Fun

  • What's the world listening to?

    July 8, 2010

    A while back I crafted a Processing sketch that displayed a map of the world and popped up the most popular artist for the country the mouse was hovering over. Bored last night, I decided to give the newish Google Maps API a whirl and see if I could recreate the sketch for the web.

    It uses fxb's javascript-last.fm-api library which made the artist lookup incredibly easy. The whole thing took no more than 2 hours.

    Categories: Fun, Programming, Visualization

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    Processing.js - Playing with particles and transitions

    June 9, 2010

    After having used having used Processing on and off for a couple of years I decided it was time to have a play with Processing.js. Heavily inspired by this I decided to have a play. This is my current "train-project" to keep me busy on my crazy daily commute - expect lots of changes and hopefully some polish sometime soon.

    Oh, you'll need a decent and recent browser (Chrome or Firefox - unfortunately this doesn't work with Safari).

    Categories: Fun, Processing

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    Let's get ghetto [Arduino styleee]

    Sept. 28, 2009

    Over the weekend I went to an 80s themed fancy dress party. A few days before I visited Affleck's Palace in Manchester for some inspiration and saw some old skool ghetto blasters. I thought it'd be brilliant to buy one and go as a Beastie Boy, but these things were expensive. Especially the one with loads of flashing LEDs! I thought "Hang on, I can hack one together using my Arduino kit, and a cardboard box!".

    So I did.

    There's a really rough and ready tutorial over at Instructables and a photo album on Facebook. The code is on Github, and whilst not brilliant, does the job. Oh, there's also a video on Vimeo (it's also embedded below).

    Categories: Arduino, Fun

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    Geek Love!

    Feb. 14, 2009

    Floating hearts heart

    Happy (Saint) Valentine's Day!

    Today I very quickly sketched an animated Valentine's card in Processing :-). The hearts jiggle about in a heart shape and return home only to jiggle about some more every 15 seconds or so.

    Click the heart to start the animation.

    Categories: Fun, Processing

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Something I said

… on Twitter.

  • Rained for the first time since I got here today. Only lasted about 5 minutes though!
  • La Porchetta in Finsbury Park is AMAZING! Awesome goats cheese pizza.
  • There were no more goes in Jenga. We actually reached the physical limits. Believe.
  • Jenganator http://twitpic.com/2lb20s
  • From the @virginmedia Service status page: "Sorry, this service isn't working at the moment." Great.

Something I saw

… and put on flickr.