So, I’ve started playing code tennis with John Pett. It was all his idea, and although it’s taking a while (imagine slow mo tennis played in space) as we are both reasonably busy people, so far we have this basic image to show from it! It’s a relatively crud model of the solar system that has the barest nod to reality.

Check the sketch here

PS. OOps! Looks like I left my next return of serve vaguely hidden in there. Meh.

I had to make a mega cute logo for a client, and to counterbalance it and get the sickly taste out of my mind, I made a spoooooky version for halloween.

So, I got myself a Tumblr account while I wait for my Dropular invite to arrive, so’s I can just bung crap out there that I haven’t done myself that I think is fancy pants.

So, my friends and neighbours are in a excellent band called Another Rhythm Jesus, and they asked me to make a poster for them, and gave me free range! Wheeeeee!

I was put in touch with John Pett by my brother, Tom. John has a lot of lovely stuff on his site, and is interested in Processing. It rekindled my love of the little program, so I thought I’d start posting sketches, starting with this one (click the image to run the applet):

Well, I re-installed everything on my macbook, and trawling through my backups, I found a picture I drew when I was hunting ants in an apartment in Spain. I was obsessed for the whole fortnight.

…so I thought I’d do a little colour sketch of a sketchbook scan. Hrmpf!

Well, aaaages ago, Amy and I designed some fabric to be printed by Spoonflower that Amy was going to make into lovely quilts for our baby, Evie. Here some piccies, from design to realization! Woot.

The only fly in the ointment was our glorious government charging us AS MUCH AGAIN AS THE FABRIC COST IN IMPORT DUTY. Thanks guys.

My friend Oli Shaw sent me this video. I did a bit of a wee through laughter.

My Arduino POV Machine

Well I just love my Arduino, but haven’t really made anything with it, other than a series of blinky lights and a machine that makes a godawful lot of noise. Then I found this great site and it made me want to make an Arduino POV machine of my own! Thanks Carlito for doing all the hard work! 

The only trouble is that to make the words, you need to turn every led on and off at the right time, and that involved a lot of graph paper, pens, typing, swearing and mistakes. So I decided to make a little flash movie where you can draw what you want to appear, and then copy and paste all the little ones and zeros into your Arduino sketch and that’s it! You can find the flash movie here.

Oh, and finally, my slightly adapted sketch is here. At the minute, the data is set to read ARDUINO.