James Brown

@ancientjames
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Now you may say, James, did you know that faster computers exist? But I like embedding a cheap SBC. When I abandon this project and move on to something else, I want it frozen in a state that Just Works. I don't want to turn it on a year from now only to wait 30 minutes while it enshittifies itself.
It took a surprising amount of effort to achieve this crappy result. It's rendering 4000 views simultaneously per frame (effectively 120000 fps), on a Pi 4. Complicated by no viewport arrays or layered rendering support, and clipping in the fragment shader added seconds to render time.
People watch my videos and think, well this guy's clearly an idiot.
I’m always pleased when Slack appears in the logs. Again, it’s a walled garden and I have no more context than that. But it’s still nice to know that somewhere, somehow, I’m wasting some company’s time.
Back when the web was just the web, I would occasionally make unexpectedly popular Content, and it was fun to look through the referrer logs, see where people were coming from, browse around in those communities and so on. With the youtube stuff, 'external' is only ever a few percent, and within that it's basically 'discord' which could be anything. But it's still quite fun seeing little clusters of comments from people with the same angle on it, and trying to work out their thing.
I switched to a 0.2 mm nozzle and had another go at the diffuser for this led matrix. It works really well - the front is a single layer, and behind that is exposed infill with the same pitch as the panel.

Here's another Janky Display Device Build Video

https://makertube.net/w/3cNvxH4xNjdnn2z7TYS8xP

(Also available with adverts, if you want to feed the algorithm and to a certain extent me: https://youtu.be/YbxsYhTjYFI )

Multiview Stereo Projection

PeerTube

And here's the correct version of that video, without the horrible jump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK78WLYWNAs

Multiview Stereo Fog Projection

YouTube
What I see when this is spinning up and gradually locking in to sync: Looks glitchy; looks glitchy; looks cool and glitchy; thomp! Magical projection appears!
What you see when I film it: Looks glitchy; looks glitchy; looks just really awful and glitchy.