So there’s been more reports coming in of Three D playing Jaguar Moon on air. I’d like to thank them, and I suggest you all check them out online. If you like what you see, grab a subscription.

In summary, Three D is too awesome.

Exams + US Gun Laws = School Shootings.

Notice that they’re always in high school and university?

Free online for one week, Reformat the Planet is a sweet awesome mouth-full-of-sugar-feel documentary on a small part of the chiptune scene. Mostly Game Boy stuff, and these are some of the best ‘tunes I’ve heard.

Also relevant ’cause I’m planning to do some chiptuning myself.

So I’ve got a new side-project, East Yo. It’s currently solo work, and I’m mostly working with sampled stuff at the moment. It’s all yo-core as the name might suggest.

In other news, I’ve created the genre “yo-core” with the aforementioned project. It basically consists of rapping, except you can pretty much only say yo.

So here’s the first release from East Yo - Yo Monday. Yo-core vocals over the intro to Blue Monday by New Order. Tell me what you think.

We were running it off a CPLD with little progress, only getting the backlight on and seeing it show up some noise. Then the CRO was damaged when we touched the test lead on the CCFL backlight transformer. Since we’re lacking tools now, we’re on hiatus on this one. It was looking fairly out-there to finish it anyway, though.

This one doesn’t get a name because it’s not really special.

Used an old headphone speaker coil to test, then basically soldered a stereo jack to an old tape head so I could get stereo (you need to use something like an old tape head to get the tiny spacing between left/right tracks on a tape right) and chucked it into an old tape.

The finished tape didn’t look great but I couldn’t be bothered finding a battery to chuck an LED in there. Would look awesome as with a green LED in there though, lighting the dash. Somebody wanna send me a small lithium?

Trying to adjust positioning of the head to get more signal (magnetic field is inversely proportional to the square of the distance), I broke the tape so I rebuilt it.

So MAD PROPS to Adelaide’s own Three D FM for playing Jaguar Moon on June 20th 2008. Thanks a lot guys! Unfortunately I was unaware at the time and missed it but it’s still awesome.

WHY DIDN’T I PATENT THEM?
Here I am browsing some pictures of the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympics (so I didn’t need to be so verbose but what if this website is still up during the Beijing 2092 Olympics?).

So I see the above pic and think they’re dangerously close, what with their hats with LEDs. Then I see this:

BLATANT RIP OFF. Just because I’m not a tiara kinda guy and don’t USE my LEDs, doesn’t mean they can pick out someone that looks good with tiaras and chuck LEDs in their hair and think I won’t notice. Pricks.

Photos courtesy of someone else. Catgeory: Oppression because China’s involved.

Any good Wordpress spam solutions? I’ll have to Captcha it up more. I got spam about penises, which lead to Wordpress emailing me about the new comment with the text in the email. This then set off the spam filters on my email account. Brilliant.

So, due to new finances becoming available, I’m bringing the Moddernator project back. This time with a new 300W motor and chain drive. The only components it’ll share with the Mk I are the batteries and the scooter frame, and probably the battery panniers.

I’m sorry I didn’t upload the pictures of the LairSystem LED Tiara. But they weren’t that great.

Why do I name everything?

There’s also ideas to build a scooter frame from almost-scratch and to mount the old 100W motor from the Mk I to it, with bigger wheels and other improvements made possible with a custom frame. This might become more of a cruiser, or become my main daily ride, depending on how we do it. Bigger wheels means more weight, which is a drawback for daily use, but also brings increased vibration resistance. Also, the 300W motor is a little overpowered for general commuting so we’ll see whether this “Son of Moddernator” takes off.

Hopefully I don’t have to do too much hunting for a new FET for the speed controller to handle the 300W motor.

OK, so the LEDs in the hair wasn’t a great idea. Not really working out.

But I pressed on and got a couple of setups together.

I had 3 green LEDs in parallel off 3V, which didn’t fit into the hair well and weren’t too bright.

I then had 3 red LEDs in series off 7.2V, which were brighter and fit into the hair better, but were still pretty lame.

I think for this to work well, I’d need some SMD LEDs and some really thin wire. Then it might work.

But it would still probably end up looking like a tiara, and I’m not into that shit.