Senere på dagen fikk jeg også være da P3TV intervjuet han. Egentlig skulle jeg ta stills, men managementet ville ikke la oss ta bilder, kun filme.

Heldigvis hadde jeg med meg et Canon 5D mark II, men det betød at jeg måtte sitte ganske nært for å få gode bilder. Eksempel på mitt utsnitt i stillbildet til venstre.

Intervjuet med Jay-Z ble klippet opp og brukt i forskjellige sammenhenger, blant annet i denne reportasjen fra Lydverket om “Hiphop-presidenten” Barack Obama.

• Mina Hadjian på Hovefestivalen
• Teknokonkurranse: Hva er dette? Vinneren er kåret!
• Q-Car: Leketøysprodusent lager elbil for voksne
• Stortingsvalget 2009 – slik dekkes valg-kvelden på nett
• Fotoessay: Jay-Z og Beyoncé ankommer Trondheim

• Why twitter works / Screw productivity
• Den tilfredse fiskeren
• Is facebook dying?
• I have … followers?
• Stortingsvalget 2009 – slik dekkes valg-kvelden på nett

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• Found: Synesthesia
• Laser Breasts
• NRK P3 iPhone app Screenshots
• Cock Band – Intimate Videogame Controllers
• Cable porn

• New mixtape feature on Urørt.no
• The Blair watch project
• Ugress Feat. Therese Vadem – Makina Fifth
• SeeqPod Music (beta)
• Ways to share unsigned music from Urørt

via gizmodo.com

Nice.

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• Gang of Four – Pstereofestivalen 2009
• Urørt – sketches for new design
• Thåström – Pstereofestivalen 2009
• Late of the pier – Pstereofestivalen 2009
• Storm Troopers aka P3 besøker NRK Midtnytt

A bathroom scale is probably the last thing you would want as a christmas present. Imagine unwrapping it and trying to NOT seem insulted and hurt? Can you imagine a worse christmas present? Well, how about bathroom scales that take a picture of you, from the worst and least flattering angle, and uploads it straight to the web through Twitter and twitpic? Yes, I know, it’s a horrible idea! Which means it simply HAS to be made. So I did, or at least a working prototype!

Video demo (in Norwegian)

Research – trying to find the worst angle to take the picture from!

Check out the example photos taken with the Tweeting batroom scale.

The code

The code is written in actionscript3 and compiles as an AIR app, and is largely based on the wonderful work of Rudy van der Blom which he was so kind as to share with me. He made an APP called Twicam that lets you log in to your Twitter account, snap a 320×240 picture and upload it to the web with the push of a button.

I first change the code a little and added a keylistener, that automated the image posting when you pressed a certain button (r) on the keyboard. My plan was to modify the bathroom scale and add a switch to it, and run wires from the switch to a usb keyboard emulator. I sent that version to Rudy, and then he made a version that was motion triggered, which ment that no wires where necessary. Gold! He also added a cycler that made a grid consisting of four 160×120 images. I then increased the size of the final image to 640×480, and made a small change so that the app only posted a new image after the fourth grid had filled up (instead of every time a new grid was filled), and that is what the code is like now. A work in progress for sure, and I was so much fun to work with Rudy on this. Cool guy!

Code sharing

Rudy has agreed that we can share the code with anyone who want’s it, and I will try to find time to clean it up a little and upload it here. Rudy want’s to make and AIR installer for the motion triggered version and share it from his AIR app site. So stay tuned. Leave your info in the comments below if you want to be notified when the code is online!

Improvements

I have a bug in the code that makes the image uploaded to Twitpic “off” compared to what you see on the screen when the app is running, so that needs to be fixed. I also want to add the manual switch I think, so that the software only sends pictures when someone is actually standing on the scales. The motion trigger seems a little unpredictable and slow, at least it eats almost all my macbook memory for some reason. A manual switch and a key listener would make the result smoother and more predictable, but the drawback is that you need alot more hardware to set it up.

Other uses

The motiontriggered webcam is of course a very affordable security solution with free storage on the web, and can be used for just about anything. But I also made a Twittering christmas calendar, that takes a picture of the “thief” if she opens the day in her calendar too early. It’s still just a prototype, but here are some pictures that might give you an idea on how it works.

• Open source flash-based sound sequenzer
• Why twitter works / Screw productivity
• Bomber Jack Clone
• Screenshots from the Wimp music software
• Grant Robinson : Montage-a-google launcher

Resistanse is futile!

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• 2009 Movie Marathon : May
• FAIL: Watch 365 movies in a year!
• Mini-DIY: How to make your own Laptop mounted Document Holder
• DIY: How to make your own iPhone macro lens

Svar på konkurransen og vinn en hjemmesnekra Borg med opptaksfunksjon.

I Tekno episode 5 har jeg en konkurranse, hvor jeg har følgende utfordring:

The Borg er en av hovedfiendene i Star Trek-universet, og et av deres bad ass “mantra” er “Resistance is futile”. Men når kunne du første gang høre det sagt i en Star Trek tv-serie eller film? Bonusspørsmål: Når dukket The Borg opp første gang?

Vet du svaret?

Send svaret i en epost med “Borg” i emnefeltet til konkurranse@pappmaskin.no

Premie

I forrige konkurranse ga jeg vekk verdens mest geeky slips, men denne gangen tenkte jeg at den heldige vinner skulle få seg en vaske ekte Borg actiondukke, som kan ta opp og spille av lyd, og som jeg oppfordrer den heldige vinner til å fortsette å modifisere.

Se innslaget mitt om DIY julegaveideer i reprise

Del 1

Del 2

Last ned Tekno Episode 5 som BitTorrent:

1920×1080: tekno.s03e05.1920×1080.h264.NRK.mp4.torrent
1280×720: tekno.s03e05.1280×720.h264.NRK.mp4.torrent

Sjekk også ut denne videoen jeg filmet mens jeg testet den mjauende Darth Vaderen på katten vår.

• Teknokonkurranse: Hva er dette? Vinneren er kåret!
• Vibrobots (Tekno S03E04)
• Linux and Star Trek – OSNews.com
• Blog Torrent – Simplified bittorrent by Downhill Battle
• William Shatner movie set in Riverside a hoax

Love the idea, but the game itself looks dreadful. They should have modded rockband instead.

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• Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past
• Laser Breasts
• NRK P3 iPhone app Screenshots
• The WTF Blanket