WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY (PICS)

[bryaneidins]

Climbing trees with the two 'Devils…'

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[neph93]

^Where you at in this pic, Bryan? Looks very familiar…

[bryaneidins70]

Nothing too exciting, Just our local park….Woking park, Surrey.

[neph93]

There you go. It struck me as very "Surrey".

[bryaneidins70]

^^^ :D^^^.

Have you been to the 'green belt' before?

[neph93]

I have indeed. Had a girlfriend who lived in Esher of all places and spent some time working around Grayshott and Guildford…

[Giles]

All that "wasted" space above the photo studio, won't be soon….

[neph93]

Nice! What are the dimensions on the joints? And are you building stairs?

[bryaneidins70]

@neph93:

Nice! What are the dimensions on the joints? And are you building stairs?

Esher is very nice and well to do. I Spent pretty much all my youth in Guildford as Woking was too depressing.

Where did you work in Guildford?

[neph93]

Esher and I didn't get on. I was a a dirty leftist punk down from Liverpool and it was as bad a match as you could get.

I worked as a care provider for children with extreme physical disabilities in the Haslemere/Grayshott area and Guildford was our regular day trip destination. The work was great and I liked Guildford a lot. Grayshott and Haslemere combined with Esher turned me off small town England for life.

[Jordonf9]

Test area for finishing the paint on the helmet. The hole and dark spot is for my snap rivet at the bottom back of the helmet.

[Chris]

@neph93:

I worked as a care provider for children with extreme physical disabilities

Not easy work, and deeply needed. Genuine respect for this.

[Jordonf9]

Finally done my first serious paint job. Not perfect, but very happy

[neph93]

Looks brilliant.

[Jordonf9]

More progress upgrading the helmet. Leather washers out of sample pieces from Alexander Leather.

[Sam]

Despite my naff soldering it actually worked! My Turing machine is complete!

[neph93]

What does it do?

[Sam]

It sends out rhythmic pulses in time with the random voltages the Turing machine spits out. I've been using it to trigger two drum modules but it can be used to trigger anything you like really. Modular music fun! @neph93

[neph93]

Very cool. I assumed it was something audio related because of the cables, etc, but my reference point for a Turing Machine was either the theoretical computer postulated by the man himself, or Gibson's Neuromancer.

[Sam]

@neph93 It's a modular synthesiser I'm slowly building and spending far too much money on.

Yeah, the Turing machine is based on his algorithm for his original machine. It just puts out random voltages which can be locked into a sequence of varying length and pitch which I've been running through a quantizer that forces the randomness into a musical scale. Wish I understood the mathematics involved but I'd just make myself feel bad if I tried.

Just looked up that Neuromancer novel… looks interesting! I'll have to add it to my ever growing list.