As I’ve told so many people, the future is really about openness. Here is an example of a really creative use of Blender.
Several engineers and designers got together to create a robot for people to toy around with. The controls for the robot are actually built from inside the Blender 3D software. It’s all pretty cool. Check out the video:
I love seeing stuff like this. Keeping software open means the public has access to it and so then creativity is open for anyone to participate. It’s great.
Just wanted to post a few sketches I did this week. Their for the office I work at. Let see what comes up as we go along.
C ya.
So I’ve been itching to get my fingers on the development build of Blender 2.5. Mainly because I want to start becoming familiar with the new features and interface, and I want to start experimenting with some of the source code. So I began by following the directions from the Blender developer site. The build process was not that hard for me even though it took about 3 hours for me to resolve some of the build errors I was getting. The reason it was pretty easy is because there was a lot of documentation through various parts of the web which explain how to do this. So I just read through some of them and eventually got the build to function properly without any errors. Now I have Blender 2.5 running on my system and will continue to get updates as we move through the development process.
So today my mother and I finally finished filling up the backyard. The trench that I had dug actually got filled back in July, however I’ve been taking my time filling it. What I did later was go around the cement side walks in the back of the house making channels that lead into the pit that was filled with wood chips. From there I filled the channels with wood chips and I hope as we move into the water season I’ll be able to catch and store a lot of water in the ground. Towards the end my mom gave me a hand and made some suggestions on what to do next. The two of us where out there for about three hours. I will take some pictures tomorrow and post them soon, for now I have to get ready for work. C ya.
Many of the Blender developers are hard at work making sure version 2.5 is everything they say it will be. I decided to begin using the development builds, which can be found at: http://www.graphicall.org/builds/
You can begin using the program but be cautious because it contains several bugs and unimplemented features as the developers work hard to put it all together. Check out this video for a summary of what’s currently in the new version:
Blender 2.5, – Got flexible? from Pablo Vazquez on Vimeo.
I’ve also spent a little bit of time practicing my painting skills:
Software: MyPaint
Time: 4 hours
Original Referance Image
As well, as programming. I put together a registration form for AZHS’s new community table. Soon I will work on getting the backend side of the software up and running.
There’s also my part time job that I go to 4 out of 7 days a week. Things aren’t too bad for me. C ya.
Tree planting
Well the Tree Planting event on April 25th was a huge success. Here are more pictures for all to see.
Thanks to Megyn Scott for sending me the images.
AZHS YouTube Channel
I should have posted this a while back but Arizona Homegrown Solutions now has it’s own YouTube Channel:
The goal will be to get more videos up there on sustainability and the groups progress in the valley as time goes on.
So this is the first post I am making on the development of the myToolBox web application. These are just a simple set of tools to use along side other web applications. I am developing them for Arizona Homegrown Solutions to help solve some small little problems we are running into here and there. Right now it is not all that impressive since a lot of the development time has been spent learning javascript, php, and mysql. I knew them to some degree before due to my exposure making web applications in the Ruby on Rails platform, but not to the degree I know now. Read the rest of this entry »
Well another successful Citrus Glean. We had about 14 volunteers and managed to fill up the whole U-HAUL trailer. I was worried at first that we may not have enough people but I was wrong. We had enough. The other nice thing was that we had repeat people. Five people that were at the very first glean that we had also showed up for this one. I guess they had so much fun that they decided to come back. Read the rest of this entry »
So today at Sahuaro Ranch Park I attended the Glendale Green Festival. Well, I didn’t really attend I was just there to help Jennifer Fish with her Seedballs For Children event. After it all I’m giving it an ‘A’ for Awesome. Read the rest of this entry »
So today I met with the North Phoenix Action Group. Horse Help which is a non profit organization in Phoenix that uses horses as therapy for disabled people and troubled teens has opened up their facility to have Arizona Home Grown Solutions partner with them in turning a lot of their open and unused space into therapeutic gardening areas. This was the main highlight of the meeting and here are the meeting notes.