Daily Archives: 2009-09-29

Musical Barrel #1

Posted on 2009-09-29 by pappp

One of my hobby projects just came to fruition earlier tonight. A team from Collexion has been working on building a pair of musical Bourbon barrels to support local charity auctions. The first one (6 notes from an internal glockenspiel, triggered by capacitive touch sensors on the rings, with an excellent paint job by Sam Wilson) sold earlier tonight at Spirits of Giving, bringing in $1500 to be split between Collexion and the Nash Brigthon Project. It’s great to be doing technological art, and it’s great that it can be used to support good causes. I forgot to bring my camera, but as soon as I get sent pictures from the people who did have them I’ll throw at least one up.

Edit: I don’t have pictures, but here is a video of the demonstration.

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Paper Submission +1

Posted on 2009-09-29 by pappp

Got another conference paper out last night, half an hour before the deadline. I’m again the third author, but this time I am there for contributing content, not just huge amounts of editing. This is a better paper than the one that didn’t make it in at SuperComputing; our focus is more on the theory behind the LARs desing and it’s many interesting implications, and the polish is much better. The venue is also more appropriate, this paper is out to IPDPS, who have a better track record taking things as “out there” as this one, both because of their editorial process and focus.

It’s great to be working with committed people; both my co-authors and our advisor were there and working to make it better until 11:45 at night when we finally got it squared away and submitted.

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