hello all,
i mentioned a month or so an interest in video synthesis - well, thanks to a reckless regard to professional advice, and the wonders of ebay, i present to you all:
Jury Gagarin In Space
much fun with soft toys and jamming the composite sync signal - some of you might recognise the backdrops - that very large NASA 50th anniversary book
the 'Gagarin' effect is achieved by pumping composite video direct into a Blacet Time Machine, and some of the glitching utilises a little passive mixer to mix the video signal with LFOs & high frequency VCOs
Autopong II
this is something i've been messing around with for a few years, but couldn't record it except for using the video capture mode on my still camera
it's a Velleman kit modified so that the paddle switches are controlled by a little voltage controlled relay module i built. the 'ai' controlling the game play is a pair of fast LFOs and a single S&H controlling a Cat Girl gated comparator (this in turn is switching the relays). the trick here seems to be to get the LFO speeds correct - there's a sweet spot, which if you don't hit it, the paddles just follow each other up & down the screen
hope you all enjoy - they were certainly fun to make (although there was some gnashing of teeth with Autopong, until i realised i'd 'fixed' the Velleman kit by wiring an LED back to front, which caused it to stop working ......................)
cheers
paul
Paul Bower
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