Hacker News: mezzman

New comment by mezzman in "Logo Programming Language"

mezzman — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:44:55 +0000

It's turtles all the way down

New comment by mezzman in "The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube"

mezzman — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:28:47 +0000

Dalibor Farny is a great example of bringing nixie tubes back into existence purely by determination and deep research. https://www.daliborfarny.com

New comment by mezzman in "Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality"

mezzman — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:28:22 +0000

This reminds me of an old Wired interview with Danny Hillis when he developed a system called Babble that used unintelligible vocal bits as background sound to help concentration, too bad it never really went anywhere. https://www.wired.com/2005/06/applied-minds-think-remarkably...

New comment by mezzman in "Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chip"

mezzman — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:38:33 +0000

Polychromatic acousto-optic modulation hasn't been used in laser shows for quite some time since RGB diode based laser systems came about. Granted, nothing beats a mixed gas ion laser and PCAOM for the beautiful colors you can get but these days nobody misses dragging around water hoses and sorting out 60 Amps of three phase power to run those old beasts.

New comment by mezzman in "The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks"

mezzman — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:10:02 +0000

This one from 2013 when the Chromebook Pixel was announced was pretty great too. https://tomsepe.com/portfolio/google-pixeltree/

New comment by mezzman in "Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?"

mezzman — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:43:23 +0000

Absolutely check out Refik Anadol, amazing contemporary work.

https://refikanadol.com https://refikanadolstudio.com

New comment by mezzman in "Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses"

mezzman — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:39:25 +0000

However hazardous cargo is not allowed in tunnels so bridges like this one are the only way hazmat can be transported over water crossings.

New comment by mezzman in "Thaddeus Cahill's Teleharmonium"

mezzman — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:58:22 +0000

And a digital version was made into a Eurorack modular synth module as well. http://www.makenoisemusic.com/modules/telharmonic

New comment by mezzman in "Webcams aren't good enough"

mezzman — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 01:12:26 +0000

Marshall, a company that makes miniature video cameras used in broadcast has a great USB camera that is UVC1.5 compliant, you can change lenses, it's not that big, and has great image quality.

https://marshall-usa.com/cameras/CV503-U3/

New comment by mezzman in "A year with the Elgato Stream Deck"

mezzman — Mon, 30 May 2022 12:05:04 +0000

There is an amazing alternate control software package for Stream Deck called Companion that allows for control of many AV products and really opens up the possibilities of what can be done with the SD: https://bitfocus.io/companion/