Haven’t really had a whole lot of time to keep this updated. I’ll try to be better. I know I say this about every three months. So if this is the last post for another couple months, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
For studio I’ve been building large (17″ x 31″) backlit LED panels for a studio project. I used PCBs and parts from an 8×8 kit from ModernDevice.com and sort of exploded it to turn it from a smallish 3.2″x3.2″ square to something a bit more human-scale. I built a total of four of these assemblies and they’re all controlled by a newer model Arduino which controls all the boards. Each board has embedded into it pressure sensors that register when and where the board is pressed. The sensor mechanism is a little clunky right now, but I’m working to really finesse the detailing so it works better in the future.
I don’t often take the time to post something about a piece of code I figured out or things more technical, but I frequently rely on other’s blogs, websites, tutorials for random pieces of whatever puzzle I’m working on.
Anyway, the other week I was charged with putting up a slideshow using images from a specific flickr feed. The Google AJAX Feed API is perfect for this. No flash, no plugins.
The problem is in the gfslideshow.js file they provide you will only display square thumbnails of your photos, and if you scale them up, they become hopelessly pixelated. It took me a while, but the solution is simple. Open gfslideshow.js in a text editor and go down to line 48 then simply replace “thumbnail” with “content.” (or download this one) Also, be sure only to use the RSS2 feed from flickr as the Atom feed will not work with this.
That’s it! your slideshow should now show larger images.
Animated lines with endpoints that are both attracted to a cursor (invisible in the video) and repelled by one another. Left alone, an equilibrium should emerge.
the applet is posted below, however I encountered some difficulties with different versions of java (64 vs. 32 bits).
Surprisingly, to me anyway, one of my most popular and most trafficked photos on flickr is this party invitation that Nick and I made for a house party we threw. Most of the hits come in through either a google or yahoo image search for “Debutante Invitation,” or “Debutante Ball Invitation.” I guess it just kind of weirds me out that people somewhere are having debutante balls. Or maybe I’m just jealous.
