Multiplicity

So, 2 weeks since the last update (well I started one - but never posted it - consider this a bumper update), in that time I've:

i) Had my photo on page 3 of the newspaper ;-)
ii) Attended the highly successful UK Pinball Show
iii) Failed to do any Christmas shopping.
iv) Started work on the Super Mario Pinball...

So newspaper article was suitably embarrassing - luckily they don't archive the photo they published. Horribly misquoted and ribbed the whole weekend of the show about 'playing all the machines from Swindon to Brighton'.

The show was a great success, with 143 machines for people to play, for free, for a mere 5quid entry. Had a great weekend and the event raised ~3grand for MENCAP. (As of writing you can still buy t-shirts in aid of mencap here.)

I've made one attempt brave town for Christmas shopping - managed to buy myself the ludicrously expensive remote for my camera (15 quid for a 1 button IR trigger...) but it means I can have fun like this:



Using the tripod and multiple shots rather than extensive photoshop post-processing is pretty cool. I plan to experiment with this some more... the remote allows you to do really long exposure shots (like 'bulb' setting), but without the need to keep a finger one the shutter release, thus shaking the tripod (click once to open shutter, then again to close.) Lots of fun to be had creatively there too - so far limited to shooting a darkened empty room, whilst I figure out exposure...

Super Mario is gonna be a long-time work in progress - it basically lights the general illumination and not much else - I've started work on the cpu board, having ordered the motherload of spare parts which arrived the other day.

Most of the rest is the mundane work/drink cycle that is too dull to report - mostly work.

Oh, and I haven't forgotten I owe one of you a post with details of my digital photo-frame project. It's coming... and so's Christmas :D