After spending too much time waiting for effects to render on my new AddOhms Tutorialcast, I decided it was time to upgrade computers. When I went to capture a quick EAGLE video on my new MacBook Pro with Retina screen, I realized a problem with the Mac’s auto graphics chip switch. Quicktime recorded only a green Screen.
BoltDepot.com sells a huge variety of fasteners which can be useful in hardware projects. One of the resources they provide is a Illustrated Guide to Fasteners. This is a great way to find the name of the screw or bolt you need to hold your hardware projects together. A printed copy is going into my toolbox.
Editing video has been something I enjoyed doing since High School. There I used my first tape-based NLE video system to make a Jeopardy episode where I played both a contestant and the host. In the skit I got into an argument with myself. Of course that was long before tools like Final Cut, After Effects, or even digital video cameras existed. Now anyone can do cheap effects for fun.
Speaking of cheap effects, using a little bit of Final Cut Pro X magic and a piece of green paper, I was able to achieve this effect:
Why am I working on this? Stay tuned… (you can probably guess where that’s going.)
The web site Data Pointed is run by Stephen Von Worley who is an artist and scientist specializing in data visualization research. He has created a Factor Conga which he describes as
a promenade of primes, composites, and their constituents, arranged with an aesthetically-tuned variation of Yorgey’s rules, one per second.
Check out the Animated Factorized Visualization, which appears to be all done with javascript.
There’s a Kickstarter project that Andrew Plumb (@clothbot) backed and caught my attention. It is a wrist-band watched based on an e-ink display. The battery cell looks like it can provide about a month worth of charge. A very unique looking watch and for an (apparently) limited time, there is a $100 reward level. As Andrew said, it might be worth it to just take the watch apart!
