This is a new theme I’m trying as of April 1 (this is not a joke)…. it’s called Atahualpa. It looks like a neat theme, however I will have to perform some CSS tweaks (I don’t like the fluid width)… guess I have another excuse to use MacRabbit’s CSSEdit. I’m interested to hear what you think, I like it.
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I got an email from a friend a while ago showing me Lady GaGa’s (at the time) new video, Poker Face, in which for about two seconds shows her wearing (as she called them) ‘TV glasses’. She had asked if I could do something like that for her. Again, at the time I hadn’t considered using a micro-controller.
I finally decided to listen to an episode of FLOSS Weekly (with Leo Laporte and Randal Schwartz) entitled ‘Arduino’–it’s a micro controller which seems to have exactly the right amount of power to do what I’m looking to do (and for a reasonable cost).
Arduino is an open-source micro-controller which is programed in a unique language which steals from C an C++ (so it’s fairly easy), and costs only $20-$40. In discussion with this friend, she can’t decide whether she wants a (many)x(many), pre-packaged LED matrix or individual LEDs, the deciding factor is whether I can find a small enough LED to fit behind a lens of a pair of sunglasses. (This is the key to the whole project). The biggest issue with the LED matrix is the size of a backing controller.
I still have to find the electronics I need for this, find a way to effectively display intelligible characters or simple images without having to write to the LED, meaning I need to write a layer of abstraction.
Links:
More information about Arduino.
Lady GaGa’s video on Youtube, Poker Face.
Errata,
Sample image from Poker Face video:
As we’re already three months into the year I should have a plan:
April: have more videos posted and decide on a carrier (Vimeo, Youtube, etc..)
May: implement new theme header images
June: relink pages to make content domain-independant
July: switch to DreamHost from Godaddy
Aug: have email figured out: see this post for more info
Sept: clearly divide my content to their rightful place
Oct: implement ad-words
Nov: have new theme and logo ready to deploy for new year
Dec: have podcast-system up and producing
**All year to post at least twice per week (I’m setting a low bar to not be too unhappy-I can manage two posts/week)