I’ve moved! Both physically and virtually, really. After a really long time at the university campus I’ve moved to a little flat in Enschede. New surroundings, new roommates, lots of exciting, new stuff 🙂
And, as you can see, my little blog has been moved to www.grandmaster.nu
This means that the site is no longer locally hosted by my own workstation and I’m free to turn it off every once in a while 😉
Feel free to contact me with suggestions and such, as I’m probably forgetting lots of stuff.
On another note, I’ve been busy with a couple of things – I went to the STRP festival and saw the ISAM show, really amazing stuff. I also went ahead and did a ‘Leadership’ course, some interesting stuff was going on there as well. I’m not entirely sure it will pan out to anything concrete, but at least I had a good time there. And now I can put ‘Certified Leader’ on my resume 😉
I’m toying with the idea of building a boombox based around a Raspberry Pi, a couple of guys I know are willing to help and it seems like a great way to get to know the hardware. It’s been a while since I’ve done any soldering though… we’ll see how it goes.
Until next time! Stay sexy!
I do realize I’ve not been really updating my site lately, and that’s about to change! There are a lot of changes going on in my life and this site is definitely on the list of stuff that needs to change.
On another note I’ve switched to Linux on my old laptop, hoping that its sucky performance was purely a windows issue… it’s not purely a windows issue. So now I’ve ordered a shiny new SSD hard disk, which should both make it more robust, and a lot quicker. I just hope that I won’t need a lot of disk space 😛
Later this month I’m going to the STRP festival. I had a great time last year, and this time around there are performances of Amon Tobin and Aphex Twin. I don’t know many of the artists in the exposition, but Theo Jansens’ Strandbeest looks like a winner 🙂
Looking forward to the end of the year, when the Raspberry Pi should become available. The specs are impressive, very much so for the price; for that price it could become the basis for a lot of Arduino-like maker projects. And it seems easier to program for/with.
We’ll have to see what the future brings.
Last week I’ve been working as a volunteer at the Grenswerk Festival of the Arts (sorry, Dutch only). It’s been a wonderful festival, I’ve had a great time and even ended up in the newspaper a couple of times because of it. As an added bonus I got to hang out with Louke again, which always makes me happy 🙂
If you haven’t tried it before, try helping out at a local festival – meet interesting people, have loads of fun!
Busy week again, last week was tiring but awesome 🙂
I’ve been working with the Gogbot Festival, which turned out really great. Lots of good people, looking forward to the Galactic Circus (sorry, Dutch only), with a lot of people from Pronksnor. I’m also working on some new tech for a game project, so look forward to some actual practical application of the tutorials on this site (omg, I really have to work more on these).
Last weekend I went to the IBE with my bboy crew, and had a really good time there. Still, lots of little things irked me — ticket prices have gone way up again, no more group discounts, if you’re with a group you still have to get your wristband individually, it’s still really tough to find a spot where you can actually see the battles (bad crowd stands), and even if you manage to conquer a good spot you end up standing/sitting in the same position for a long time so lots of soar feet, bums and backs, the endless standing in line for the final battles… Good atmosphere though, and in the end that’s the most important thing. Also, the programming was more spread out so I get the feeling that I’ve missed less cool stuff than normal. I didn’t bring my camera (it’s not very camping-compatible), so pics will be scarce but as soon as I get them they will be posted here.
Another little tidbit of info – I’m probably going to move this blog to a new spot on the interweb pretty soon, look forward to more new stuff and more reliable availability 🙂
At least kind of 🙂
I’ve been working as a volunteer for an art project where we have to paint huge, lego-like blocks of concrete.