Projects
Smart Picture Frame
When you have a modern resolution monitor that doesn’t work, but is in otherwise good physical condition, do you throw it away as e-waste? Not us, one of our members was in this situation, and after some searching online, found a replacement controller board, and now had a completely working computer screen ready to do something cool. The timber used in this frame was otherwise going to waste Another of our members took the screen and built a timber frame from it from old scrap timber that was...
Arcade Game Table
So what do you do when you get a free table from someone online and an old computer screen? You strip off all the casing from the computer screen down to its raw components, take a circular saw to the table to cut out an opening for the screen to fit in, of course. Stephen & Mic tidying up the cut edges with a routed chamfer This was the initial thought which led to the conception of our idea that we wanted to build a retro arcade game table out of old scraps of hardware and into something...
I made bushfire maps from satellite data, and found a glaring gap in Australia’s preparedness
Image courtesy of Greg Harvie, Author provided Wallace Boone Law, University of Adelaide On the night of January 9 2020, my wife and I secured our Kangaroo Island home and anxiously monitored the South Australian Country Fire Service (CFS) website for bushfire advice. After many horrific weeks of bushfires, the winds had again shifted, and the fire front began a slow, nightmarish march eastward into the island’s central farmlands. Official warnings advised that the entire island was...
Capturing the beauty of mess and destruction
Sometimes there are things that happen in the world around us that look beautiful, or just plain cool. The controlled demolition of a building as the internal foundations collapse downwards. The time lapse of a flower bud growing, pushing up through the stem, going on to bloom into a flower then wilting away into just a shadow of its former self. An egg, as it's being smashed to pieces, capturing the mess just before it lands all over its surrounds. A splattering egg will be all over in around 100ms, all over the ground that is. Its great to be able to see interesting things in real time, we get to appreciate the action literally as it happens. But what about when that's not possible? There are many things that can happen either too fast or too slow for us to see and if we don't slow down or speed up time, we'd completely miss them happening. Slowing down time When we want to slow down or freeze time, we can use high speed video or high speed photography. High speed video captures...
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