Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
This grabbed my eye today.
Camera-object designed for time-syncronized double exposures of opposing settings (180°) on one film. 2x agfa box (widely modified), wire, glass, plasic, velvet, double cable release, roll-film (modified/ without halation protection)
Looks like a nice camera mod.
[via Flickr]
zeitsynchrone photographie
(machine translated page from original German)
Looks like mega director James Cameron is stirring up the muck with his latest project. Seems he found the Jesus family tomb. And bones. And evidence that Jesus had a wife and kids. Yeah, that’s going to give some people a brain ache. It must be a bit like finding out that Star Wars is all blue screen and miniatures…
So will Cameron’s next film be, if they can get DNA out of the bones, a new twist on the film ‘The Boys From Brazil‘? You decide, go have a look at the article of you can wait an see the documentary on the Discovery channel.
Acting like a TV guide to the entire world, Netherlands based wwITV.com is a portal to hundreds of video streams from around the world. Everything from the latest news recap from the BBC to the home shopping network in Japan you can pretty much find something you like here. Now, you’re going to need to have Media Player or Real Player installed on your system. I didn’t have Real Player on my system but the Firefox plugin installer took care of that without even a browser re-launch. Nice. If you don’t want to bung up your system with even more suspect from Microsoft you can use Media Player Classic (Media Player Classic is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows. It looks just like the good-old Media Player v6.4, but has lots of nice extra features) or VLC.
Today on Retro Thing I saw that there is a new on chip audio synthesizer on the market.
The Soundgin is a serially controlled Sound Synthesizer in a PIC.
It produces complex sound effects, synthesizer style music and English speech with an unlimited vocabulary.
For use in manufactured electronics and home projects. .
The Soundgin is an 18-Pin Microchip PIC18F1320 that has been programmed to generate complex sounds by incorporating six oscillators which can interact with each other in various ways. The oscillators are configured by sending short serial commands to the Soundgin via the RX pin. These configurations result in the Soundgin’s oscillators continuously generating sound. The Soundgin also contains presets that can be used to configure the oscillators to generate predefined sound such as a Gong, Steam Engine, Etc… The six are spit up into two identical units referred to as Sound Engines.
The sample on the page are quite good. I can see this as an easy to implement addition to a lot of DIY music projects or a speech synthesizer for robots.
[via retrothing]
Soundgin
Not that the need to connect an antique floppy drive to you computer happens everyday but if it does, this is just the device you will be needing.
The xu1541 is the modern way to connect cbm iec bus devices to todays USB equipped PCs and it is meant to replace the printer port solutions based on the so-called original x1541 cable. The xu1541 interface allows you e.g. to attach a VC1541 disk drive to your desktop PC as depicted below. This allows for easy transfer of disk images from and to the old units and helps you preserve your ancient data.
If your looking for a nice Commodore 64 emulator I’d recommend CCS64. I’ve had good results with that myself.
MAKE: Blog: Use a Commodore disk drive on a PC
Wow, these kits bring back some good memories. When I was a kid my dad used to buy these all the time. I was too young to solder but I could plug stuff in the box. I’m not sure if he built all the kits that he bought, I remember him saying they were a good source of parts. At least I know where I got that trait from. 🙂
A few of these show up on Ebay from time to time but if your looking for some quality vintage plans the owner of this site has graciously scanned in the instructions. Time to get building the neon ‘goofy’ light!