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22 Jul 06:33
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Googly Eyes Follow You Around the Room
by Bryan Cockfield
If you’re looking to build the next creepy Halloween decoration or simply thinking about trying out OpenCV for the first time, this next project will have you covered. [Glen] made a pair of giant googly eyes that follow you around the room using some servos and some very powerful software.
The project was documented in three parts. In Part 1, [Glen] models and builds the eyes themselves, including installing the servo motors that will eventually move them around. The second part involves an Arduino and power supply that will control the servos, and the third part goes over using OpenCV to track faces.
This part of the project is arguably the most interesting if you’re new to OpenCV; [Glen] uses this software package to recognize different faces. From there, the computer picks out the most prominent face and sends commands to the Arduino to move the eyes to the appropriate position. The project goes into great detail, from Arduino code to installing Ubuntu to running OpenCV for the first time!
We’ve featured some of [Glen]’s projects before, like his FPGA-driven LED wall, and it’s good to see he’s still making great things!
Filed under: video hacks
22 Jul 06:31
two types of chats
group chat: lol look at this meme you pieces of shit
private chat: i don't know anymore. im hoping that someday i'll just know what to do. sorry for complaining and thanks for always listening to me
private chat: i don't know anymore. im hoping that someday i'll just know what to do. sorry for complaining and thanks for always listening to me
22 Jul 06:31
snealiv: The single greatest picture ever taken in my life. We...
The single greatest picture ever taken in my life. We threw Yu-gi-oh cards at the ceiling fan to watch them scatter, and just happened to take a picture right at this exact moment. To this day, this is the only time I’ve ever heard of anyone breaking a ceiling fan blade with cards.
22 Jul 06:26
New New WightAn online virtual gallery exhibition from ucladma...
New New Wight
An online virtual gallery exhibition from ucladma featuring works from familiar Tumblr-based net artists such as kyttenjanae and adamferriss :
New New Wight is a virtual exhibition space based on the New Wight Gallery located at UCLA. It is conceived as a space for art-making liberated from institutional limitations such as the prohibition of food and plants inside the gallery, but also from the inherent limitations of our material world. The NNW is a space where the only portal required to enter is the internet and where the laws of physics no longer apply.
The exhibition is built using the game engine Unity - you can find out more as well as download the exhibition from the exhibition website here
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22 Jul 06:24
June 6 is a day of many anniversaries, including the 2012...
June 6 is a day of many anniversaries, including the 2012 Transit of Venus - the last in our lifetimes. Here, a chromospheric portrait of the sun captured on May 9th.
22 Jul 06:23
VNGRAVITY - DreamhouseOnline exhibition built with Unity...
VNGRAVITY - Dreamhouse
Online exhibition built with Unity features top net artists work in a reconstruction of ‘Casa Blanca’ (a Mexican presidential home):
This is an architectonic digital reconstruction of a place called “Casa Blanca ” in Mexicothis place (the house of the mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto) had international rosonance as a postcard about illicit luxury, thug practices of the elites. But the satiric tone makes it not a local issue, but a global view of squandering.
For this show Vmgravity is featuring the work of artists from USA, México, Sweden, Austria and Australia wich works deal with this conceptual universe
- Katie Torn katietorn
- Birch Cooper [birchcooper]
- Alfredo Salazar-Caro [salazarcaro]
- Víctor Barragán [ytinifninfinity]
- Martin Onassis [martinolsson]
- Aoto Ooouchi [aotooouchi]
- Rachael Archibald [rachaelarchibald]
- Alejandro García Contreras [alejandrogarciacontreras] + Josée Pedneault
- Edgar Silva
- Matthew Hillock
You can view the 3D exhibition online here
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22 Jul 06:20
BLADE RUNNER - poster by P-Lukaszewski
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22 Jul 06:18
Links I’m catching up and killing tabs. So here’s...
Links
I’m catching up and killing tabs. So here’s what you might have missed last week:
- A Compilation of Robots Falling Down at the DARPA Robotics Challenge - Youtube
- Team KAIST Wins DARPA Robotics Challenge - IEEE Spectrum
- World’s first biolimb: Rat forelimb grown in the lab - New Scientist
- Google Wants to Get in Your Levi’s with Smart Jeans - PSFK
- Spider silk bras could be the next big thing — Hopes&Fears
- ‘Brainprints’ could replace passwords - KurzweilAI
- Robots Learn to Push Heavy Objects With Their Bodies, Just Like You - IEEE Spectrum
- Drones are the newest weapon in the fight against Chinese exam cheaters - Quartz
- YASKAWA BUSHIDO PROJECT / industrial robot vs sword master - YouTube
- Increasingly adaptable robot can ‘heal’ itself in under 2 minutes - mashable
Quite a week for our futures.
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18 Jul 00:24
Everyone with a phone is a photographer, and today, updating Warhol's old saw, everyone is famous for 15pixels. Between filters and apps, we can fool ourselves that we're good, but confronted with an artist evidencing rare gifts in the medium, the chasm between our humble snaps and his staggeringly beautiful work is clear. If I could keep Bill Phelps in my pocket, I'd throw away my cameras. There will never be a Phelps app, because there's no algorithm for the emotional connection between the man and his subject matter; Bill captures some mysterious quality in people, machines, and even grime, which scratches at our souls.
Bill Phelps is best known in the alt.moto world for a series of exquisitely composed shots of models with old bikes (Vincents, Velocettes, Nortons, etc - all his) most of which were taken in 1998/9. He has since moved on to professional work for the likes of Condé Nast, and his work is shown at Robin Rice Gallery in NYC, but he remains an oil-stained gearhead, eager to reveal the epic from a familiar mix of people and machines. I've featured his work in 2010 (his gallery collection) and in 2013 (from Wheels+Waves), and it doesn't age a bit. The current collection is perhaps his best yet, hinting at his maturation as an artist.
Our schedules coincided last month, and Bill was able to stretch a magazine shoot in Strasbourg to a weekend at the Vintage Revival event in the Montlhéry speed bowl. The storied race track, combined with the deliciously gritty subject matter, was catnip to Bill, and he's produced a new photo series, a few of which I'm lucky to share on TheVintagent. You'll see more in print soon, which I'll announce via my Facebook and Instagram accounts. For now, enjoy his work!
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BILL PHELPS: CATCHING HEROES
by The Vintagent
Everyone with a phone is a photographer, and today, updating Warhol's old saw, everyone is famous for 15pixels. Between filters and apps, we can fool ourselves that we're good, but confronted with an artist evidencing rare gifts in the medium, the chasm between our humble snaps and his staggeringly beautiful work is clear. If I could keep Bill Phelps in my pocket, I'd throw away my cameras. There will never be a Phelps app, because there's no algorithm for the emotional connection between the man and his subject matter; Bill captures some mysterious quality in people, machines, and even grime, which scratches at our souls.
Bill Phelps is best known in the alt.moto world for a series of exquisitely composed shots of models with old bikes (Vincents, Velocettes, Nortons, etc - all his) most of which were taken in 1998/9. He has since moved on to professional work for the likes of Condé Nast, and his work is shown at Robin Rice Gallery in NYC, but he remains an oil-stained gearhead, eager to reveal the epic from a familiar mix of people and machines. I've featured his work in 2010 (his gallery collection) and in 2013 (from Wheels+Waves), and it doesn't age a bit. The current collection is perhaps his best yet, hinting at his maturation as an artist.
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Our schedules coincided last month, and Bill was able to stretch a magazine shoot in Strasbourg to a weekend at the Vintage Revival event in the Montlhéry speed bowl. The storied race track, combined with the deliciously gritty subject matter, was catnip to Bill, and he's produced a new photo series, a few of which I'm lucky to share on TheVintagent. You'll see more in print soon, which I'll announce via my Facebook and Instagram accounts. For now, enjoy his work!
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18 Jul 00:24
A MATCHLESS MILITARY OUTFIT
by The Vintagent
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| The 1916/17 Motor Machine Gun Corps Matchless sidecar platform |
Bonhams is offering a remarkable motorcycle at the upcoming Banbury Run sale on June 20th. Matchless v-twins of the 'Teens are rare and coveted, given their tremendous racing history with the Collier brothers; finding one which survives intact from a consignment meant for pre-revolutionary Russia must be unique. The catalog copy is well done, so I'll post it verbatim from the Bonhams page:
"Following the outbreak of The Great War in August 1914, the British Army's demand for motorcycles for despatch and other purposes increased exponentially. The rationale of standardisation saw the majority of solo machines sourced from Douglas and Triumph, while Clyno supplied most of the Motor Machine Gun Corps' outfits, with contributions from Scott and P&M. Matchless, Royal Enfield, Rudge-Whitworth and Sunbeam and numerous other manufacturers also supplied machines to the British Armed Forces and those of its allies, principally Russia, which had no domestic motorcycle manufacturing industry worth mentioning. After the Russian Revolution of October 1917 and the country's withdrawal from the war, shipments of motorcycles remained piled up at ports, and after the cessation of hostilities many were bought back by their manufacturers to supply an eager civilian market.
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| The Vickers 8B2N machine gun can be used in anti-aircraft mode, and carries all ammo boxes etc. |
The machine offered here was part of an order for 250 placed in 1916/1917. In its edition of 14th June 1917, The Motor Cycle published an illustrated article about the new 8hp JAP-engined Matchless combination ordered by the Russian government. Another TMC article, this one dated 29th May 1919, reports on a government auction of unused machines, remarking that 'a Matchless and sidecar fetched sixty-one guineas, and really was a bargain according to that day's prices.' Copies of both these articles may be found in the history file together with other photocopied press cuttings and contemporary advertisements.
After the war's end this Matchless outfit was sold, and on 3rd January 1919 was registered for the road for the first time (as 'FX 4289') to one Edward Foster in Dorchester (copy registration record on file). Nothing is known of its subsequent history until the current owner purchased 'FX 4289' in 1998. Being a member of The Great War Society Living History Group, as well as a time-served mechanical craftsman and professional engineer, he decided to return the Matchless to its original military specification, a task aided by the fact that the previous owner had already purchased a suitable Vickers machine gun and begun the restoration. The vendor reports that the machine's remarkably original condition suggested that it must have been dry stored for at least 60 years. The rear mudguard, exhaust pipe, stands, rear mudguard, rack and number plates are original, as are the frame, JAP engine, gearbox, wheel and forks. The spokes and tyres have been replaced, as has the front mudguard, while the saddle has been recovered in leather. The Jones magneto has been overhauled by Dave Lindsley, who reckoned it was one of the best magnetos he had ever seen.
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| The armor plating is nice - for the gunner! |
The Vickers machine gun was made at Maxim's original factory at Crayford in 1917. It is deactivated but is cockable, and has moving parts as per the early deactivation specification (certificate on file). The gun is mountable for forward and rearward firing, plus it can be located in an anti-aircraft mount at two different heights. The gun mounts, ammunition boxes, A-A mounts and shield plus the ammunition box carrier have all been accurately reproduced by the current owner, based on originals. The spare wheel is fully interchangeable. Rebuilt with new valves, valve guides and springs, the 85.5x85mm 976cc 8hp JAP engine is stamped 'war prophet' on top of the crankcases. There is no corrosion or pitting of the aluminium, and the cast iron barrel fins are good. An original Sphinx spark plug is fitted.
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| At the Bovington Tank Museum play day |
The Matchless outfit has been shown at Bovingdon Tank Museum 'tank-fests' plus several other prestigious military and commemorative events, and has often carried three men plus the gun and ammunition with ease. It has also featured in various publications. 'FX 4289' is the only known Russian-order Matchless-JAP surviving from the Great War period, and one of only three such machine-gun outfits in the UK, the others being Clyno combinations owned by museums."
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