The Fixers Manifesto

Now proudly posted in my workshop:

Amazing Ski Video

Fly on Out

Wow, this is a really cool short film. I love the mix of slow motion shots.

Fly on Out from AbelCine on Vimeo.

Desktop UFO

I finished my Instructable and published it -- check it out: http://www.instructables.com/id/Desktop-UFO/

UFO LED Chaser

The UFO project is nearly complete! I've assembled the circuit and it works (after some brief debugging resulting in me discovering that I had a couple of leads left off.)

I plan on putting an Instructable together, but for now here's the video:

From my workbench...

...well, one of them.

While enduring a shopping adventure at Walmart, I came across some inexpensive metal candle holders. Putting two together and adding a glass top looked like a UFO. So I bought them. And got to work. And I can't wait to finish.

My plan is to add a chasing LED circuit and a 9V battery on the inside. My parts from DigiKey are on the way!

Data Visualization

Thanks to BoingBoing, I came across this website today that visualizes computer usage based on the the most foreground app running at the given moment.

 It's very similar to the pattern's I'm generating on my WhatColorIsTheSky.com project. Over time (and quite accidentally), the patterns show how the day/night cycle changes with the seasons.