I have different plans for drawing on this sphere but the effect of rotating (with arrow keys) while drawing is fun. Spherical etch-a-sketch.

I've got a new small, single-purpose screen section in my office area and wanted to document what's running, practical lessons learned, and some questions still unanswered.

Custom clock (not a screen), time-block visualizer, and camera-linked photo slideshow.

Camera and slideshow

A few months ago I built a large bookcase for the guest room + office. Then I decided that the lower half would be better utilized as a dresser.

The final (for now)

I partially disassembled the dresser and then replaced the front and the knob. This saved me from needing to make and fit drawer boxes. The old sides are still visible (that's how the dimensions happened to work out).

Embedding search now active on this very blog:

• Home woodworking DIY
• Embeddings
• Maps

I wanted my dock laptop to feel more like furniture - maybe nostalgia for the 'family room computer' from when I was a kid.

The box

It did feel different! But not too long after I went a pretty different direction for the room (less screen) and moved it down into the basement.

I wanted to document some of the work I've been doing at our house. I put up a bench seat + shelves + a sort-of sideboard in the living room in December. And I finally got our artwork up in a gallery wall a little after that.

Bench with custom dog cubbies and bookshelves. It's since gotten a cushion

The sideboard somewhat organized.

I was reading about using random selection of proportional tickets to schedule CPU tasks and wanted to try probabilistically selecting pixel colors. This effect was interesting but I think I was hoping for more structure or more of a feel like a physical process. Will keep exploring.

WIP booklog

Making another custom spotify interface - focused on surfacing 6 random albums from a collection I've put together.

Working on a book log, with multiple short entries per book.

Returning to the winamp skin shuffler connected to Spotify.

Neovim as window manager preview

I recorded a video of my current Neovim + Niri setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCbwL1iRWXk

Testing out printing little foldable music boxes with the barcodes. Fun to try and decide on the dimensions - I'd really like a spine.

Also not sure what I want to do for structure. I put a cardboard in one of these - I bet I could cut up some scrap 1/2" plywood to use as blanks...

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:

1. Webcam to avatar on canvas

Webcam to avatar on canvas

More paint tests with the projector and touch frame.

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).