Doing some tests with our new RED Scarlet-X camera rig, I shot this little clip of my remote-control helicopter. Turns out our white infinity isn’t as infinite as we thought!
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Proto-AVR – it’s better than Arduino
Posted on Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
The Arduino development platform has been getting a massive amount of attention lately, being used in thousands of projects all over the internet. But the library used to program these devices is quite inefficient, so a friend of mine has started re-implementing it in a new project, Proto-AVR. At the moment, it implements most of the Arduino functions, but is three times more space efficient.
I think that source packages are coming soon. He’s eventually going to have custom hardware, which is pretty cool too.
No longer accepting comments
Posted on Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
I tend to get spam a lot more than actual comments, and even when you do get comments, it’s difficult to have a productive discussion on a blog… Therefore, no more comments, but if you want you can send me an email, or tweet a message @stephengentle if you want to respond.
New Site
Posted on Friday, July 24th, 2009
Over the last month or two I’ve been re-designing and recoding my website, and today I changed over to the new codebase and design. It’s a lot brighter than the old site, and has a far better photo gallery. There are still some parts missing from the site, like the production section and most of the development part, but I think that generally it’s far better than the old one.
RED Scarlet and Epic: Everything Has Changed
Posted on Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Well, Jim’s up to it again, saying once again that “Everything has changed“, and on their previous massive announcement: “The 13th was insignificant…“.
Well, it now it looks like December 3 will bring another big change to the DSMC system, but I doubt it could possibly be as huge as their last one!
New RED Scarlet Camera Pictures Released!
Posted on Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Well, there’s still about eight hours to go until the big announcement, but RED’s Jim Jannard has posted some new pictures of both the RED Scarlet 3K camera, and the 5K RED Epic. Like all the images posted since the redesign, they are small, really close up, and probably just leading speculation away from the truth. Some of these look like parts of the new cameras, but the first one looks like it could be of a new lens – possibly indicating that Scarlet has interchangeable lenses?
Still, it remains to be seen what RED come up with, and I, like most people who have been constantly refreshing REDUser and ScarletUser for weeks, can’t wait!
All images in this post are copyright © Red Digital Cinema Company. Full size images can be seen at Jim’s post on RedUser
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New Site for Symmetry
Posted on Monday, September 8th, 2008
I recently made a new website for my operating system project, Symmetry. The old site I was using for it was basically just the default WordPress theme with a slightly different header image. The new site is a completely custom theme that I made, and I think it is a lot simpler and cleaner.
I also did a bit of re-branding as well. Although the project has retained its logo, I made up a new name for it – Symmetry. I had been wanting to change the name for a while, but never got around to it until I decided to sign up for free Git hosting at Gitorious. It was a bit of a spur of the moment thing – I needed to put in a project name, so I thought for a few seconds and came up with Symmetry. It fits in with the old logo, and the old name can be used as an abbreviation – Symmetry Operating System (sos).
Updated Blog
Posted on Sunday, April 6th, 2008
I have updated the blog to the newest version of WordPress recently. In fact, I am running the bleeding edge version from the Subversion repository. So now when I need to upgrade, all that should be required is SSHing into the server and doing an svn up in the directory.
You’ll also notive that I moved the blog out of its own subdomain, and into the main site. I think its better this way, and makes it easier to keep all the images and media together.
And finally, I hope you like the new design! I have been working on the new site for a while now, and I think that it is much improved from the old version.
Development System back up
Posted on Thursday, March 27th, 2008
I actually fixed my computer a day or two after I broke it, but I haven’t got round to posting since then. Anyway, it’s a very good reminder of why having your home directory on a separate partition is so helpful – it saves having to reconfigure everything. You still have to install apps that aren’t installed by default, but it could be much worse.
Anyway, what happened was a dependency issue with glibc… Apparently it happened to other people as well, but was fixed fairly quickly – so I’m a lot more cautious now. If there’s an important part of the system in the update list, I don’t update for a day or two now – just in case.
New Monitor
Posted on Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Tiring of my 15 inch CRT monitor, I recently went and picked up a new 22″ flat panel from Harvey Norman. It is very good, especially considering the price – just $357. The model is HG216D – I got the black model, which matches my computer case (which I painted black last year). The jump in resolution and screen real-estate is really great, and it makes development a lot easier. Now switching between my text editor, terminal and file manager and web browser is a lot easier – I can lay the terminal, editor and file manager on one desktop and the web browser on another (instead of either having to put them all on separate desktops, or have windows under other ones). Even switching from the browser is easier – I don’t have to have my browser maximized now, so I can switch desktops by rolling the mouse wheel on the desktop.
It’s got an HDMI input, which is really cool – but unfortunately we don’t have any HD sources to plug it in to… So for now, we just play HD video through the computer – which still looks great
