Re: [time-nuts] Different breed of time nuttery
A triumph of matter over mind. In a message dated 24/02/2014 04:35:21 GMT Standard Time, dmend...@gmail.com writes: This is a different breed of time nuttery than usual in this list but i think that at least some of you will enjoy it: http://www.behance.net/gallery/FLUX-1440/2420150 Found it at hack a day Daniel ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Different breed of time nuttery
Really impressive would be to have it create the patterns that make the numeric display out of only several feet of slowly moving rope connected as a loop... but that would require some thinking, rather than just a brute force approach. -Chuck Harris gandal...@aol.com wrote: A triumph of matter over mind. In a message dated 24/02/2014 04:35:21 GMT Standard Time, dmend...@gmail.com writes: This is a different breed of time nuttery than usual in this list but i think that at least some of you will enjoy it: http://www.behance.net/gallery/FLUX-1440/2420150 Found it at hack a day Daniel ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Different breed of time nuttery
On 2/23/14 8:11 PM, Daniel Mendes wrote: This is a different breed of time nuttery than usual in this list but i think that at least some of you will enjoy it: http://www.behance.net/gallery/FLUX-1440/2420150 Found it at hack a day An enormous amount of work went into painting the pattern on that rope too. A cleverer approach would have been if there were multiple shorter rope loops... Or geared ropes. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Different breed of time nuttery
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Daniel Mendes dmend...@gmail.com wrote: This is a different breed of time nuttery than usual in this list but i think that at least some of you will enjoy it: http://www.behance.net/gallery/FLUX-1440/2420150 Found it at hack a day That is just ... cool. But I thought of a way to do the same thing without the rope and mechanical parts. I figured I can replace the ropes with rows of LEDs. Then I can turn on the LEDs to simulate the white rope and turn them off to simulate the black marks. Now you don't need the bearings and stepper motor. Pretty neat idea, huh! -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 706 Flightline Drive Spring Branch, TX 78070 br...@lloyd.com +1.916.877.5067 ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Different breed of time nuttery
So that is what string theory is all about! Who knew? Tom Holmes, N8ZM -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of gandal...@aol.com Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 4:02 AM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Different breed of time nuttery A triumph of matter over mind. In a message dated 24/02/2014 04:35:21 GMT Standard Time, dmend...@gmail.com writes: This is a different breed of time nuttery than usual in this list but i think that at least some of you will enjoy it: http://www.behance.net/gallery/FLUX-1440/2420150 Found it at hack a day Daniel ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Different breed of time nuttery
In message 530b5258.4060...@erols.com, Chuck Harris writes: Really impressive would be to have it create the patterns that make the numeric display out of only several feet of slowly moving rope connected as a loop... but that would require some thinking, rather than just a brute force approach. Nah... Just run it through a turing machine which counts the seconds/minutes whatever, and you're golden: http://aturingmachine.com/ -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Different breed of time nuttery
On 2/24/14 6:08 AM, Chuck Harris wrote: Really impressive would be to have it create the patterns that make the numeric display out of only several feet of slowly moving rope connected as a loop... but that would require some thinking, rather than just a brute force approach. It's art, after all.. Maybe the huge pile of rope is part of the art? Like the threads of life that the 3 fates decide to cut. Or if the rope/thread gets tangled and jammed. And the fact that the machine cannot go backwards. There is a mention in the write up of the whole order out of chaos thing, too. The artist has some other interesting things.. the dot matrix graffiti printer, for instance. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Different breed of time nuttery
I think the realization that it takes thousands of feet of bit-serial crafted rope, is part of the art. Just IMHO. Something like the core rope fixed memory of the 60's, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory Many industrial machines internally still emulate the infinite paper tape loop concept from 50+ years ago when CNC was new. Young guys who have never programmed that way may not appreciate how programming with zero cleverness is in itself clever (making it far easier to predict performance etc. even though the performance is going to be low.) Tim N3QE On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2/23/14 8:11 PM, Daniel Mendes wrote: This is a different breed of time nuttery than usual in this list but i think that at least some of you will enjoy it: http://www.behance.net/gallery/FLUX-1440/2420150 Found it at hack a day An enormous amount of work went into painting the pattern on that rope too. A cleverer approach would have been if there were multiple shorter rope loops... Or geared ropes. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Different breed of time nuttery
The really scary thing is that this is some sort of postgraduate thesis project examined by a swag of learned doctors, complete with the artistic waffle of What It All Means. Tom Harris celephi...@gmail.com On 24 February 2014 15:11, Daniel Mendes dmend...@gmail.com wrote: This is a different breed of time nuttery than usual in this list but i think that at least some of you will enjoy it: http://www.behance.net/gallery/FLUX-1440/2420150 Found it at hack a day Daniel ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Different breed of time nuttery
Accuracy depends on the stepper motor driver :-) A really neat conceit! Don Daniel Mendes This is a different breed of time nuttery than usual in this list but i think that at least some of you will enjoy it: http://www.behance.net/gallery/FLUX-1440/2420150 Found it at hack a day Daniel ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. -- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -George Bernard Shaw Dr. Don Latham AJ7LL Six Mile Systems LLC 17850 Six Mile Road POB 134 Huson, MT, 59846 VOX 406-626-4304 Skype: buffler2 www.lightningforensics.com www.sixmilesystems.com ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
