I wore my Owl head and cyberpunk jacket for the Halloween party at #supercon and a bit Saturday night too. Though I had to keep taking it off to speak to people. At some point I need to add a speaker like those used for some storm trooper helmets.

Best outfit at #supercon last night IMO - @securelyfitz - above the buttons are paper displays that change questions, and when you make a choice, it takes your picture and prints out the meme with you in it and the questions you were given.

At #burningman this year, I brought a small 1200 lumen projector that I could mount on my bike. Would it be feasible to do some quick on the fly projection mapping? It seems that yes, for somewhat small (about 6m x 3m max for reasonable brightness) and not very […]

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As we prepare for colorful explosions, I remembered I wanted to share colorful lasers + confetti I saw a few months ago at Gareth Emery's LSR/City show.

I have a singular RGB laser with ILDA interface + USB DAC that I've played with a little over a year ago. Someday I'd like to drive it with code.

@themariday I did try the "hardmode" setup, and the mapper did have more difficulty. It kept seeing reflections and deciding the pixel was somewhere inbetween the real LED and its reflection. The solution was stopping down the camera's shutter speed a lot. Then […]

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Inspired by @geekmomprojects 's friend's tree, I tried out @themariday 's mapping tool a few days ago.

This is a setup I put together for testing a tool I was working on years ago, and it managed a pretty good map (only ~4 notably misplaced pixels). Maybe I'll […]

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