It does more than just that, it quickly reblogs posts-it’s very ideal who simply want to reblog posts and not go through the reblog dialog box. Amazing.
3. Copy the resulting number into Google Image Search
4. Click on Search Tools, Type, and choose Animated
5. From the top row of results, save whichever gif you want to loop on a small LCD screen embedded in your future tombstone
6. Reblog and add the image
I got my buttons today! Cut a bunch'o holes in this here foam to get a feel of everything. It feels good and the final thing will be symmetrical and awesome.
Things seem to be trucking along quite nicely! Building my computer can be fully crossed off my to-do list, and everything for the midi controller is either ordered and on its way to my house, or already sitting in my possession.
So far I’ve only received the Arduino and a new solder station, but I put the order in for all the buttons last night, and this morning I put together a scale mockup (pictured below) of how the controller would look when using a particular enclosure I found. After spending a while looking at it/pretending I was able to use it like the real thing, I went ahead and put in the order for the enclosure. I don’t expect to get the buttons for a while, since they’re shipping from Hong Kong.
This leaves me the rest of November and all of December to finish my two remaining projects: editing the Path of Neo Let’s Play, and building the midi controller – Once I’m done with both of these I’ll be able to focus all of my creative time/energy into my new album.
I'm happy to say that things are plugging along smoothly. I ordered PC parts last Thursday, and during the weekend I mucked out my office/studio room - something I didn’t write about, but desperately needed to do.
All my PC parts arrived by yesterday, so after only working till 12 (half days are pretty great), I built my new computer. The case I picked out ended up looking way more baller than I expected, it also has an insane amount of room on the inside compared to my old monstrosity. For the first time building a computer, I wired all the cabling through the side/behind the mobo of the case, and man what a difference that makes.
The PC booted up first try, which is always great, but there’s a chance something isn’t right… I launched Saints Row 4 and Metro Last Light, both of which ran like hot garbage during the 5 mins I had them open. CPU temps and usage seemed typical, but I realized I hadn’t done any windows updates, so I ran through and downloaded all of that junk, but wasn’t able to test performance afterwards. While I was browsing the internet waiting for windows updates to download, I was checking my temps and fan speeds, which were gradually rising – 3000-4000RPM (which was LOUD) and 40-50c - Some people report that this is typical with the cheap stock cooler that comes with the CPU I ordered, so I may end up buying an aftermarket one.
Midi drum controller! I’ve been looking at thrift stores and antique shops (and everywhere basically), for something that I’d be happy repurposing into the enclosure for my controller – but it’s been tough. I’ll either find something that’s the right size, but usually is ugly and/or made out of a material I don’t want to deal with – or the opposite - something that’s the right material but too big/small or weirdly shaped. Even though I don’t have an enclosure, I did go ahead and order the Arduino, and a new solder station, and I will be ordering the buttons today – focusattack.com was down yesterday when I ordered everything else.
So yeah! Made a lot of good progress a lot quicker than I thought I would. I have a few kinks to work out, but after I work through them I’ll start cranking away on my Let’s Play videos then begin work on the project to end all projects – my album o_o
I’m liking this whole tumblr thing as a way to layout my plans and keep me focused on my projects. I’ve come to realize that I have so much going on in my life right now that I need to make an effort to keep myself on-track with all the things that don’t eat up 80% of my day-to-day life.
First up, I feel I should address the current state of the Let’s Videogame youtube channel I run with my cousin (www.youtube.com/letsvideogame ). At the beginning of summer we recorded a Let’s Play of the game The Matrix Path of Neo. We have all of the audio and video recorded, but not long after we started posting episodes my computer started BSODing – at first it seemed like when I was doing resource intensive tasks, but over time it kept happening, seemingly at random, and I was never able to pinpoint the cause.
It’s obviously a concern to me, but when you don’t have very much time to USE your PC you really don’t want to spend that limited time FIXING your PC (especially when you work in IT and spend all day fixing PCs). There was also another fact lingering in the back of my head – my PC is kind of old. Despite the specs being okay (Quad core, 8g ram), and having upgraded/replaced almost every component in the machine over time, it is still, in some way, the same PC I started building back in 2007.
All of this is in addition to the biggest nail in my productivity coffin – the death of my father. On August 14th my dad unexpectedly passed away… I’m not going go into detail about that here, but as you can imagine, it flipped my world upside down and shutdown any extracurricular activities I was involved in.
The flip-side to that horrible event is that I will soon be receiving a little bit of money from the whole ordeal. With this money I plan on building a new PC from the ground up, and it’ll also be funding the midi controller I’m working on.
Building the computer is very much a non-project for me (last ground-up I did took maybe 2hrs?), so I won’t go into any details on that.
First order of business when I get my new computer will be to finish the Path of Neo let’s play videos. I feel like I’m starting to become one of those people who’s all talk and never finishes anything, so while I’m not making any promises, I’m sick of sitting on unfinished work and am looking to change that. I’ve identified that if I want those videos to see the light-of-day, I need to sit down and crank them out until every single one is edited, rendered, and uploaded for scheduled release on youtube. Previously I was trying to edit 3-4 videos at a time once a week, and it just wasn’t working.
I’ll then move on to my Midi controller. Because it’s more of a side-project, and I’m really excited to work on it, I’ll probably be building it during the time I’m supposed to be in my PON editing blackout. I won’t, however, start using it to make music until PON is fully off my docket.
Next up will be MUSIC - Looking back at the library of music I’ve released made me realize that I produced the best results when in my music production class where I worked towards a clear goal (30mins of music) and had a deadline. So with PON off my mind and a cool new piece of music-tech to play with, I want to dive in and try my hand at making a full-length album. It’ll be the first time I try working on a lengthy music project (instead of just one song at a time) since the 2012 demo, and will be pretty similar in sound/feel to that. I’ve mentioned that I was never fully happy with how that demo turned out, so my plan is to revise, expand, and polish that material into something I’m truly proud of. If I stick with it, I expect this to be my primary creative outlet for the next year, and should hopefully have something release around this time 2014.
So ya! That’s the plan. I’m sure Let’s Videogame will continue being a thing, and there will be several other side-projects I work on during the next year (I already have some ideas kicking around), but I won’t worry about those until they come up.
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