Jesse Vigil

In the future, we'll keep moments in time in cabinets just like we keep other stuff. This box is based on a design drawn on a cocktail napkin for me by a drunken Tom Swift himself!

Concept: A self-contained memory box that when armed records audio and video whenever the cabinet is opened. A switch moves it to playback mode, which plays back the entire history of recordings placed in the cabinet whenever the door is opened. It's a time capsule for moments, pure and simple. And it comes in a retro future box!

A little history:

Here's my desk on Monday night:

I had a lot of issues with defective hardware. Stuff I bought turned out to be junk, which was actually a huge problem because for a long time I assumed I was just not hooking it up right.
We also had a lot of issues with not really having a workspace that was ours and undisturbed. Still, I think it got pulled off okay. I'm just so glad it worked and went well... my heart's not really in any kind of bitching.

Here's how it looked ten minutes before doors opened:

Chester, my be-goggled daemon and moral support, sits proudly on the top.

When you open her, she looks like this:

And here's a few samples of the video it took:

Me Showing Our Esteemed Department Head
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I got it running again for Max:
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I may keep working on this... it needs to not run off my laptop and I need a new LCD display since the one used is Perry's... still... it was fun.

Posted by Jesse Vigil at 12:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

It's not a simulation.

That would bore me from my mind.

It's not a conversation game.

It's not something I've tried.

It's not an MMO, you know,

cuz I ain't crazy in the head.

It's not really Facade per se;

I want something fun instead.

It's not procedural at all.

It's not about A.I..

It's not something Chris Crawford likes,

cuz that's for Ken, not I.

It's not a branching narrative --

we've had those for too long.

But most of all it's not enormous,

It's small

contained

and strong.

Posted by Jesse Vigil at 9:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I make weird schedules. This is how it works best for me. It's not broken out into little specifics like I would if I was doing the schedule for the same project next year, but mostly because big to-do lists scare the living hell out of me and actually keep me from doing a ton of work.

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