Hack a Day just featured a Tesla-Coil based guitar amp.
Hack a day:
You’ve probably seen musical Tesla coils already. People have wired them up to computers and keyboards to make them serve as dangerous and awesome speakers.
Posts Tagged ‘People’
Musical Tesla Coils
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008“Body-Swapping”
Sunday, December 7th, 2008The Washingtonpost reports on Scientists Report Mental ‘Body-Swapping’. Effectively, people were made to think they were a mannequin, or even other people by using physical feedback that was consistent with what they were seeing from the perspective of the other.
Details are thin on the ground – what criteria they judged that the “body-swap” to have been perceived, being the most important one.* But it’s an interesting nod to an investigation of the grounding (or lack thereof) our perceived identity. Fertile ground for a Philosophical thesis based on the schism between body and self?
* Also, the reverent use of “Scientists” in the title is irritating.
The Spirit of Giving
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008CNN reports on the death of a Wal-Mart employee after being crushed by shoppers.
The day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday, is officially the start of the Christmas shopping season.
At the Wal-Mart, police say that a line began forming at 9 p.m. Thursday and that, by 5 a.m. Friday, there were as many as 2,000 customers outside. A video showed about a dozen people knocked to the ground as the doors were opened and the crowd surged, breaking the doors.
The employee was unlocking the doors;
[he] was “stepped on by hundreds of people” as other workers attempted to fight their way through the crowd, Fleming said.
“Several minutes” passed before others were able to clear space around the man and attempt to render aid. Police arrived, and “as they were giving first aid, those police officers were also jostled and pushed,” he said.
Illustrating the not-so-great side of a consumer culture.
Rental Woes in Sydney
Monday, August 11th, 2008Well. I was warned, but I wasn’t ready to spend my days picking through rental listings constituted by greed and misrepresentation.
– Room prices of more than $110 for sharing a room with 2 other people,
– Houses advertised in totally different Suburbs to where they actually are,
– and listings for Girls/Ladies/Female only.
everything else is way about budget, at +$210 for what would have been $130 last year.
Tsk. Difficult.
Sculpture: 3D modelling test run
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
I’ve just completed a quite successful test run of an idea for modelling people in 3D. There were some slight problems, but these were all caused by movement between shots, which will not happen in the final system. As a general note, I have realised I will need to get quite wide-angle cameras in order to capture the entire registration matt and model. The images in the Flickr set give a good idea of the process.
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