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Solid Chairmat

by on Mar.29, 2009, under General

Chairmat - SectionMy old chair mat died, the cheap plastic didn’t hold up well under the constant stress of my constant, shifting weight.

What to do?

Build one.

Using our friendly less-than-seven-dollar waferboard, I cut, beveled, and sanded it to fit custom into the space my old one used to fill.

Add some selective sanding to smooth it and add an abstract design…

Here it it:

Chairmat - Full, upright

The hard floor is sooo nice to roll on.

Also, unlike what you would expect, the floor isn’t too bad on the bare feet, but YMMV.

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A Foot Interface

by on Feb.16, 2009, under Interface, Technology

So here’s what I got:

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The whole thing plugs in via USB and acts like a regular joystick – the four pedals are four different axises on the controller.

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And the whole thing is pegged onto a circutboard from a regular controller.

Edit: FYI, the foot pedals I found at a thrift store. After tearing away the unwanted/unneeded parts, they were screwed to a piece ‘o wood. Some buttons were purchased and, after making the appropriate holes, they were also attached.

The use of an existing controller had some disadvantages: the board I used has a hardware dead zone that makes no sense with pedals and makes them pretty much unusable.

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A Work in Progress

by on Feb.11, 2009, under Interface

Work in Progress - Foot Controller

More on this later.

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Too many screens

by on Jan.24, 2009, under Interface, Technology

This isn’t exactly brand new, but hey, I thought I’d throw it up anyway.

Many Monitors

I guess I have an obsession for many motitors and screen space.

What you see:

  • Left 2 monitors: laptop and its second head.
  • Topmost monitor (on the shelf): tablet laptop.
  • Main 4 monitors: 22″ widescreens.  Two are connected to  a GeForce 8800 GTX (lower) and two are connected to a GeForce 9800 GT.  The combined resolution of just these four monitors alone is over 7 million pixels.
  • Mouse: Logitech G5: one of the best mouses out there.
  • Linksys router: Running DD-WRT this acts as a wireless network bridge to the network upstairs, where the modem is.
  • Keyboard/nanoKontrol/nanoPad – Some misc. MIDI devices for a sound project I’ve been working on.

Using Synergy I can control all three computers with one mouse/keyboard.

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Me too – get a blog, and a site

by on Jan.23, 2009, under General

So.

I do web development for a living.  And I don’t have a website.

It’s time I get one.

Here it is.

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