Progress So Far:
Have the camera with GPS and parental software all up and running. EEPROM chip for the 10 second timer for the camera working. It also has 5 volt regulator to help keep the phone charged through USB connection. Camera is hacked to take pictures as programmed. Balloon is on its way and all should be ready for a Saturday launch.
Back in April we took a family trip to Monterey Bay, California. The day before we left we came up with a wacky idea to make a time lapse. $4 on a iPhone app, 2 rubber bands holding my phone to the rear view mirror, 6 months of sitting around and now something to show for it. It took 1200+ images, over 10 hours of driving ( 2 gas stops if you look close ), all down to 2 minutes of video.
For the nerds:
1. make list of jpg files : ls -1tr > files.txt
2. encode it : mencoder -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -o yourfile.avi -mf type=jpeg:fps=10 mf://@files.txt
Need ffmpeg and mencoder out of the debian or ubuntu repository
We are going to make a weather balloon to take pictures of space.
Give what you can ( Clark ) and Searle Family. We will be grateful.
- We need GPS enabled Cell Phone.
- Digital Camera
- Camera Card
- Weather Balloon ( > 1 Meter Diameter )
- Money
Donate:
There have been few really important problems that have had the beautiful opportunity to recursively fix or use itself. A great example it a project at work called zody, it is a bug tracking system. After a week of development, it was able to be running well enough to keep track of its own bugs and the feature requests of others.
Richard Stallman wrote GCC the GNU C Compiler from scratch. He was able to compile his compiler ( with a previous version ) and it has been used to compile the next generation of versions from that point on.
Notable Recursive Stuff:
- The term GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix!”.
- Git – After only a couple days, git source control had it’s own repository to maintain its own source code.
- Subversion – Source Control System, maintains its own code
- SharpDevelop – C# development program – written in C# , runs on .Net Framework, to write code for the .Net Framework.
- Emacs - A text editor that was used to write itself ( the source text )
Today I deployed some new software, that is designed to deploy other software to servers. So we naturally used it to deploy itself. It was really cool, and I had a big smile on my face, when it happened.
We got some free tickets to go to the Rocky Mountain Raceway. And since I hate spending money, it worked out really well. We have lived in Magna for about 10 years, and have never been to the raceway. It was a hillbilly heaven, lots of people just sitting around in waiting for a car to crash, as they drive around and around in circles.
Apparently there was a saints and sinner section, and we just sat in the sinner’s section. Everyone around us was drinking and smoking, even the 12 year old hill-folk. It was highly entertaining to watch all of them, even more fun than the race. Best part was seeing the mascot throw a water bottle and peg the guy right in front of me in the head, and he spilled his beer all over.
