The days click by at an alarmingly fast rate, up at 8 o’clock bed at midnight.
My aim is to use the modified intercoms I have already prepared, incorporating facial recognition to produce a new exhibit, using the familiar Raspberry Pi concealed inside the phone in conjunction with asmall concealed camera using Python Face recognition.
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This little item turned up when the system at my place was upgraded. The item was fitted around 2001 and unusually, it has a rather odd mini CRT (Cathode ray tube) bent at 90 degrees insed the unit. High voltage apart, it delivers a soft indistinct alalogue image, blurry – possibly due to it being out of adjustment!
The opportunity to use this as part of an installation is seductive. Three buttons (to release gate, activate screen and to speak) and a the button on the handset cradle will all be nice interactive elements. …
Some small progress with the first of three research projects:
I have hunted high and low to solve the problem of the password protected Siements/Telenorma Minitel terminal. However, another Minitel I bid for on eBay under £20 arrives, no password this time to deal with! This one has the all important function key and is monochrome. An Alcatel Minitel 1.
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(taken from Goldsmiths Blog)
Forgiving what? – My mother Josette and the sins she dealt me. An Installation.
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After some experimentation with tiny N20 5V DC motors, the same type found in MG905 servos – I realise that they run just too fast. For the DC motor to work I have used a small 2N7000 / 2N7002 / NDS7002A — N-Channel Mosfet.
I will use a few of these DC motors in the forthcoming installation for the final project, however, because the RPM is too fast, I will be converting some of the servos I have into continuous and much slower, rotating servos.…
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ATiny is a great little chip, low power, cheap to set up and compact. No Serial.prinln is available however so all testing is done on an Arduino Classic.
I tried out a little joystick I bought as a ‘bundle’ of sensors etc from China.… More...
Many designs of sand plotters are found on the Internet. When I first thought of doing this, I was unaware of how well trodden the path is, however I am not discouraged because it will be a good test of fabrication and still leave plenty of scope for designing patterns that can also be interactive to external environmental factors.… More...
Motorcycle Lift and How I fixed It
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