Deciding to do OpenSauce was a very impulse driven decision. I really loved the first one last year in 2023 and was amazed at all of the wonderfully creative people that I met. So I knew I wanted to go again. But this time I decided to push myself a bit and try exhibiting some… Continue reading Exhibiting at Open Sauce 2024 A Retrospective
The maker faire is coming back to mare island this year in 2024 and I just realized I forgot to post my previous experience from 2023! Oops! After a considerable hiatus the Bay Area maker faire found a new home on mare island in 2023. It was an amazing first comeback leaning into the stem… Continue reading Maker Faire 2023: A Mare Island Adventure
I was really happy with the original Pieca design at the beginning. It was boxy and quirky but it made it easy to add all the necessary electronics for a Raspberry Pi camera. But as I kept using it one big problem became apparent, the lens mount was not going to last… After taking it… Continue reading The New Raspberry Pi Pieca Camera for Leica Lenses
The ClockworkPi uConsole is one of the most polished handheld raspberry pi computers on the market. From its metal shell to the driver software it just works right out of the box. Well after you assemble it first! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95cCjfx3EHw I recorded a quick video of the process and was surprised at how well everything went… Continue reading Building the ClockworkPi uConsole
Taking pictures and geeking out over cameras was one of my first hobbies starting with an old Olympus point and shoot, I then moved up to a DSLR upgrading as new and exciting technology became accessible to my summer job budget. I then got the opportunity to buy a Leica M8 and was immediately hooked… Continue reading Pieca: A Raspberry Pi Camera System for Leica M Mount Lenses
What is Aerochrome film? It is an analog film stock that is sensitive to infrared light and uses false-color reversal to express infrared light as a visible color. Infrared (IR) light is invisible to the human eye but is all around us and be felt as heat. All objects in the universe emit some level… Continue reading Emulating Kodak Aerochrome Infrared Film with Python Image Processing
I became really interested in the capabilities of the nRF24L01 radio modules due to their insanely low price ~$2 in quantity, compared to something like a LoRa module ~$25. So you can basically have 10 for the price of one. Now I am not saying these are comparable devices, since the LoRa devices can be… Continue reading Measuring the Range of nRF24L01 Modules with CircuitPython
It's that time of year again! the GNURadio Conference is back, in-person and virtual as a hybrid conference this year! This conference is centered around the GNURadio software and its different aspects and community. Focusing on software-defined radio processing and its applications. Each year the conference is held at a different location in the US,… Continue reading GNURadio GRCon 2021
Ignoring whether NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens are useful or valuable it is an emerging market that combines art and code so why not try making your own with python. The process of creating an NFT will not be done in python only the image generation. I decided to create some pixel art NFTs mostly because… Continue reading NFT Pixel Art Generated with Python
Doing color correction in a program like Divinci Resolve we can see these interesting plots based on your loaded image, like the one below. These are called color scopes, they are primarily used to identify the pixel colors as you traverse the image from left to right. They are useful for photographers and videographers to… Continue reading Python Color Scope
