Watson Terminal 21 Rama 3

[Bradley Zweig]

Ifigured out almost immediately that the PIR motion sensor will not work for my project because they are activated by energy displacement. Given my diorama will be trying to detect motion on the other side of an insulated window, this means energy/heat detection will be difficult, if not impossible, to pickup. In other words, this is a no-go for my use case.

But this led me down a rabbit hole of other options for motion activation using the Arduino. Another sensor I had hanging around that might work is the SHARP GP2Y0A21 proximity sensor. This sensor has a range of 10-80 cm, and according to this thread might work at a distance of 30 cm from the window and angled at greater than 30 degrees from the glass surface:

I have had good luck using sharp gp2 series proximity sensors behind glass in museum display cases for triggering exhibits. Typically incline them at greater then thirty degrees to the glass surface to avoid measuring the reflection. Range from 30 cm in.

While preparing for one of my retrocomputing streams for Reclaim TV I was searching for some of the major differences between Windows 95 and Windows 98. One of the first hits I got in Google was an archived help document from Indiana University:

Anyway, I fell down a rabbit hole of the 90s web using Protoweb, and it was really fun, and that marks the third video in what might be considered a retrocomputing strain of Reclaim TV, and I have a feeling there will be more to come.

Finally, my friend Andrea and I started assessing the best placement of the head and TV while trying to account for the contours we will be created using a malleable wire base and various sized boxes to reproduce a sense of the undulating terrain of the beach.

At the point where you finish selecting all the options in the Raspberry Pi Imager it should looks like this (though your Raspberry Pi Device may be different), but the custom OS should be VIDEO_LOOPER_2.8.ZIP (latest version as of the writing of this) and the storage will be whatever Micro SD card is being used:

The other piece, and arguably most important, is making sure that you have SSH enabled under the Services tab of OS Customisation. This will allow you to remote into the Pi using terminal (or your SSH/SFTP app of choice). I opted for password authentication because password keys still trip me up:

At this point you are ready to either SSH or SFTP in using the details setup when customizing the OS. For example, the above specified localhost, username and password will allow me to access my Pi Zero via SSH as follows:

*As it so happens, we learned about this cool use of a Raspberry Pi back in 2015 from Michael Branson Smith (MBS). He used this software and setup it to create his awesome day of 1980s programming for the UMW Console Living Room project. All hail MBS!

A couple of other pieces to figure out are how to get the footage of Becky Vickers drowning cleanly into a watchable, believable sequence with a GIF or short, looping movie. I know we worked with the video pi looper for OER19, and I can play with that and see if it still works. But I also have an extra mac mini hanging around that I can just run HDMI out and convert for the Motorola TV. On the mini we can use either a GIF in a browser window or looping video in something like quicktime without much overhead. So that piece is absolutely doable, I just have to study the various moments of Becky drowning and get some advice from the GIF/video king Michael Branson Smith on the best way to capture and edit them. I must say, the window diorama is really pulling the bavastudio together.

And those are just the streams I have been involved with over the last month, there are many, many more accessible at archive.reclaim.tv that you can browse at your convenience, but here are a few I will highlight:

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