This 1973 Jeep Commando with a dual-barrel 308 cu. inch engine was my first car. In 1988 shortly after my parents divorce, my mom left Seattle and left her Jeep on the side of the road. She called and told me where it was and later sent me a receipt in which she stated that she had sold it to me for $1. The brakes were gone and so that got fixed first. Then I spent the next two years learning how to work on cars because everything broke on it! It had a lot of power and it was a light yellow and I loved it. It got 14 mpg if i had just tuned it up and it got more like 10 mpg usually. Gas was $1 a gallon.
I remember driving this thing intimately. I remember the way the steering wheel felt. I can hear The Church’s Starfish tape that I played over and over again in this car. I remember driving my brother to school. I remember driving Jenny Hansen around.
Jenny Hansen took this picture with her beautiful hasselblad. We had gone out to Enumclaw, which is where she grew up and we found a field and drove around in it. Through a good part of high school, I had a really hardcore mullet, but you can see I have a rather 80’s new wave cut going here.
We spent a lot of time in the darkroom (a converted closet) messing around with photography. My grandpa had taught me how to use a darkroom, but working with Jenny locked the passion for photography into my life.
Here is a scan of the original photo. I used this photo for photogamer challenge #7
Every week we feel like this is the best photogamer challenge ever. How do we top ourselves every week, we don’t know, but get ready for some fun!
1. Play “Rock Paper Scissors” with someone and take a picture of the game. Get your own hand in the photo! Bonus points for winning. (tag: rockpaperscissors)
2. Take a photo of yourself with an old photo of yourself. (tag: oldphoto)
3. Walk 100 steps and take a picture of from that 100th step. Bonus points if you geotag it! (tag: 100steps)
4. Take a close up shot of a video or computer game. Show us the pixels! (tag: pixels)
5. Find something in public that is less than 6 inches tall and document it. Go low! (tag: low)
Bonus: Go find an old school photobooth and get a photo taken. Bonus points for having more than 3 people in the booth! (tag: photobooth)
Rules:
- All photos must be new - taken after challenge is posted and before end of day Sunday
- Post any/all photos to the group and tag appropriately (photogamer plus whatever tags are listed below)
- You must complete five shots in order to post to the Winner’s Circle
Post your photos to our Flickr photogamer group.
Participate in our Challenge #7 Winner’s Circle.
You’ve got to have all your photos shot by midnight, April 1, 2007! That’s no April fools joke either! (Although it is one of our favorite holidays!
Here is the challenge #7 Cheat Sheet.
Print the pic out or download the pdf and print that out! Or, make your own and take a picture of it!
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In this podcast I show how to make this little kit which is a hardware version of a computer program. In this game, little lights die if they are crowded or lonely and new ones come to life if there is the right amount of parents around it!
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Here are some photos of the kit and instructions of the game of life all wrapped up in a pdf. Link
You can buy the kit here: Link
Check it out on wikipedia here: Link
Try out a fun software version here: Link
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Go forth to photogamer and find the weekend challenges, then go out and shoot them! - Link
Photogamer has been really great lately, photogamers have really stepped it up and are taking fantastic photographs to meet the challenges!
Update: winners announced, go check them out!
In this special edition of the Weekend Project Podcast, Bre Pettis of Make: Magazine brings special guest Joe Grand to the podcast for the Awesome Electronics Workshop. Joe is a hardware hacker and shows you two simple projects to get you started programming with the basic stamp. Make an LED blink and make a little speaker to produce cellphone music.
If you download our programs and upload them to your own basic stamp you can make your own LED blink!
We’ve created a special easter egg in the form of a special medley of music in the rtttl cellphone ringtone program for your piezo buzzer to pump out of your microcontroller. What wacky tunes are on there? You can only find out if you upload the program to your basic stamp!
The programs are both zipped up here. Make sure to check out the pdf too!
Here’s an mp4 that plays on pretty much everything. Here’s a 3gp and 3g2 for people who like to watch on their phone! Of course if you subscribe in itunes, the videos and accompanying pdf get downloaded automatically for you, no muss no fuss. You can browse all the Make: videos on blip.tv or on the weekend projects page at your leisure! - Subscribe Link
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Joe Grand drew up this schematic out to go with our first Awesome Electronics Workshop.
You can also get these schematics in itunes as a pdf. Since it’s a schematic and a pdf podcast, I declare it a schematicast!
Here’s a pic of the basic stamp hooked up with a piezo buzzer for the ringtone project. There is a secret song medley embedded into the basic stamp program, can you name those tunes?
Download the programs for these projects - Link
Here are some links that will help you with this project!
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