Stuart Hooper

stoweboyd: John Hendrix for the nytimes

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:33:34 +0100

stoweboyd:

John Hendrix for the nytimes

Photo

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:28:04 +0100

Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:59:35 +0100

Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age

Scary fat self inflicted homework books just came....

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:27:16 +0100

Scary fat self inflicted homework books just came. http://bit.ly/15yWUY1

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new"

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:33:38 +0000

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new”

- Einstein, Albert

I feel very tired after a 0730 - 0100 day debugging this fun...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:01:01 +0000

I feel very tired after a 0730 - 0100 day debugging this fun little proof of concept piece for clear channel. Back on it tomorrow as well.
More information at a later date-r.

Drawscript

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:12:26 +0000

Drawscript:

fifteenspiredme:

Drawscript is an extension for Illustrator. It generates graphics code from vector shapes in realtime for:

OBJ-C

C++

JAVASCRIPT

PROCESSING

ACTIONSCRIPT 3

JSON

RAW BEZIER POINTS

Today I have started working with python’s serial...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:55:44 +0000

Today I have started working with python’s serial connection to the arduino.
This is a basic LED control test. The python/Arduino equivalent of the ‘blink’ sketch.

It may not look like much because it isn’t. However It’s a step into Python I’m sure to use on a daily basis.

I’m going to connect it to Gmail and a few other services I use so that I don’t have to keep logging on to get notification of messages. Instead I will build more interesting triggers. Like blink(1) but not totally pointless.

fisheo: Les codes les plus en vogue pour 2013

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:30:35 +0000

fisheo:

Les codes les plus en vogue pour 2013

My new toy. When Arduinos/Programming change from a hobby to an...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:04:00 +0000

My new toy.
When Arduinos/Programming change from a hobby to an occupation, I need a new hobby. In May myself and some friends are cycling from London to Paris.
I quit smoking a couple of weeks ago, cut out dairy and started training. I bought this bike from ebay to fix up and ride.
Looking forward to it and enjoying it.
It’ll be off the piano the second we get the thing tuned.

"We are seeing a shift away from mass consumption towards mass communication. Whatever can become..."

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:23:13 +0000

“We are seeing a shift away from mass consumption towards mass communication. Whatever can become digital will become digitized. The contents of entire rooms (libraries, offices, etc.) have been condensed into a footprint the size of a single laptop. Expect major changes in the consumption patterns of today’s youth – particularly in America and Europe. Younger generations are becoming less interested in accumulating debt for the purchase of cars and housing. Renting and sharing are becoming more common arrangements for large physical assets. Economics is becoming less about ownership and more about access.”

- Seven Themes for the Coming Decade | World Future Society

(via futuristgerd)

Data Viz: You’re Doin’ it Wrong I’ve just...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:12:00 +0000

Data Viz: You’re Doin’ it Wrong

I’ve just started working with NodeBox to add some animation to my HTML. I decided while I’m at it I will practice some data visuals. I found this video, it’s two years old but hardly viewed so I thought I would share. It’s quite funny.

smartercities: Urban traffic made beautiful. Mesmerizing video...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:45:53 +0000

smartercities:

Urban traffic made beautiful. Mesmerizing video

New Raspberry Pi! Soon to be a smartphone controlled home...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:12:23 +0000

New Raspberry Pi! Soon to be a smartphone controlled home stereo. (at home)

Interesting. prostheticknowledge: Re: Sound Bottle An...

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:10:47 +0000

Interesting.

prostheticknowledge:

Re: Sound Bottle

An electronic sound sampler in a bottle which constructs music from the sounds you give it, by Jun Fujiwara - video embedded below:

Re: Sound Bottle from Jun Fujiwara on Vimeo.

This is a music medium that can reproduce a recorded voice as music. It makes a database of sound sources that is managed and used as formal and automatic repetitions, and forms a music medium of the day. I felt something missing in the habitual use of music reproduction media, so I thought to create an interactive music medium that changes. By using everyday voices as sources of music, the sounds that are heard all the time every day carry infinite possibilities and help us reaffirm the enjoyment of music. I hope people can experience their own music.

Link

"Here’s my advice to you and your tech company: hire an artist."

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:10:24 +0100

“Here’s my advice to you and your tech company: hire an artist.”

- Jer Thorp (via poptech)

Here is a little plug for an excellent product a friend is...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:37:24 +0100

Here is a little plug for an excellent product a friend is co-directing…

The Essential Elixir For Tattoo Longevity! 100% chemical and cruelty free….

This revolutionary tattoo tonic has been designed to nourish, regenerate and bring out the natural luminosity of your skin, especially when it is placed under duress (winter, wind/sunburn and tattoos etc) and in need of extra protection and a little healing promotion.The ingredients used in this product will NOT (as many other recommended tattoo products on the market will) block your skin’s pores, (which will obviously delay natural skin healing), strip colour from your tattoos (lanolin - used in most tattoo products!), harm the planet or any of the creatures living in it. Pure reassurance in every tin.

Missy Le Pink’s Tattoo Tonic is a soothing, healing, restorative balm, thoughtfully hand made with 100% natural, Vegan and high grade Organic (wherever possible) ingredients. It is completely FREE of Petroleum, Lanolin, Parabens and Preservatives (other than 100% natural ones!) so will not block pores and strip colour (as practically ALL other brands - including Bepanthen will.)For your safety, this product has been extensively researched AND tested (on people and fresh tattoos), and has passed all E.U. safety regulations necessary for it to be available on the market.

http://www.missylepink.co.uk

Note the jump cables. Sparkfun decided to link the Clk and Data...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:57:08 +0100

Note the jump cables.
Sparkfun decided to link the Clk and Data pins to the same ones the Ethernet shield uses.
Fixed now.

Burgervan tadpole? Maybe. The screen is alive! What a fun...

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:55:00 +0100

Burgervan tadpole?

Maybe.

The screen is alive!

What a fun Saturday (given the standard of entertainment in Reading)

At the moment I’m just setting the text as gibberish, hence standards: low, that doesn’t actually mean the standards are low. Each string has to be mapped to the screen to stop it overlapping or running over. At this time it wasn’t even connected to the server. That is where I will place the server information though so it’s a good place to put it now. I don’t think I’ll put the burgervan tadpole information anywhere because there is no burgervan tadpole. Although, maybe there is?

String() - avoid the dynamic memory bug Arduino

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:05:00 +0100

Please put a severe Government health warning on any use of Strings on the Arduino main reference pages, or remove Strings completely from the reference - there must be hundreds of people being sucked into using them by advertising Strings there.

Of which I am one. I completed coding a massive portion of this new project just over a week ago and I was set for the downhill glide into coffee heaven.

While testing the code I find the memory clogs up after between an hour and five hours of receiving and interpreting information from the twitter web server. All demo sketches on this subject supplied with the libraries used Strings to handle the bulk of the work. With this and the lack of warning supplied, I now find myself rebuilding sections of code with language not even documented on the Arduino Reference page. If you have not encountered this project or maybe you’re not sure why you’re arduino crashes after a few hours… There is a bug and here is as much documentation as I can offer you, including some commands not displayed on the reference page to help you work around it.

http://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=857

^The problem

http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/StringObject

^The lack of warning

http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,124367.0.html

^The recent thread explaining it

http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,95914.30.html

^An older thread explaining it

http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/String

^What to use instead (c string)

http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/group__avr__string.html

^Useful c string commands

http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/modules.html

^ Some other useful modules Arduino Reference never told you about

I found no documentation about it until I started a thread concerning a crashing problem. I think it definitely needs to be made clear that String is currently unstable. If you don’t ask, you generally don’t find out… Which is the opposite of what I need as I’m, for the most part, a visual learner. For that reason I’m sharing this information now to hopefully save some of you the same problem in the future.

I’m a little worried that perhaps this is out of the hands of the open source community as no one seems to be able to fix this nasty problem.

Stuart Hooper

stoweboyd: John Hendrix for the nytimes

Photo

Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age

Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age

Scary fat self inflicted homework books just came....

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new"

I feel very tired after a 0730 - 0100 day debugging this fun...

Drawscript

Today I have started working with python’s serial...

fisheo: Les codes les plus en vogue pour 2013

My new toy. When Arduinos/Programming change from a hobby to an...

"We are seeing a shift away from mass consumption towards mass communication. Whatever can become..."

Data Viz: You’re Doin’ it Wrong I’ve just...

Data Viz: You’re Doin’ it Wrong

smartercities: Urban traffic made beautiful. Mesmerizing video...

New Raspberry Pi! Soon to be a smartphone controlled home...

Interesting. prostheticknowledge: Re: Sound Bottle An...

"Here’s my advice to you and your tech company: hire an artist."

Here is a little plug for an excellent product a friend is...

Note the jump cables. Sparkfun decided to link the Clk and Data...

Burgervan tadpole? Maybe. The screen is alive! What a fun...

String() - avoid the dynamic memory bug *Arduino*

String() - avoid the dynamic memory bug Arduino