FALL

Fall is approaching slowly but spent us a beautiful day.

180 view on the Selker Noor

Audio:
 Selker Noor September 2011 (edit) by spinout 

NIGHT OF THE JUMPS

...is always awesome!

TILTSHIFT GENERATOR FOR IPHONE

I tried the TILTSHIFT GENERATOR APP for the iPhone. It kind of gives you the possibility to let photos look like miniature pictures or to even focus on specific areas of your picture. It comes along with some nice effects. It's worth giving it a try.

NYC TiltShift

WINTER DAY

Cold temperature and strong eastern wind - these have been the main parameters of today. But a couple of minutes ago the sky looked brilliant.

Schlei Panorama

LEGOMANIA

There is no way to pass a Lego shop without checkin' it out - or even worse - buying more Lego stuff. But anyway, I needed to have Buzz Lightyear and bought the package that contained him: the pizza planet jeep. It's cool because it contains a pizza canon. If you pull at the rear it shoots pizza's from the front.

jeep - rear

driver's seat

jeep - rear

dino's seat

famous buzz lightyear

RIDE

...that's what I'll do today!

ball pen + coloured pencil

CRAFTED APPLE BOX

I did some more crafting this weekend to store some items such as a Mac Book charger, headphones etc. It's the second time that I chose cardboard as material. I like the idea of recycling stuff and besides that it's easy to handle.

Some items and tools you might need:

Best would be to make a form, draw the outlines to the cardboard and cut them.

After you got several pieces, you can easily glue them together.

I'm using some weights to obtain some pressure to the layers.

And if everything works out fine you'll get this:

TRUE TECHIE

The recent book I read was „The boy who harnessed the wind” from WILLIAM KAMKWAMBA. It’s a very touching story about an African boy who is fighting poverty with simple but brilliant technical inventions. I definitely recommend this book! If you’d like to have a preview, check out his story on youtube.

Das letzte Buch, das ich las, war „Der Junge, der den Wind einfing“ von WILLIAM KAMKWAMBA. Die Geschichte, von einem Afrikanischen Jungen, der sein Schicksal in die eigene Hand nimmt und Armut mit einfachen aber brillianten technischen Erfindungen meistert, hat mich sehr berührt. Das Buch kann ich definitiv empfehlen. Einen Vorgeschmack gibt’s auf Youtube zu sehen.

CARDBOARD IPHONE STAND

If you’re using your iPhone a lot it’s always the same: there are too few iPhone stands around. An easy and cheap way to work around that is to simply built one. There are lots of instructions out there, but I tried to setup my own model. The basic idea is to glue several layers of cardboard together.

If you’re interested please check out the CARDBORAD IPHONE STAND LAYOUT as PDF.



Wenn man das iPhone viel verwendet hat man oft ein Problem: meistens sind zu wenig iPhone Halterungen zur Hand. Eine einfache und billige Lösung ist sich selbst eine zu bauen. Es gibt Dutzende Anleitungen im Web aber ich habe bewusst mein eigenes Model entworfen. Der Entwurf basiert auf dem Zusammenkleben verschiedener Pappschichten.

Wenn Interesse besteht, schaut euch gern das PAPP-IPHONE-HALTERUNGS-LAYOUT als PDF an.

Print out the LAYOUT, copy them to cardboard, cut pieces, glue them...

LAYOUT ausdrucken, auf Pappe anzeichnen, ausschneiden, zusammenkleben...

A few things you might need.

Ein paar Dinge, die man braucht.

That's how it should look like after gluing the parts together. Irregularities can be rectified by using sandpaper.

So sollte das Ergebnis nach dem Kleben aussehen. Unebenheiten können einfach mit Schmirgelpapier bearbeitet werden.

That's the result.

Und so sieht die Halterung fertig aus.

LEGO SOLAR PANEL STAND

Today the sun was out and I just thought about how to improve the efficiency of my solar panel. I'm using it to recharge my iPhone while running the radio app. The panel + battery have been one of my best investments ever. I'm using them a lot. So finally I came up with a Lego solar panel stand that does work out pretty well!

Heute war die Sonne draußen, und ich musste überlegen, wie ich mein Solar Panel noch effektiver gestalten kann. Ich verwende das Panel um mein iPhone zu laden, während ich eine Radio App nutze. Panel + Akku war eine der besten Investitionen seit langem. Ich benutze sie häufig. Schliesslich habe ich mir einen Lego Solar Panel Halter gebaut. Der funktioniert einwandfrei!

SUMMER

KIELER WOCHE

The Kiel Week is close at hand. It’s, at least once, definitely worth avoiding the big party in the city and driving to Schilksee instead. That’s where all the sailing contests will take place. Right now everything is calm over there but very soon the place will be crowded by all kinds of boats.

Die Kieler Woche naht. Auf jeden Fall ist es wert die große Party in der Stadt einmal zu meiden und nach Schilksee zu fahren. Dort werden die Segelwettbewerbe ausgetragen. Im Moment ist noch alles ruhig dort aber schon sehr bald wird alles voller Boote sein.

MORE STITCHES

Das Wetter war heute wundervoll, was mich motivoiert hat ein paar weitere Stitches zu generieren.

The weather was wonderful today which motivated me to produce some more stitches.

INKSCAPE

Ich habe das Vektorgrafik-Programm INKSCAPE für mich entdeckt. Das Open Source Tool bietet wirklich viele spannende Möglichkeiten schöne Grafiken zu erstellen. Aufgrund der Vektor Technologie skalieren die Grafiken sehr gut und verpixeln nicht.

I discovered the vector tool INKSCAPE. The open source software does provide a lot of interesting possibilities to produce nice graphics. Related to the vector technology the graphics do scale well and won't be a mess of pixels.

BEAUTIFUL DAY

...heute auf dem Flughafen Stuttgart!

...today on the Stuttgart airport!

STIL DREAMIN'...

...of NYC!

STITCH IT

...it's fun.

HUGIN

I got a hint from a friend of mine. He showed me how to create panorama pictures with the HUGIN PHOTO STITCHER. It’s very easy to use. First of all one has to take pictures of the selected scene, overlapping each other by approx. two-thirds. After starting Hugin you simply import the relevant photos, the software is doing a bit of math … done. It’s pretty easy and the result is very nice. Especially for outdoor scenes it seems to be a very useful tool because the camera angle always seems to be too small.

SUMMER IS NEAR...

... and yellow is the indication. We made a tour through the fields today and there was colour everywhere.

ERFURT

I've been to Erfurt once again. Had been out to pick some food in the evening and enjoyed the nice city afterwards.