Synth Eastwood
With apologies to Bob Moog…
A chop and paste photoshop I’ve submitted for this weekend’s ‘Synth Eastwood‘ exhibition.
Rock, Scissors, (Research) Paper
DKIT’s Department of Music & Creative Media recently held it’s 4th Annual Research Colloquium. Nine papers were presented by students and staff, ranging from the effects of social networking sites on peoples lives to the middle east conflict. I made a presentation on ‘Bionic Roshambo‘, my cyberglove controlled Rock, Scissors, Paper game. More about it at keyo.net/bionicroshambo.
Atari Punk Console, Breadboard Version
Here’s a short improvisation on an ‘Atari Punk Console‘ that I’ve built on a solderless breadboard.
Atari Punk Console Breadboard Performance (2007) from Kieran Nolan on Vimeo.
The APC name was coined by Kaustic Machines who based the circuit on a schematic by Forest Mims III. It has been built into many different forms as seen >> here <<. Mine needs a casing, will most likely be a mini-lunchbox!
Arduino Heat
I’ve been playing about with the Arduino the last few weeks. It hooks up through the computer’s usb port and can be used to take in signals from buttons, sliders, dials, sensors or whatever and can also control devices connected to it from the pc.
It can also act as a standalone device and can be programmed… so for instance you could have a microphone as an input device, have a lamp connected to the output and then program the chip so that the lamp switches on when you clap your hands.
The pdf book from www.arduino.cc provides a great introduction to how it works, including how to build your own ‘Virtual Etch-A-Sketch’. I’ve managed to make a heat sensor control an interactive piece built in macromedia director, so quite pleased with that!
Starting again
I’ve switched to WordPress, the old blog is >> here << … got to modify this template a bit further too…
hello
just a test…
Current TV
Current TV, “The TV Network created by the people who watch it”, allows members of the public to not only upload their videos to the web but also have them broadcast on digital tv… this is the way things are going… regular television is losing out to online video, so it's got to adapt and change… the BBC have recently made a deal with Youtube to broadcast their content online, while Sky News invites it's viewers to send in their news and views through mobile video and webcam footage… just like the way radio broadcasting has been enhanced with podcasts and accompanying web reading, television is been further augmented by the online world… it's all converging…
more info: Current TV Official Site Current TV Wikipedia entry
Max Headroom: Broadcast Hijacker
In 1987 a Chicago television station was taken over for several minutes by a guy in a Max Headroom mask – the video is on youtube (like everything)… really funny in a surreal and creepy way… more info on the incident here and here
Hack Attack
This site got hacked last week, for the second time.. I guess in some strange way its a kind of an honour, this site doesn't get a lot of traffic… but anyways the hackers in question left a html file and a text file on the site with a little 'we were here' type message. I typed part of it into Google and up comes a list of sites where their files havn't been seen/removed… including some Chinese Government sites… mad – link
Hak.5 – Hacker TV
Hak.5 is an Internet TV show all about hacking and modifying software and hardware. It's presented in a humorous and laidback way and is a great way to find out how the gadgets and apps that you use work, and then subvert them – Hak.5 in 60 seconds