Half the info you need is in the blog post, the other half is in the comments below. The only trouble I had was iris control, which I couldn’t get…
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Updated my stock “earth in space” scene – my old scene just didn’t stand up in HD. Not perfect – haven’t got the atmosphere looking right yet – but it’s…
Made by Howard Matthews at Push Pictures Music by Poseidon.tv Created in Blender, composited in After Effects Additional modelling by Richie Phillips Additional model credits from BlendSwap: Mixing desk: simonrepp;…
There’s a plugin for Blender that lets you export 3D camera data in a format AE can use – you end up with a camera in AE that moves exactly…
Lots of these Li-Po battery packs on eBay, going for around £12 from various vendors: Nice hand-sized battery pack, with a coax plug and socket on flying leads, and a…
I’m having trouble with our solar set up – lead acid batteries, it turns out, really aren’t ideal for our usage patterns. So I’m buying a big-ass 60Ah lithium battery…
To test the capacity of some rechargeable batteries, I plugged them into a little portable LCD TV via a Turnigy power analyser. The TV has three modes: analogue TV, digital…
So. A new Mac Pro is being birthed as we speak. Got me thinking about the nature of laptop vs desktop computers. My Mac Pro only differs significantly from my…
Right then. The mission: to mount the Hydra’s base station under my desk, which means mounting the EM globe sideways. It’s the bit that generates the magnetic fields that the…