I’m working on The Machine documentary pretty heavily lately and so am always looking for something to help me to not go crazy. I must have clicked on some monome link recently that made me remember that I had a monome kit waiting in my closet.

I soldered it together last night and am trying to figure out how exactly to create the grid of buttons. I have a bunch of lit buttons from an old audio mixing console and I’m trying to figure out if I should replace the lamps in them (not LEDs) or try to go with what I’ve got. They look good as is, they just might burn out after a short while.

I took photos as I was going to see what kind of stop motion animation that would make. So that’s what you’re looking at.

A spreadsheet that I am working on which lists all sorts of information about various cars. This is to give myself some better comparative data while trying to figure out which kind of car to convert (hopefully in the near future).

It’s ridiculous how heavy most cars are these days. Hopefully that will start to go down with the use of composite materials and innovative uses of technology. For example, the Lotus Elise (link is to a great documentary about the creation of the Elise).

MacFuse + Jeff Han Multitouch = Minority Report