(okay, first time trying an embed in Yuku, lessee if I can pull this off) (Edit2: nope, I can't. And now I have to remove all those stupid
? by hand. There's some web designers at Yuku who need serious re-training....)
But first, a bit of explanation: This footage was shot about two/three weekends back, at Penguicon, an annual SF/Linux/Hacker/Maker/WhatTheHeckEver convention in Detroit. One of our regular attractions is the Con Chaos machine, which is essentially a set of kits from ChaosToy. We set the parts out in a corner of the hotel and basically invite all comers to hack/whack/whittle/meddle on the machine all weekend long. I've always thought it would make a great time-lapse movie, and when I proposed it a couple years back, I got "volunteered" to get my James Cameron on. Last year was my first attempt (it's on YouTube), but frankly the machine didn't get much action in 2011 -- the machine was just in too cramped an area.
This year, however, I got asked to actually take charge of the machine. And was foolish enough to say "yes." Still, this year we had a new hotel, new Machine location, and I'd gotten some more practice at doing the whole Time-Lapse thingy. Still got a lot to learn, but it made a fairly decent movie, if I do say so myself. The hi-res 200MB videos are up at my webpage at skyefire.org. The fuzzier downconverted Youtube versions are here and here.
Tech notes: original photos captured 1 every 60sec using a Canon Powershot A560 running CHDK. File organizing and date/time overlay made using AutoIT and ImageMagick. Still-to-video conversion done using mencoder.
And, hey, look! ?An embed!
(Edit: ? ooorrrr.... not. ?Weird, it shows up fine in the edit window....)?
? by hand. There's some web designers at Yuku who need serious re-training....)
But first, a bit of explanation: This footage was shot about two/three weekends back, at Penguicon, an annual SF/Linux/Hacker/Maker/WhatTheHeckEver convention in Detroit. One of our regular attractions is the Con Chaos machine, which is essentially a set of kits from ChaosToy. We set the parts out in a corner of the hotel and basically invite all comers to hack/whack/whittle/meddle on the machine all weekend long. I've always thought it would make a great time-lapse movie, and when I proposed it a couple years back, I got "volunteered" to get my James Cameron on. Last year was my first attempt (it's on YouTube), but frankly the machine didn't get much action in 2011 -- the machine was just in too cramped an area.
This year, however, I got asked to actually take charge of the machine. And was foolish enough to say "yes." Still, this year we had a new hotel, new Machine location, and I'd gotten some more practice at doing the whole Time-Lapse thingy. Still got a lot to learn, but it made a fairly decent movie, if I do say so myself. The hi-res 200MB videos are up at my webpage at skyefire.org. The fuzzier downconverted Youtube versions are here and here.
Tech notes: original photos captured 1 every 60sec using a Canon Powershot A560 running CHDK. File organizing and date/time overlay made using AutoIT and ImageMagick. Still-to-video conversion done using mencoder.
And, hey, look! ?An embed!
(Edit: ? ooorrrr.... not. ?Weird, it shows up fine in the edit window....)?