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Have you ever wanted to take HDMI video and output it as art or display it on devices that are not normally HDMI compatible? If so, Pixel Wrangler from Trammell Hudson is for you.
The Pixel Wrangler is a tool for converting HDMI video into anything else. It uses an ice40up5k FPGA to decode the video stream and stores a section of it in the block RAM, which can then be clocked out of the 16 GPIO pins in any other format required.
Since the FPGA has total flexibility in how it drives the output pins it is easily adaptable to different protocols. Some examples that are possible:
- Classic CRT monitors like B&W Mac or Hercules monitors
- LED matrices
- Flip dots
- LED strips (ws2812 or other protocols)
- Lots of servos for “wooden mirrors”
Check out some of the uses on Mastodon and see more about the project on GitHub.
A playable game of Doom on two tiny LEGO bricks. An accelerometer uses tilt to move and pressing the top right connector shoots. It uses a monochrome 0.42″ OLED screen, available from aliexpress or similar. The display uses subframe sampling to get shades of grey. The MicroPython code is on GitHub.
The project uses a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller.
See the use video below, the build video and more on YouTube.
The folks over at Gizmodo shared a first look at the new Vox Machina Vinyl and an exclusive interview with Sam Riegel! Take a close look at the vinyl – yup that’s right, it’s also a zoetrope!
io9: What was the process for collaborating with Neal Acree and Mr. Fantastic?
Riegel: The Scanlan songs are a collab between myself and my brother-in-law Peter Habib, who is a genius pop music producer. He and I met singing in an a cappella group at the University of Virginia (the Academical Village People). We ended up marrying sisters from a different a cappella group, and now we’re all related. So I’ve been making music with Peter for decades. Neal, on the other hand, we were so fortunate to find. He is such an incredible composer, and when we learned he was a fan of Critical Role, it was a no-brainer to bring him onboard. The creative team usually chats with Neal long before the episodes are animated, to give him the vibe of each episode so he can plan his score months in advance. Then when we get animation back from our overseas studio, he already more or less has a sense of what he’s going to do. There is a lot of score in our show, and I don’t know how he gets it all done in time. But somehow, he does.
Check out the full interview and checkout the double LP from Lakshore Records
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was a civil rights activist who played an integral role in the integration of Arkansas schools. She was a mentor to the Little Rock Nine, she and her husband also published the Arkansas State Press a revolutionary newspaper that dealt with civil rights and other issues in the black community.
Here’s more from Wikipedia:
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was born on November 11, 1914. She grew up in southern Arkansas in the small sawmill town of Huttig. She was raised by the closest friend of her father, who had left the family shortly after her mother’s death. In The Death of my Mother, Bates recounted learning as a child that her birth mother had been murdered by three local white men. Learning of her mother’s death and knowing that nothing was ever done about it fueled her anger.
Daisy’s adoptive father Orlee Smith gave her some last advice while on his death bed.
He said, “You’re filled with hatred. Hate can destroy you, Daisy. Don’t hate white people just because they’re white. If you hate, make it count for something. Hate the humiliations we are living under in the South. Hate the discrimination that eats away at the South. Hate the discrimination that eats away at the soul of every black man and woman. Hate the insults hurled at us by white scum—and then try to do something about it, or your hate won’t spell a thing.”
Bates said she had never forgotten that and it is from this memory that Bates claimed her strength for leadership came.
Daisy was 25 when she started dating Lucious Christopher Bates, an insurance salesman who had also worked on newspapers in the South and West. They dated for several months before moving to Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1941; they were married on March 4, 1942.
In 1952, Daisy Bates was elected president of the Arkansas Conference of NAACP branches.
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was a civil rights activist who played an integral role in the integration of Arkansas schools. She was a mentor to the Little Rock Nine, she and her husband also published the Arkansas State Press a revolutionary newspaper that dealt with civil rights and other issues in the black community.
Here’s more from Wikipedia:
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was born on November 11, 1914. She grew up in southern Arkansas in the small sawmill town of Huttig. She was raised by the closest friend of her father, who had left the family shortly after her mother’s death. In The Death of my Mother, Bates recounted learning as a child that her birth mother had been murdered by three local white men. Learning of her mother’s death and knowing that nothing was ever done about it fueled her anger.
Daisy’s adoptive father Orlee Smith gave her some last advice while on his death bed.
He said, “You’re filled with hatred. Hate can destroy you, Daisy. Don’t hate white people just because they’re white. If you hate, make it count for something. Hate the humiliations we are living under in the South. Hate the discrimination that eats away at the South. Hate the discrimination that eats away at the soul of every black man and woman. Hate the insults hurled at us by white scum—and then try to do something about it, or your hate won’t spell a thing.”
Bates said she had never forgotten that and it is from this memory that Bates claimed her strength for leadership came.
Daisy was 25 when she started dating Lucious Christopher Bates, an insurance salesman who had also worked on newspapers in the South and West. They dated for several months before moving to Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1941; they were married on March 4, 1942.
In 1952, Daisy Bates was elected president of the Arkansas Conference of NAACP branches.
