This is an awesome arduino project. Steve Hoefe made a controller that unlocks your door with your own secret knock. Using an piezo speaker, a tiny gear reduction motor, and an Arduino and PVC pipe he can record his own secret knock and use that same knock to unlock his door. Very cool
Steve Hoefe Blog
Keeping on the theme of Tilt-Shift photography, Keith Loutit is a photographer that is creating huge interest in tilt-shift again. Loutit is an Australian photographer who gained a lot of interest with his “Bathtub” series of the Sydney area. He uses the timelapse technique to turn the city into “miniature wonderlands”. His videos are really amazing and they really create the sense of small little worlds with people seeming like worker ants rushing around. He is doing something original with his work here, something unusual and different. We see the world from a different angle by ”challenging people’s perceptions of scale, and helping the viewer to distance themselves from places they know well”. I really love his work and the renewed interest in tilt-shifting that he has created.
You can check out his website here/ and his Vimeo video channel here.
Tilt shift photography is a technique of photography used to have selective focus in an image. Tilt-shift photography was originally used for Architecture and sometimes landscape photography. It has been around for many years so it is nothing new but recently it has been used in a different way. Tilt-shift can also be used to simulate a miniature scene. By having a small depth of field and photographing from a higher angle a city scape can look like a miniature city with miniature people, cars and buildings. Here is an example of some tilt-shit shots. The tilt-shift effect can also be recreated/faked in photoshop and I have some of my own photographs here.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/16/beautiful-examples-of-tilt-shift-photography/
I think this is a strange funny and nice thing to make. Its a popcorn machine that makes popcorn everytime someone tweets about popcorn. It’s a rather unusual idea with cool results. Someone is inputting popcorn into twitter and real popcorn gets outputted somewhere else. I’d like to have this machine
for this idea the guy is doing a very similar idea to what I plan on doing. He is using Processing to code and linking it to flash. Instead of an arduino he is using a Parallax RFID reader which has a built in usb. I’m not sure how it works but it seems to be very similar. For the flash he is using a card to change a picture, which is what I want to do. The site is http://www.jaymatter.com/2009/09/22/parallax-rfid-flash/
I found an extensive post about the Paralax Arduino RFID reader.
Now I finally have an idea that I know is somewhat possible.
I love photography and I love Lomography. Lomography is a type of photography that uses only analogue photographic means. A major part of Lomography is experimentation. With film there is a huge possibility to experiment and mess around and finally come out with some hugely surprising and amazing results. Some of the experimentation techniques and effects are multiple/double exposure, cross-processing, red-scale, multi-lens, fisheye, light-leaks, the list goes on.
My idea is a way of displaying photographs in a different way. When the photographs are displayed the user will be able to add a lomography effect and change how the photo will look. I want to use an RFID reader to change the photography and some other method to change the effect.
Here are some of my photos that include Multi-lens, Double exposure, Red-scale +fisheye, double exposure + fisheye, Cross-processed + Fisheye, and another Multi-lens.
Well I was going to use this security surveillance program called SecuritySpy for this Guess Who game but not anymore. I wanted to try and incorporate flash with it but to have webcams in flash you need Flash Media Server which cost thousands of euros. I tried a few different ideas to see how I could use flash as the score keeper and how I could have SecuritySpy running in the background but that wasn’t suitable. Also I looked up about having a transparent swf file that filled the entire screen but all these Ideas are either Impossible or too messy.
In short although I liked the idea of Webcam Guess Who, I have scrapped it.
An idea I had was an online game of guess who with people on webcams who would be both the players and also the characters for other peoples games. People would log in and fill out their detail such as sex, hair colour, eye colour, glasses or not, facial hair etc. When they are logged in they would be paired with one other player via the webcam. The characters for the game would be other people on their webcams. These other people would be playing their own games and so on. The two players would be on top and the bottom with all the ‘characters’ in between. The players would then take turns to ask the usual guess who questions. The player then click on a ‘character’ when they are eliminated. An example is below.
If anyone has any idea how to do this it would be great.
Another Idea is to use an RFID tag reader when playing a game of tiddly winks. The reader could be place near the hole in the game board and the ‘winks’ would be the RFID cards so when they go in the hole points would be calculated automatically through a program such as flash. Other things could be triggered instead of score like animations.
