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I'm Gediminas and you are in my sandbox, grab your favorite tool and come join me in the game!
Captured with: Nikon D7000
Footage edited with: AE, PremierPro.
Glass: Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G
We had a guest – Darth Vader in our city. A famous one. Well known to everybody who loves sci-fi 
May 14-15 is a day when the Lithuanicon’2011 will take place in Hotel “Holiday Inn”. Do not miss that! 
This was a 2nd time when I used a tripod like a shoulder rig. I would side, it works like a charm!
More details about the Lithuanicon’2011 >> and >>
Few fotos from action:
Arduino based box is connected through the USB with the software module which periodically checks the Hudson job status and triggers the appropriate LED on the box. Software module is based on Java and use RXTX module for communication with the Arduino board.
“<...>Hudson monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron.” More details about Hudson can be found on Hudson WIKI
1. Arduino Board
2. 10-kilohm Potentiometer
3. 7 segments LED
4. Blue, Yellow, Red LED’s
5. Few meters of wire
This is a simple project to provide detailed build story steps. In short: potentiometer is connected to HudsonLifeSupport box to configure the timeout between the the status retrieval from Hudson server. While rotating the potentiometer 7 segment LED shows the number of time units to countdown. Moreover, during potentiometer rotation the HudsonBuildBox turns to the configuration mode. In case the potentiometer value stays the same for 5 seconds, countdown clock starts. When the countdown is close to zero HudsonBuildBox sends a signal to the software module to retrieve the build status for a configured target in Hudson CI server. Software module retrieves the build status thanks to Hudson XML API.
In case build is successful the BLUE light is triggered.
In case there’s failing unitests YELLOW light is triggered.
In case the build is failed due to compilation errors RED light is triggered.
In case Hudson server is not reachable for some reason (no connecion, server is down) all the LED’s turns to blinking mode until the Hudson server is up.
Code base & Arduino firmware will be posted to GoogleCode next week. Or if you can’t wait drop me an email with your question
Similar project: “Ultimate CI Visual feedback” from the “The Ultimate Wallboard” contest”.
Also a similar idea just more in style:
Mini project #2 after my grand 1st one: Last week I had a change to test my new setup of my UltraHD camcorder.
Led dim lighter, mono-pod & glued wide lens of 37mm. Worked like charm in low light conditions. Just double check the glass when you gluing a lens on it. In my case the whole surface of video glass was piled by superglue steam. It caused a natural blur filter in final footage. Also dim light was filtered by white paper do restrict direct dim light to the subject. Doing so will help you to keep your subject as close as possible to your camera without distracting it with direct light.
Final shot – caught in action
A video documentary output for your judge is here:
Also foto footage from event:
Next day (Sunday) was flying day. Rainy but flyable. Also thermal activity was also in the air, but not for me due to rainy clouds and dirty ground at that time. Some shots from the Sunday sky:
“<...>A friend of a friend created this funny mini series based on the lives of Derek and Jeffery, two everyday cats who lose the plot and become Leonidis and Artemis from Sparta. Class!” (c) http://thedeadaredyingofthirst.blogspot.com
Facebook, twitter, your home page, your online albums ant etc.. All of those are reflections of your life in many formats. Some of them are published to social media, some of them are left in a shadow.
My mission here is to accumulate all those flows to the singular point and make it self living organism.
Twitter, home page, online albums like Picasa have a rss feed. By using rss feed and online service http://twitterfeed.com you can setup an automatic rss feed re-publisher to a few services like twitter, facebook, statusnet, ping.fm, hellotxt.
http://twitterfeed.com was my choice of the simplicity & free of charge service. Alternative would be to use http://feedburner.google.com, but this one does not have a facebook connector.
The draft concept would be something similar to:
Main feed flow from picasaweb, own pages (home page), vimeo account are published to twitter account. Twitter account feed is published to Facebook. Also Linked in account is connected to the my own home page through the Linked in wordpress connector.
How would you mount your projector? Driling some holes in the walls? Buying some ugly docking stations and again driling the walls or living room ceiling? I came to simple solution by playing with the regular tripod and two monopods:
1. stable.
2. portable.
3. ajustable.
4. durable & resistant even to the golden retriever tail movements
p.s. In my family there’s no place for TV. And we keep this status for about 3 years.
