The semaphore robots of death

Jul 14, 2015 23:00

Such is the marvellous pace of technological change, it only takes two lines of wonky Ruby to make the output of a C&N webcam work in much the same way as 'The robots of death'. Hopefully with less mayhem, wellies and seventies retrofuturism.

Retrofuturism is obviously the artistic response to what happens when the robots wioll haven be put in charge of making the maglev trains run on time.

Mind, given the way that yon shoddy webcam reacts to white LEDs (poorly), those who wished for mechanical signalling may yet get their way.

No c0de and no pics to show off this time.

Tangentially, it's probably not just me who grovels through rich but poorly-documented APIs/libraries, thinking 'That probably does something dead interesting, but I have no idea what since the effect of swapping CV_WOMBAT for CV_ANGRY_BADGER and making :polyp => 3 is not described.'

I should probably try to frig up some Fisher-Price knobs to test the interestingness of CV_WOMBAT.

In accordance with prophecy, stack_user.com is less than no help at all. Still, at least it's not as bad as the HPUX 'forums'.

hacking, looking at the wrong things, colporteur

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