Posts by ancientjames@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #AucJdWeKdY2jx4p1Qe by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2025-02-21T08:00:38Z
       
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       One problem with a 360° display is that sometimes you want the content to align with the controller.This nifty hack uses the fact that everything is spinning, including the bluetooth antenna. It creates a map of the signal strength to any connected controllers and points to where it's strongest.
       
 (DIR) Post #AucJdb1WNGy9W9hb84 by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2025-02-21T21:05:24Z
       
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       I could probably get rid of the photodiode and sync the rotation to whatever device is nearby.
       
 (DIR) Post #AueUbzdxM3MX6k2Q5I by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2024-09-29T01:39:21Z
       
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       New personal best for pairing a bluetooth controller with linux - 1 hour and 13 minutes.
       
 (DIR) Post #AueUc53fDttftv6WLg by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2024-09-29T02:15:11Z
       
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       Oh. I spoke too soon.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwRjAC968bdCWkMpto by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2025-07-24T03:20:20Z
       
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       I made a new mouth mechanism. I'm calling it Selectramatronics.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwS4mwYo7ED8WNi7km by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2025-07-24T04:59:43Z
       
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       Selectramatronics is a portmanteau of portmanteaux. That's why it rolls off the tongue so smoothly.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwS4mxTAjfIVLC58bo by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2025-07-24T06:18:22Z
       
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       It looks cuter with its face on. And honestly, who among us can't say that?
       
 (DIR) Post #AwiEN0lKAgZq5y141Q by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2025-08-01T02:31:31Z
       
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       I think I'm ready to call this piece finished.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwiFE1uWdG0z0MbKDI by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2025-08-01T03:02:26Z
       
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       @futurebird I think there's something fundamentally creepy about any human(oid) animatronic. I felt that more realistic eyes would push it further into that territory, or at least surface another feature as the uncanniest bit.The whole thing is a new approach for me though.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxTk4HjjAN1gCUV4y0 by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2025-08-12T23:09:47Z
       
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       Have you ever listened to a beatboxer and thought, imagine if a machine could do that?(As suggested by @aeva)
       
 (DIR) Post #AxTk4JDXf0T8nFSP4q by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2025-08-14T03:26:57Z
       
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       I don’t understand why people keep saying it’s “creepy”.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxTk4KAO8DXZjkzOng by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2025-08-24T00:41:25Z
       
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       Now comes with build video https://youtu.be/bxvmATwi9Q8
       
 (DIR) Post #AyHGxw9g3muGeEtEq8 by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2025-09-16T22:26:49Z
       
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       When I made these, there were several I considered ruined because they had a prominent bubble or cavity, and I couldn't figure out how to colour match the resin.I only recently discovered that you don't need to! Clear resin works just fine - the way the light bounces around in there, you can't see the difference.You can still see a bit of a mess in front of the left stud here, but it used to be a gaping flaw.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzNxGBkQQwxYnuaKxc by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2025-10-20T00:46:20Z
       
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 (DIR) Post #AzaBk2NzXGIRiAjpeC by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2025-10-25T22:50:16Z
       
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       Spooky projection mapping
       
 (DIR) Post #AzaBk8BnxU75i75BU8 by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2025-10-25T22:50:34Z
       
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       Me with my seasonal content.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2lNFtVU0pdRXGfvU0 by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2026-01-29T02:28:37Z
       
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       Motors and LED panels again! Too early to tell whether this idea is stupid or brilliant.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2lPUZl1vCquXK4kPw by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2026-01-29T02:54:14Z
       
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       @futurebird it's the start of another, possibly novel, impractical low res 3D contraption.
       
 (DIR) Post #B35cQnQiKaakLcIdVo by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2026-02-07T17:32:23Z
       
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       "Animated Bokeh" has been on my whiteboard for a long time, and this is the result.I thought it would just be for cheesy novelty effects, but it also does lightfield manipulation that was cooler than I expected.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
       
 (DIR) Post #B35cQrkMHUgLjhWNge by ancientjames@mastodon.social
       2026-02-07T20:15:49Z
       
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       I made a deliberate decision not to put Bad Apple or Doom on this, YouTube commenters be damned.But I'm going to put Doom on it, aren't I?