Nice spike

By the way, things you probably didn’t know about Boing Boing co-founder Mark Frauenfelder :)

• Boing Boing: Can anyone own “Web 2.0?”
• DIY : The picturetweeting bathroom scale (aka the worst christmas present ever)
• Want!: Napoleon Dyanamite action figures on the way
• Wired News: Watchdogs Sniff Out Terror Sites
• Ads by Google gone gay!

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• NRK P3 iPhone app Screenshots
• Gang of Four – Pstereofestivalen 2009
• Urørt – sketches for new design
• Thåström – Pstereofestivalen 2009
• Late of the pier – Pstereofestivalen 2009

Min kommentar til den hvite versjonen:
Det er ikke alle helveticonsene som tåler å bli skalert ned, så dersom
vi skal ha det slik må vi jobbe litt med pixlene for å få det pent,
evt ta ned kontrasten litt. Ellers liker jeg det litt egentlig. Litt
klumpete font muligens (12px verdana bold) men ekstremt lesbart, som
er pri en for nav. Er usikkert på om ikonene tilfører tydelighet eller
om de bare ødelegger roen. Navigasjonen skriker for mye om
oppmerksomhet? Navigasjon er noe folk generelt ignorerer uansett helt
til de er stukk eller vil ha en ny quick fix, så fint om den ikke gjør
for mye ut av seg.

Har også laget en kjapp invertert versjon, altså med sort
bakgrunnsfarge og hvite ikoner.

Min kommentar til den: Hm, interessant! Men det kommer veldig an på
hvordan headeren over blir seende ut tror jeg. Hvitt og lyst blender
bedre inn i bakgrunnen på sida for øvrig, mens sort og den blå fargen
bak p3.no til venstre spiller godt sammen med fargene i Nå på P3
under. Den sorte varianten rammer på en måte inn det innholdet som
kommer under. Men samtidig slåss den litt med NRK sine heavy toppmeny
(som var grunnen til at jeg ville gå motsatt vei på p3 sin nav, altså
lyst, for å slippe rad på rad på rad med horisontale sterke linjer.

m.

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• Urørt, oversikt (sitemap)
• DIY: Spill Rock Band 2 med ekte gitar og boksehansker!
• Fotoessay: Jay-Z og Beyoncé ankommer Trondheim
• Vibrobots (Tekno S03E04)
• Test: Publishing to Wordpress from Scribblelive

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
• Filmpolitiet 2010 – Metadataeksempler
• Cock Band – Intimate Videogame Controllers

• 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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• Found: Synesthesia
• Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past
• NRK P3 iPhone app Screenshots
• Filmpolitiet 2010 – Metadataeksempler
• Cock Band – Intimate Videogame Controllers

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• Filmpolitiet 2010 – Metadataeksempler
• Gang of Four – Pstereofestivalen 2009
• Urørt – sketches for new design
• Thåström – Pstereofestivalen 2009
• Late of the pier – Pstereofestivalen 2009

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