Comments on: Web controlled Dark Crystal http://hackaday.com/2009/09/19/web-controlled-dark-crystal/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:29:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sahal http://hackaday.com/2009/09/19/web-controlled-dark-crystal/comment-page-1/#comment-95624 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:23:27 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=15786#comment-95624 UPDATE:
i set it to the color of my date’s homecoming dress (a nice mageroyal shade of purple), even though it won’t stay that way long. just thought i’d throw that out there…

]]> By: Sahal http://hackaday.com/2009/09/19/web-controlled-dark-crystal/comment-page-1/#comment-95622 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:20:12 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=15786#comment-95622 this is fun for no apparent reason! i just spent like 15 minutes going from color to color and watching it update! it only changed to a color i hadn’t picked once (darn internet people doing it faster than me!)

VERY WELL DONE!

]]> By: reza http://hackaday.com/2009/09/19/web-controlled-dark-crystal/comment-page-1/#comment-95322 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:10:09 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=15786#comment-95322 It’s actually quite visible and the web cam does not do it justice. Looks much better in person. I just updated the code so the forking step is removed and I stream updated values via pipes. It’s now almost instantaneous and suffers no lag as the value is updated.

]]> By: nebulous http://hackaday.com/2009/09/19/web-controlled-dark-crystal/comment-page-1/#comment-95294 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:39:53 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=15786#comment-95294 It’s still my intention to make one of these, to use as status notifications (green pulse for new mail, for example, in between more neutral fading) With the alabaster it looks awesome. How visible is this in day/office light?

]]> By: supershwa http://hackaday.com/2009/09/19/web-controlled-dark-crystal/comment-page-1/#comment-95261 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:23:09 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=15786#comment-95261 Very creative. Nice job reza

]]> By: reza http://hackaday.com/2009/09/19/web-controlled-dark-crystal/comment-page-1/#comment-95257 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:23:36 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=15786#comment-95257 I’ve put this page up if you want to see a pseudo-live feed. Static image updated every 5 seconds. It’s trippy when multiple people use it at the same time as the color changes get interleaved producing interesting strobe effects.

http://reza.net/misc/moodrock/webcam.html

]]> By: napalm http://hackaday.com/2009/09/19/web-controlled-dark-crystal/comment-page-1/#comment-95243 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:47:30 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=15786#comment-95243 Pretty cool! Reza, what if you set it up to look for keywords in certain groups(eg. happy, sad, angry) on single pages, page groups or pages you’re looking at currently and have it change based on that.

]]> By: Brandonman http://hackaday.com/2009/09/19/web-controlled-dark-crystal/comment-page-1/#comment-95213 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:27:39 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=15786#comment-95213 Reza – I think it would be cool if you made it to where each time someone visited, they added a certain RGB value to one color, and took one away from the others. That way, it’s could indicate the mood of all visitors at one time. (Or maybe just have a sort of triangle set up – Each vertex stands for a color (I.e.: Red, Black, and Blue. People push an indicator to one of the corners of their choice for each visit, so slowly, it begins to indicate the mood of the collection of people for that day. That’d be awesome!)

]]> By: Jason http://hackaday.com/2009/09/19/web-controlled-dark-crystal/comment-page-1/#comment-95199 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:51:19 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=15786#comment-95199 Nice work, Reza. I want one :) How about making it so when somebody picks a color it fades in from the current color? That could be slick!

]]> By: Mike Szczys http://hackaday.com/2009/09/19/web-controlled-dark-crystal/comment-page-1/#comment-95191 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:15:43 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=15786#comment-95191 @reza: If you’re running Linux, I’ve had some success with webcam-server:
http://hacktivision.com/index.php/2009/06/16/setting-up-an-ubuntu-webcam-server?blog=2

If you’re not running Linux you’ll have to ask someone else.

]]> By: reza http://hackaday.com/2009/09/19/web-controlled-dark-crystal/comment-page-1/#comment-95189 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:10:05 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=15786#comment-95189 I’ve got a web cam here – any suggestions for some software that’s reasonably lightweight to steam?

The colors are already changing, kinda strange wondering who’s controlling it..

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