Notices by James Brown (ancientjames@mastodon.social)

I plugged this in for a soak test a week ago and forgot about it, so I guess it's soaked.

The UI is randomly generated, and I love what it came up with here.

I have Kiwix and an offline copy of wikipedia on my phone, and my local Gen Z was so surprised and excited by the concept that I thought we should have a dedicated thing for it. Cheap e-reader plus 128GB SD card plus no wifi.

Construction video for this display… https://youtu.be/pcAEqbYwixU

I tried the thumbnail testing feature on Youtube for the first time, which was fun. Upload 3 different images, and it randomly applies them and shows you which one was the most engaging. This was the winner.

(I didn't include one with my surprised face and an overlaid arrow pointing at something)

Everyone needs to build one of these displays so I can spend my time writing games for it.

Meme crustacean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydk3BhlUWYE I've been working more on capturing footage. Hand held camera movement is still a mess, but putting the content into rotisserie mode helps sell the 3D with a static camera.

Yet another round of finding new places to hang counterweights, and I’ve hit 900rpm - 30fps. Amazing to scroll back to the start of this thread and see me wonder if I could get some sort of rudimentary depth effect going.

I built a contraption for my camera

You look like a good Joe

What this thing needed was another source of barely recognisable low res flickery points of light.

There’s now an accelerometer in the base, synced to the rotation of the screen. I’m hoping this will help me get it balanced better. I don’t entirely understand the shape it’s producing, but the line is pointing in roughly the direction I think it should be pointing.

New dome!
There are many advantages to moving to smaller panels in the new design (momentum etc), but the price drop going to a 300mm dome from 400mm would be justification enough.

So many complaints about the framerate on that last video, so I decided to upload one with a shorter exposure and more flicker. But I still ended up keeping it below 30 fps, so I suspect the complaints will be about both framerate and flicker. Just have to hope the algorithm doesn’t go so large on this one. https://youtu.be/gBfclb9hXCI

In motion https://youtu.be/na7pvihXhYs

Easier to see the 3D when it's only the camera that's moving.

Now thinking I should have filmed the tool I made to press all the clips on this IEC socket so I could get it out of the housing in order to film the satisfying click it makes when it goes in.

Taking it all apart so I can film myself making it.

25 fps. That's an actual frame rate.

Enbubbled.