Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Chuck Rock, Arduino
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Recreating bullet time with a Raspberry Pi Camera rig
“Ben the Intern” (his real name is just “Ben”) was double dared by the camera team to recreate the camera rig responsible for the ground-breaking “bullet time” special effects in The Matrix using Raspberry Pi hardware. Then I triple dared him to write a story about how it went. This is that story.
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Chuck Rock
As for my cover, I'm using a number of original instruments that I built out of Commodore hardware (C64, 1541, A600). On the two lead C=tars, the upper rod is a pitch bend, the lower rod is a volume control, and space triggers a glide effect. On the bass C=tar, the lower rod controls the cutoff frequency of the resonant low-pass filter in the SID chip, while space repeats the most recently played note.
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[Repeat] What colour is the Commodore 64?
This discovery has shaken me up in ways I didn’t expect. While we all remember what colour the Apple II+ was, and the IBM 5150, and the Atari ST, I’m not not sure all C64 fans do… myself included.
There are a couple of reasons for this. The legendary machine came in so many permutations over its long production run, and even machines within the same generation had cosmetic and technical differences. It was Commodore’s way!
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UNO R4 Stars: Meet Tigris Li
After competing as a national figure skater in her native Canada and attracting over 1 million views as a Minecraft YouTuber – all by the age of 12! – the good-vibes powerhouse that is Tigris Li now invites us all to explore our most human inner workings. Her goals? To help everyone develop heightened emotional intelligence, and to educate and empower a new generation of innovators. She does so through her eclectic practice as an artist and creative technologist – leveraging 3D design and every tool making has to offer, to create experiences that spark conversations about our relationships with technology, each other, and ourselves.