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My blogspot site is no longer updated. Most of the posts here are archived at www.srimech.com along with new content.

Wednesday 30 April 2008

Asus Eee 900


Hooray! Despite making me jump through a few hoops to verify my identity, Dabs came through and delivered my Eee 900 today. I'm posting from it right now - the keyboard will take a bit of getting used to but it's a lot easier to type on than my previous UMPC. It'd be hard to give a negative review to something I've just spent 330 quid on but it is very good so far. It's a lot better built than I'd been expecting - it may look like a toy but it's very solid. Next step - apt-get emacs and pygame.

Thursday 17 April 2008

Toaster video


I've been playing with my digital camera, trying to make a better video for the turbo toaster. The results aren't perfect, but still better than I expected for about an hour's work. The title and fade in was done with Kdenlive, which I found really easy to use. Pity that it doesn't seem to anti-alias the text properly when fading to the video clip. I brought up the colour a bit using mencoder with a few filter options. Anyway, there you go, flying toast in full motion video.

Friday 11 April 2008

From the archives

I've uploaded a few of my older posts from my wordpress installation - the LED message board modifications, the event report from Robot Wars 2003, and the Turbo toaster.