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I decided that my anamatron needed teeth. So I got some plasticine and decided to see how non toxic it really was. Then I filled the empty space with air dry clay.

Teeth

Teeth

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For the workshop tomorrow.

“Breadboard your own Sanguino” kits.

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Breadboard Sanguino Programmer

This programmer is based on the AvrOpendous avr910 protrammer used to load bootloaders onto 30 644Ps.

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The software project I am working on are turning out to be 3-4 day projects so I will have to backfill. In the mean time I made this frame for an anamatronic head.

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Using the code from friday the 13th I added a little animetronics to the apple developers speach synthesys demo code

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Today I made myself go out and enjoy someone else’s work with my product the DorkBoard. One of my inductees Hans Lindauer put together a set  of Dorkboard based midi light controllers for a local band called Fleshtone. The community and I have been helping Hans with this for a while and it was great to go see it in action.

The Business End

Hans’s Dorkboard Carrier

Fleshtone with midi controlled lighting

Not exactly some”thing” I did today (mostly following up on the code from yesterday) But rather something I have been doing most days for a while now.

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I spent the day studying the code from the “USB Missile Launcher NZ Source Package” and then going back and rereading the Usb Device Interface Guide from apple. By days end I was able to talk directly from my cocoa application via control messages to the usb device.

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I have been feeling very under the weather since monday so I am backlogged on my posting. This is the finished part of what I presented to the cocoaheads meeting on embedding quartz compositions into cocoa apps. The bearing in the lower left hand corner is from Cocoa and renedered in Quartz.

parameter passed from cocoa rendered in quartz

Its a bigger deal than it should be.

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So I probably now have to do two more things. But this was worth the 3 days it took. Its just beautiful.

Pinkfish at LightBar

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