Pop Music
The KLF were two British chaps who exposed the mass sphexishness of the music world, fired machine gun blanks at award show audiences, made and set alight a million quid, and wrote a wonderful book to help you follow in their footsteps.
Phrontist.org
Electronic Goban
Went to HacDC and became a charter member tonight. Looks like a pretty groovy group and a very nice space with the requisite piles of technological ephemera.
I’m pitching the idea of developing an electronic goban, which I’ve described on the HacDC wiki.
Blink Test
So there isn’t much I can do on the VU meter project until I get a hold of an oscilloscope. The next logical step would be to design the envelope follower that the comparator will receive input from, but doing this “blind” would be difficult. In the mean time I thought I’d check that the relay I’m using can actually switch as fast as I need it to (without burning up) and get a feeling for what rapidly flashed incandescent bulbs look like.
A Vast VU Meter
This is Patterson Office Tower (POT) on The University of Kentucky campus. It’s home to a small cafe/mezzanine, an obscure mathematics library, and the offices of all the professors and bureaucrats who don’t fit in the endearingly inefficient buildings elsewhere on campus. If, as civil engineers like to say, architecture is the art of wasting space, it’s oft-scorned brutalist style seems to be a good example of what would happen if we eschewed the discipline altogether.