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Hello! first real week in the shop over and here’s what I’m working on going into week 2.
An old Santa Cruz stigmata cx bike. I bought this lovely NOS frame off of @D_Mars and it’s so light! I can’t get over how light it is. I brought a slightly scrappy Stigmata(seen in original post) back with me from California and am swapping the parts over. Just a coincidence that they are both stigmatas, it was a good deal and had nice parts(but too big). I lived in Santa Cruz for a while so I’ve got a soft spot for bikes made there. I think this might have been one of the last models welded in their hq? More to come…
I’ve been carrying around a little point n’shoot camera with me for the last few years with the idea of making films out of ‘street cinematography.’ I’ve captured a shit load of videos with it, but only a few ‘films’ have emerged (which is fine by me, I might just be into the act of recording rather than sorting through footage). But lately I’ve been lazy with it/I’m too shy to be a street photographer and the hip bag+camera combo have become somewhat of a dead weight. Not any more!
I am making a gadget to help my filmmaking practice in order to introduce some ‘random’ into the hunt. The device will give me a buzz/beep at a random time every day, at which time I will capture something interesting in my surroundings. Maybe this will cut down on the guilt inducing fatigue of always looking for the perfect shot and never getting it. Easy right…
It’s actually fairly hard to learn how to design a circuit and a pcb in just a couple of days. So I had a couple of hotshot silicon valley friends guide me on the circuit and I made a mess out of the pcb. Everyone’s using 90° and 45°s on their boards, but nobody is laying down their traces free form. Expect the messy pcb to be the next hottest trend in the consumer electronics market. It will run off of a raspberry pi pico.
This isn’t done yet. I intend on adding a method of collecting “true random
” and redesigning the object into a more usable form factor.
I am interested to hear your thoughts.
-Jake
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