Posted By shanmoon on June 29, 2010

This as a cute little video of an AT-AT as a dog-like pet…makes me want to get out the robotic AT-AT I built and tinker with its behavioral programming… darn my arms for being broken!

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Tags: animation, star wars, toy, video

Posted By shanmoon on June 21, 2010

If you’re not into vintage drums, this probably won’t interest you. Last year I swapped my vintage ’69 Ludwig Club Date kit with a beautiful ’72 Slingerland kit in a White Tiger Pearl (WTP) wrap. I just love the old school 3-ply sound of the classic jazz and bop drummers! The only downside of the swap was it just had a 16″ floor tom and I prefer the smaller jazz size shells like a 14″ floor tom.

However, I just managed to augment my kit (via clever sales/trades) with a matching 3-ply mid ’70s 14″ tom and 3-ply 10″ rack tom in WTP! Woot! I also found a ’69 Slingerland jazz sized snare in WTP and an mid ’80s 8″ tom re-wrapped in WTP. I have an AWESOME full kit now! If I can find another Slingerland kick drum from that era in WTP it will be the bomb with dual bass! Too bad I can’t play ‘em (or even tune the new shells) on account of the shattered arms and nerve trauma. Stupid hanglider. ARGH!!!!!!

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Tags: drum kit, drumming, jazz, slingerland, vintage

Posted By shanmoon on May 23, 2010

I was seriously injured in a hanglider accident on May 9th. I was airlifted to a trauma center and was hospitalized for almost two weeks. I am now out of the hospital and will be recovering at home for the next couple of months.

Obviously finishing the template for the new website is substantially delayed. The goal is to take my steampunk theme from http://steampunkgirl.moonbase.net and turn it into a Jules Verne-esque retro moonbase/space look.

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Tags: accident, hangliding

Posted By shanmoon on May 8, 2010

I’m migrating shan @ moonbase to a new content management system with a new look and feel. The template is a work in progress. The online gallery and downloads will be the last items to move, as they will require some gnarly scripting and SQL to import (no way will I try to move it manually!), as will the story archives older than 2008.

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Posted By shanmoon on May 7, 2010

I took two courses for the Spring 10 semester at Harvard. One was an easy elective on Content Management Systems.

Here are a few of my projects:

• http://steampunkgirl.moonbase.net – A WordPress site
  I plan on using this as the basis for a new Jules Verne-esque retro look for my website
• http://soaring.publishpath.com – A LightCMS site
  A simple site to demonstrate LightCMs. It is focused on my love for soaring
• http://staging.floridapyrs.org – A Joomla site
  A prototype for a new look and feel for the current Florida Great Pyrenees Club Rescue site
• http://steampunkgirls.ning.com – A Ning social network site
  An example ning community for women who are Steampunk enthusiasts
• http://www.moonbase.net/Moon-CSS – A simple CSS demo
  Not much to look at, just an exercise in applying a style sheet to an HTML page we were given
• http://www.moonbase.net/Moon-Moodle – A Moodle Online Class
  Not pretty…I did not make a custom template for this one. It was more an exercise in functionality for an online classroom for the course “EVIL-101: Find Your Inner Overlord”

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Tags: cms, harvard, web

Posted By shanmoon on March 31, 2010

Video of Today’s Flight In My Sailplane: 2 1/2 minute video of a flight today in my sailplane… assembled from short clips I shot from my iPhone in flight…. neat view of space mountain about 35 seconds into the video… apologies for the dorky audio… I had no idea how much I talk to myself when flying, lol.

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Tags: dg-300, soaring, video

Posted By shanmoon on March 11, 2010

I discovered these freaky little blip boxes by Designer Yoshi Aki. What’s most interesting about this is the Steampunk design aesthetic.

My personal favorite is the “Cube”, a 4 Channel 16 Step Drum Sequencer.

The main box has 4 input section. each square has 4 different trigger pattern on a side. Each cube makes a unique sound.

Putting the cubes on the main box makes drum pattern and rotating the cube makes a new drum sequence.

The Cube in action….

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Tags: analog, analog synthesizer, electronics, midi, Music, Steampunk

Posted By shanmoon on February 24, 2010

I’ve got some new toys for my desktop… steampunk Star Wars action figures! Droids rock, and they rock more when they are steamed!

The imperial figures are pretty nifty too, but nothing beats R2-D2, the coolest ‘bot of all time.

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Tags: star wars, Steampunk

Posted By shanmoon on February 9, 2010

This lovely Steam Electric Hybrid Motorcycle was featured at the 1st annual Handcar Regatta in Santa Rosa, Ca. as part of the Ratchet and Rumble Crew.The Whirlygig also traveled to San Mateo, California for the Bay Area Maker’s Faire and recieved a Make Magazine Editor’s Choice Blue Ribbon!

The story of the making of this masterpiece can be found at the owner’s website.

I’d love to ride off with this bike! I wonder what the top end is? I need to plan my get away with this beauty.

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Tags: expo, hybrid electric, make, motorbike, motorcycle, steam powered, Steampunk

Posted By shanmoon on February 8, 2010

This is the finest bit of Steampunk engineering that Steampunk Girl has seen to date. It may look like a Victorian music box, but inside this intricately hand-crafted wooden case lives a Hewlett-Packard ZT1000 laptop that runs both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. It features an elaborate display of clockworks under glass, engraved brass accents, claw feet, an antiqued copper keyboard and mouse, leather wrist pads, and customized wireless network card. The machine turns on with an antique clock-winding key by way of a custom-built ratcheting switch made from old clock parts.

Look here for the details on the making of this steampunk masterpiece

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Tags: gadget, laptop, Steampunk