Rory Nugent (of Solar Xylophone fame) has posted his thesis presentation to the Interactive Telecommunications Program, which heavily features BEAM devices. By "building things with a sense of life", he's documenting what we've known for a good while - autonomous devices ("pets") offer unusual interesting relationships. Keep up the good work!
Solar Eclipse at SB
Solarbotics Ltd
August 21, 2017
Today August 21, 2017, we were treated to about 80% solar eclipse. In spite of the smoke, the weather cooperated so we couldn't miss this event.
Pinhole projector boxes were made out of cereal and shipping boxes:
Fancy ones were mounted onto a tripod, and a phone camera recording a time lapse video was taped to the box:
And the huge walk-in pinhole projector was great:
Video of Shadows of the Leaves During the Eclipse
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