Looking at my renders a couple things bother me. One, when looking out the window the eye adjusts for the glare and the window sill is basically a shadow. When taking a picture the glare makes it so the sill is often not visible, but certainly not well defined. I need something that acts more like a...
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Notes on ongoing projects — builds, experiments, and things I'm learning.
I’m working on some architectural type renders for my VR project. I have been constantly frustrated by Blender’s lack of CAD type tools. Ever since taking a 2D CAD class in college, typing in exact measurements for objects is how I naturally work. I had resorted to using Sketchup, then importing Col...
I love vintage analog synths! I’ve built a couple modules from the late great Ray Wilson and have dabbled with others. A classic happened across my lab bench recently, a classic from the great Tom Oberheim, a TVS-1. It is in good physical shape, but not functioning at all. Thanks to the schematics...
After working on my multiple GoPro setups I imagined “what would this look like if it were easy?” That led me to purchase an MFT Stereo lens from Loreo. Having a stereo camera removes the need to worry about shutter sync, syncing individual clips, color/exposure difference between cameras etc.
Fir...
Just saw that the Facebook 360 camera specs are on Github. The cameras from PtGrey, however, don’t appear to be in stock. Who wants to make a $30K camera!!
https://github.com/facebook/Surround360
https://www.ptgrey.com/surround-360-camera-bundle
(I followed up with sales at Ptgrey and they are quoti...
Here’s the rig I made to shoot with this past week. This is a first implementation of solutions for a couple problems I’ve noted shooting with the GoPros. First is batteries. The battery life on the GoPro is horrendous (especially when you forget to turn them off or they turn themselves on) So every...
VRography?
I recently got to thinking what’s next in photography?
I’m aware of the gigapan idea, basically making a monster panorama by stitching together many photos. I enjoyed my iPhone’s panorama mode last summer during my drive to Alaska. I’m intrigued by videography, but not in a story telle...
My new Hong Fu frame FM036 arrived at the post office just 7 days after order. Nicely packed and ready to be built!
I road my bike to school in high school and college. At some point I got a Specialized Allez carbon fibre road bike, but didn’t do a ton of recreational riding. Utilitarian riding burned me out and I haven’t owned a bike in 20 years. This winter here in Northern California has been unusually dry a...
8x10 LED Enlarger Head
RepRap After Dark
First test of using spindle control for the laser strength. The one pass cutout through this ¼" birch is at full strength, the engraving pass is at lowest power setting.