cleanup

Just walked through all the plugin and theme scripts and cleaned up a lot of duplicate scripts.
I had 2 Jquery scripts , (that killed lightbox).
and 3! swfobject scripts (including a v1)
Rewrote flvembed plugin to use v2.1 instead.
Maybe I’ll start looking for one plugin that can embed all media.

Still working on a spam-problem (eventhough I’m using captcha)

Merapi now open source, converted arduino experiment

At Flex360 The Merapi-project went open-source.
So I decided to convert the LivingColors Experiment back from a server client model (Wowza + flash client) back to a single machine setup.

So I got an arduino-board and custom shield, a java-application that connects to the serial port on one side and to an Air-app on the other via the Merapi Bridge. The Air app gets an average color from the center of a webcam image and sends it to the java, which in turn sends the number (color) to the serial port. That’s all.

I do need to tweak some stuff, so that there’s less jitter.

[update]
More on the Arduino – Livingcolors shield can be found here : http://static.knutsel.org/kits/CC2500_Arduino_Shield_v03/ (in Dutch).

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Be careful where you put your projects

I Just made a big mistake.
I created a new project with Eclipse, but placed it in my “active projects” folder instead of “active projects/projectname”
So I deleted it. Unfortunately Eclipse deleted ALL the contents under “active projects” instead of just the project files.
So I just lost a weeks work…

Lesson learned? Daily backups instead of Weekly backups….

Black Screen Visualizer for WMP

Last year I assembled my Media Center machine. Although I think the interface design is not optimal, I’ll never go back to having a separate TV, DVD an Audio System. One thing that bugged was not being able to turn off the monitor with the remote. When I’m playing music I don’t really need to see the mce interface. So this weekend I decided to figure out how to make a Visualizer plugin. I wanted to build a visualizer that visualizes… uhm .. NOTHING… Just a black screen so I won’t have to turn of my monitor.

So I downloaded the Windows Media SDK, read the help files and found a code sample. Unfortunately it didn’t work right away, because I’m using visual studio 2005. Searching msdn, I did find a way to convert the windowsmediaplugin wizard to VS 2005.

In the sample I just commented out the lines that did the visualizing, and changed the presets that came with it.
After building the solution, I got a dll that I could register on my MCE machine.

Sweet, now all it needs is some testing.