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the software

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

heres the status quo of the software:

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what it does: it repeatedly loads the flickr rss feed, downlaods al photos, displays them in a stream (top part).

if a photo is tagged with significant tags, it displays it in large size, and decomposes it into particles of red, green and blue color, which fall down to three attractors.

the color values are then passed to our DIY pixel dispenser.

written in processing using the proXML library, the traer.physics library and the arduino library

finishing moves

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

watch the progress on tims blog

electronics

the box

display

Monday, January 28th, 2008

bought this on ebay…

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maybe a conveyor belt?

Monday, January 28th, 2008

maybe. looks promising. but how to operate it?

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sand im getriebe

Monday, January 28th, 2008

in germany, when you want to say “to throw a spanner in the works”, you say “sand ins getriebe streuen” which can be translated as “pour sand in the gear”. which has now become a problem…

the sesame dispenser we wanted to use

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is quickly blocked by the sand… and not very precise…

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this is clearly not the way to go…