Ok it looks like the website is back up again. Woohoo!
I’ve made a couple of quick videos and put them up on YouTube. One is about a cheesy program I wrote, MacBook Sonar. Basically it uses the laptop’s built-in hardware (speaker, mic) to measure the distance to the ceiling. Works decently well considering how hokey it is.
Here are a couple of videos of a stroboscope stopping the apparent motion of some of my tools (mill, grinder). Kind of cool.
Here’s a video I made that’s sort of interesting. I have this electric candle warmer that melts the wax, but when it cools the surface takes this strange concave shape that dips down perhaps 1/2″ or so. It’s hard to see but you can watch it form.
What about projects? A badly-timed hard drive crash wiped out most of my ramjet simulation work, and I decided to put it on the back burner (so to speak) for a number of reasons. However, I have made a good amount of progress on my latest project, which is a guided rocket. I will try and post again some time soon with some pictures of the current progress. There is a long way left to go, but I am actually quite pleased with things so far. If only I had more time.
