To design the front panel, a 2D drawing package was needed, I tried a few of the free ones, but couldn’t get on with them. I eventually settled on QCAD which is a paid for program, but not hugely expensive. To design the front panel, …
Having written most of my early programs using a DEC VT100 terminal, I knew I wanted some of the feel of that type of equipment involved: The green glow of a CRT display, and the lined characters of the font embedded within the terminal. So …
For a while the project was called Kinescope, The ‘Kine-‘ part was from the Greek kínima, meaning movement. Cinema also uses this. The ‘-scope‘ part, is again from greek, meaning to inspect or examine. I liked it’s use in ocilloscope, so, after trying other endings, …
I want Akiniscope to hum, click and whir, like all sorts of gizmos are working inside. But subtly, so you only realise, once close, I don’t want it to dominate a space it’s shown in. Having worked in an Arts centre, I don’t want it …
The design of the box, currently, before I’ve started building it, is based on a piece of equipment I used to use when I first started in electronics. It was a big wooden box, with a duck egg blue painted metal front panel. It had …
The Akiniscope will be a box on wall that take a photograph when someone stands in front of it for a certain time. The photo will be a composite of several photos, taken over time, each part gradually revealed. The box will look like an …