Author Archives: JC

Stop Motion Animation with Post-it notes

Posted on January 26, 2011

The process that I used to make this video is explained pretty well in this post (with other videos) .  Here’s another video that I made using stop motion animation: Using post it notes came from seeing something like this … Continue reading →

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ENV2 Camera Phone TRIPOD mount

Posted on January 24, 2011

As discussed in this post, I recently made some custom mounting hardware for my phone.  Although a wooden block seemed sufficient at the time, I’ve been trying out some stop-motion techniques and purchased a tripod.  Making my ENV2 mount compatible … Continue reading →

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Drawing a Circle with GIMP using “border select”

Posted on January 22, 2011

I use GIMP to illustrate many of my projects, but one thing that’s seemingly difficult to do is draw a circle.  I don’t have to point out the benefits to using this “feature”, so here is the video tutorial that … Continue reading →

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Finishing your MAME project

Posted on January 19, 2011

In a previous post, I went over making your MAME controller functional using an encoder from Groovy Game Gear.  This setup wasn’t quite finished though, as it had no back cover, the USB cord wasn’t properly secured, and the outside … Continue reading →

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Stop Motion with GIMP, A Milling Machine, and an Env2

Posted on January 17, 2011

Here’s the results of quite a bit of work; I’ll explain how it was done and show my first video using stop motion animation after the break. Jason Underwood, who writes for Broken Bulb Comedy, collaborated on this video after … Continue reading →

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Draftsight has Expired/Is not licensed? How to fix it.

Posted on January 13, 2011

This is now officially hosted at: jcopro.net.  This site is no longer updated. Today I booted up Draftsight to open a .dxf file, but it was not usable.  The following message came up: Fortunately I had a model I could … Continue reading →

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MAME using an encoder

Posted on January 12, 2011

After a marginally successful attempt at building a “wireless MAME” device using an old keyboard, I decided it was time to bite the bullet and simply buy an encoder.  Although the original setup did work as a wireless controller for … Continue reading →

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