“And he’ll be chasing them with the soldering iron..”
“Talk about a BRANDING campaign!”
I was told not to indicate who created that little number.
10Jul 2009
09Jul 2009
This is a list of knowledge I have gained from L2Ork. I will probably end up adding more to it later.
1. DISIS is cool. No really, the AC is always blasting. (Well I knew that already, but I am constantly being reminded.)
2. When various parts of speakers, wires, and cable housings are burned, they smell like McDonalds.
3. Soldering is fun!
4. After a period of about two weeks, lesson #3 is void.
5. Linux penguin is sneaky.
6. When I have enough money I’m going to get some BMWs. That’s right, ALL five seasons.
7. Cory may not be as attractive as Shawn but he is “boyfriend” material whereas Shawn is not.
8. Mister Feeny may be grumpy but he holds in him countless life lessons.
9. There are many names with which one may refer to a wire stripper.
10. Anything can be accomplished if you can get enough people to help. (Easier if you can grow an ico-stash.)
11. L2Ork=L2Ove.
08Jul 2009
This being the last week of our summer project, I feel rather good as we’ve accomplished most if not all of the goals set back in the Spring of 2009. We’ve:
- Researched the most cost-efficient version of the L2Ork hardware and supporting infrastructure;
- Designed, prototyped, and developed L2Ork version of the hemispherical speakers;
- Produced mono and 6-channel versions of cables so that the 6-cone speakers can be driven as a mono or multichannel sound system with simply swapping the speaker cable;
- Optimized Ubuntu 9.04 Linux distribution for L2Ork use;
- Overhauled Linux GUI for the Pure-Data rapid multimedia prototyping and development software platform (no worries, we’ll be posting source soon);
- Prepped 12 out of 17 MSI Wind netbooks for the Fall L2Ork curriculum (we should hopefully take care of the rest tomorrow);
- Developed a threaded version of the wiimote Pd external that is Pd-audio-thread safe and dramatically lowers latency for the LED and vibration feedback (source distribution coming soon);
- Designed branding logo and produced the L2Ork website (based on the amazing WordPress);
- Shot tons of instructional footage, and photos, some of the said footage has been already produced (thanks Maya!) and is available on the DISIS Youtube channel and L2Ork media pages (and more coming soon!);
- Painted tons of wiimotes and nunchuks black (yeah, we also heard about the E3’s big announcement regarding upcoming release of the black wiimotes but we simply did not want to wait until the end of the year for the cool stuff to hit eastern shores of the Pacific);
- Designed and prototyped cost-efficient netbook performance holster, and
- Secured additional partners and sponsors.
Finally, as promised, we are sharing our first photos of the L2Ork hemispherical speakers with the World. Enjoy!
07Jul 2009
Is It a Hemi or an IKEA Salad Bowl?
It’s been a while since we posted anything, and with a good reason–we’ve been tremendously busy building speakers and supporting infrastructure. By Friday (June 26th) we had our first speaker up and running and the excitement was at an all-time-high. Once the rest of the cables, faceplates, and other supporting hardware were prepped, the remaining speakers progressed at a staggering pace. Consequently, last week we built the remaining 15 L2Ork speakers in less than four days. Special thanks go to all L2Ork worker bees for such a fine job! We should be posting photos shortly, so stay tuned!
30Jun 2009
“Where are the strippers?”
Gotta expose that wiiiiireee girl!