/3ashr – hmmmm, weird washed out look from my phone 🙁 #
- awww I lost a follower …. :p #
- Hope I remember to eat tonight, back onto the editing box for another fun filled evening. #
- I am without doubt a master of procrastination. Instead of editing tonight, i picked up a novel. I have now finished it! (the novel) #
- Disappointed new Red Dwarf, seems to miss the mark. Timing is out or something, but no laughing out loud like the orig inspired. #
- #RedDwarf when imagination fails, plagiarise. #
- up. late. #
Twitter Updates for 2009-04-13
Multi Touch Table Project – Part 1
With all the attention at the moment on Multi Touch displays and interactive surfaces, I have decided to have a go at building my own. I’m hoping to be able to keep build costs down as I have a number of the neccessary components aleady.
Stuff I have:
- Projector (Toshiba DLP)
- Front Surfaced Mirror (salvaged from rear projection TV)
- Spare PC – I seem to have a few of these
- Variety of display surfaces to experiment with including plastic tablecloth material, translucent papers, translucent acrylic
- Webcams (a few to choose from)
- IR illuminator (in case I decide to take the simpler direct illumination approach)
Shopping List
- MDF (Hopefully if I plan it all carefully I can make a qute stylish cabinet that will be at home in my lounge)
- 10mm Acrylic (for refractive layer)
- 2mm acrylic (for top protective layer)
- Silicon
- IR LEDs (individual or strips)
First stage will be to build a cabinet and position projector and miror. A quick mock up showed the the projector should be perfect if I mount it near the top of the cabinet, facing down at an angle, and the reflect the image back to the top. I’ll need to do more precise measurements but I’m looking at a screen at least 24″x16″ up to 30″x20″
I’ll mock up the cabinet and use some scrap acrylic I have to test the display.
I don’t have alot of time to devote to this, so updates and progress will probably be slow, but I’ll make sure photos and video of the project are included here.
Stay tuned.
Twitter Updates for 2009-04-12
- Been driving through hills all day, lovely day. Settling down 4 quiet night at TC’s #
Twitter Updates for 2009-04-11
- Insistent cat finally got me up. Choc milk for breakfast, wishing I had hot cross buns. #