Wow, most excellent all round tuco!
Wow, most excellent all round tuco!
Dude, you sell those. I would buy one. Congrats!
Very cool Tuco - and nice job on the video as well, it was fun to see all the steps. Thanks for sharing!
What microprocessor did you use?
Originally Posted by Flynnie
Thanks. The video was a lot of work. More so than I expected.
Thanks. Sorry, it was too much custom work to build any for sale.
I used a Soekris Net4801 general communications board. One I use to build my firewall/routers with. It has an embedded AMD SC1100 CPU. It is running OpenBSD for an operating system. It also has a Senao NL-2511MP Plus mini-PCI wireless card running basically as a wireless access point. An XML RPC server also supports remote control via a client application on, say, a laptop. Other services such as OpenSSH is also available for logging into it as well. And failing any of that you can connect a serial console to it to gain access.
My reaction varies between awe-filled admiration and the thought that, "some people just have way too much time on their hands."
Seriously, that's awesome. I have some familiarity with electronics from being a ham for decades and now a network engineer, but that would be way beyond me. So I just bought a Jobo.
For some unknown reason, having the darkslide in place in the holder temporarily reduces the film's ASA -- pretty much close to zero, I believe. When you pull out the darkslide, the film's ASA snaps right back up to 100 or 400 or whatever you have set on your meter. Almost magical... But I do know from personal experience that an hour exposure of the night sky will not yield star trails if you don't pull the darkslide out...even on clear nights!...Mystery solved. I was wondering why that sheet turned out blank....
Wonderful device. I enjoyed seeing how you bent the plastic of the case, and how the final designed morphed from the prototype.
Vaughn
Someone noted to me that the machine agitates too fast. Wrong. In the video you can see I programmed in 5 agitation profiles during the software scene. And for PMK Pyro you want a "brisk" agitation profile of around 3 inversions within 5 seconds every 15 seconds which has been working for me for the last 18 years.
Mary with Cloud, Portland
Last Light, Haystack Rock, Oregon Coast
http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/
Nice. Which haystack rock is that? It doesn't look the one at Cannon Beach.
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