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I made a short processing script that draws sine curves and uses a glsl blur filter to add a neon effect

To create this effect you need a processing sketch drawing the curves and a glsl filter that adds the blur effect.

This is another animation I made with the blender bTrace addon.

you can download the blend file here

Back in my Atari computing days I was fascinated by the endless pattern generators that generated never repeating complex patterns on my screen. This is a processing sketch that recreates this effect

click on the sketch to generate a new pattern

I created a new small processing sketch, cause I had to wait for someone and there was nothing else todo - well at least nothing else that I would have liked to do or that would have fit into that timeslot. Somehow this blogpost starts to get far more complicated than I intended it to be ...

I think you should just click on the image and rotate the rectangles ...

When it comes to DIY projects one rule that ALLWAYS applies is that it takes longer than originally planned :-/

I´m currently debugging the radio module for my raspberry pi based retro-car-radio project and I realized that debugging software is far easier that debugging a hardware module. I already found out that it´s a stupid idea to shorten some of the coppertraces by making the circuit board touch the metal housing of the radio and I forgot to solder in a resistor.

I also found out that it´s a bad idea to accidentally remove some of the smd parts of a raspberry pi (RIP) and that the sd card holder of a pi is not very stable :-/

currently I´m trying to find a replacement part for a broken variable resistor - but theeeeeen .... nearly there, really, this time for sure, what could possible go wrong?

Stay tuned :-)

I just noticed that the last addition to my monster gallery where from 2011. So I arranged all the monsters my friends and family members have sent me since then

Yesterday I started mounting the components for my raspberry pi based retro car radio into the housing of the blaupunkt radio from the 60ties.

And I learned a lot - the hard way :-)

• For example that USB cables need an astonishing amount of space - even when folded and tied down with cable binders.
• USB-connectors are really, really, REALLY large - even if they are called micro usb.
• Drilling holes into ferromagnetical materials is a bad idea when you have two small speakers and a magnetic screwdriver laying on your desk - even it looks very funny

So there will be a unplanned part2 of the hardware session after I found shorter USB cables preferably with smaller connectors :-/

Today I soldered the radio module for my rapsberry pi based car radio. This was the last soldering/electronic challenge for this project now I only need to finish the software (= easy) and the hardware problems (= somewhat outside of my comfort zone :-))

The audio board consists of a AR1010 breakout board from sparkfun that connects via i2c and a simple preamplifier for the radio signal. The 3 connector on the right side go to the analog audio out of the raspberry pi.

Today I finished the interface module for my raspberry pi based retro car radio. The module interfaces the buttons, the variable resistor and a RGB-led using an ATMega 328p running an arduino firmware.

This is my day 30 project for 30daysOfCreativity but I think I will need to extend my 30 days a bit so I can finish this project :-)

I have been drawing shapes for my Day 29 project for 30dayOfCreativity