Testing out a barcode scanner as a way to play albums (through Spotify in this case). Wondering if this is a way to bridge from tangibility of physical media to flexibility of digital.
Working rough player scanner. TODO: I accidentally mirror-flipped this video
Spotify IDs are kind of long to do directly so switched to sequential IDs and a lookup
Four recent experiments:
Webcam to avatar on canvas
Painting with an IR touch frame, projector, and http://image-paint.constraint.systems
paintbrush
ball
I got the projector sized to the IR touch frame. I made a desk inset for it and a wood overlay to sit on top.
The overlay makes the section non-interactive (it had to be an overlay bc the IR beams need to get from one-side to the other).
I ordered this IR touch screen frame not knowing what to expect and am so far pleasantly surprised. I need to map the projector to it but touch detection seems pretty good.
New on Constraint Systems:
Cosine - embed and hash any text and see its nearest neighbors
https://cosine.constraint.systems
Working on a stripped down "embed anything and see its neighbors" prototype.
Need to sort out some type errors though
Notes from putting together artist info display. This is with raspberry pi OS lite (no desktop). I ended up doing 32 bit but maybe could have done 64.
in .xinitrc, which automatically runs when x session starts. Some of this specific for this monitor.
Album art and artist info display
I've been listening to a lot of playlists lately and wanting a way to learn more about the currently playing artist without pulling out my phone. I put together a little raspberry pi setup to sit on our shelves and display info about the current playing artist.
I think this would be a cool fit for coffee shops or communal workspaces. Let me know if you're interested in getting something similar up and I'll try and help.
I made a web player for the Herb Sundays playlist series.
It's focused on surfacing a random playlist from the series. I've been using it to put something on in the morning. It's nice to have hand-curated playlists with some intention to them.
Stitched together some Neovim autocmds with Niri window commands so that the app window is bound to the special "app" buffer position and size. One step closer to NeovimOS.
Thinking about reconfiguring my window manager setup to have an always-open terminal on the left. To serve as doc and navigation maybe.
I'm realizing part of the challenge of configuring is terminal + neovim is sort of its own window manager on its own - with splits and open fuzzy-findable buffers and everything - maybe there's benefits to having that be one always-present session, and it's actually browser and application windows that are more ephemeral.
An apriltag color-picker where x=red, y=green, rotation=blue. A freeform physical slider feels interesting
Also did a 3 card one - different tags all get IDs which makes me think of doing some sort of weird physical variable assignment thing.