RasPi – Wireless, Synchronized Video Playback

As part of my work for Blackstone Edge Studios, I have helped put together several short films to accompany concert performances. I’ve cobbled together a fairly simple video distribution system that feeds one video signal (VGA from a laptop) to four 42″ LCD HDTV monitors, one HD video projector, and seven small (6″ or so) […]

Potentially Musical Devices

{in progress} Many of the projects I’d like to try center around the possibility of wireless synchronization among several machines, ultimately to a musical beat. One of my first Arduino ambitions was a visual, midi-clocked metronome, which I eventually decided to base on midi-clock coming from a laptop running a sequencer (Ableton Live.) Though I […]

Pack Your Kit

This is the trailer for a video series I did quite a bit of work on with Blackstone Edge Studios. Technical direction and production, glidecam, editing and more. See the whole series here. These were shot and edited in the Fall/Winter of 2009, using Canon 5D Mark II cameras. It’s amazing how far firmware development […]

quad rotor flying camera platform

I saw this on the great dSLR blog Cinema5D a while back: It may be hard to tell from this picture, but that is a Canon EOS 5D Mark II shooting HD video from a remote controlled, microcontroller stabilized quad-helicopter. This particular platform is by Perspective Aerials, who are doing some very impressive things with […]