A trip to Scotland with our band. I wanted to remember the whole night drinking, staying outside on deck .. and getting lost.
So i composed a little tune we could play with the band.
The arches need to be played with slides .. like slipping of the deck. Same in bars 1,3,5 and 7 and second part
Coline persuaded several people to stay up all night. We drank a lot, and in the morning we tried to get down to our cabin’s. But having to much to drink, apparently we took a wrong turn. We where in the living quarters of the cabin crew! A wrong elevator later .. the kitchen .. how did this happen. Friendly members of the crew showed us the way out.
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Nice icon set
Red Carpet
Vector graphic icons, one of the first distro’s which got it right
Post in 2002 due to screenshot .. dont know when i build it, some years before.
Using 24 pushbuttons and a IO expander, i could count the bottles in a crate. Probably used something like a hef4067 ??
Now i probably use a weight sensor or a beer cap counter using a webcam image.
Notification to email and shopping list printer.
Web Interface
Every bottle had to be placed back upside down so the opening of the bottle would not press down on the button. Later i used springs which could hold a empty bottle elevated above the button. The weight of a full bottle would press on the button.
Cobra from the Icecrew got his hands on some Led scrollers.
But they only had a windows program to controll these, so we started some reverseengineering.
First we had to make a serial cable. (Now we could easily use a logic analyser with protocol decoding)
Next i made a sniffer .. because we only had a windows program to control the display. So we used a windows machine to control the display by serial, and using a read line to a linux machine to stiff the serial traffic
After some tinkering .. we got this
So we wrote some software to control it using Linux
Somewhere start 2002, i made a tool for playing darts. Well … keeping score and history
I was multiuser, multigame with statistics and undo. You could click on the little dartboard what your have thrown on a real board. It just kept score and told you best finish options.
Screenshot below was a digitized picture, no way accurate. Versions later the board was realtime drawn with GDlib and pixelperfect. It even showed you previous throws.
At the end of the game it should give you the hotspots you have thrown.
It was a beautiful day in May, and a lot of people were outside enjoying themselves.
Monique was working in the garden, and i was sitting in the living room.
We heard some commotion and saw the smoke. Some people said that the Chinese restaurant in that neighbourhood (containing illegal fireworks) was burning.
We heard a big explosion and Monique was blown off her feet, and sat down in the garden.
I saw the large livingroom window bulging to the inside and moving outside again. (This had loosen the mortar around the window)
When seeing the now black smoke, we went inside, to the opposite site of our home, and turned on the news/checked websites.
We were lucky that there was a large factory between us and the blast (Polaroid factory)
Large pieces of cement where found 100m further than our house was.
Below some of my own media, for a better understanding of the destruction and aftermath of the disaster check the divers websites.
A scary time.
"If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing."