snuffykin

beathen kindly gave me a pretty cookie to put on my profile page. Is sparkly. Has little eatable silver ball dragees.

Thank you !!

And now... more photos of wulfae 's Doctor Who pop-up book (the second)!

Oh, and pay attention, book publishers!! :D You better grab wulfae and sign her for a book deal now. Hello, her stuff's (first book's) in the new Livejournal: The First Decade Book, too.

( Very picture heavy below. )

I hold my breath when I turn the pages. I turn the dial to send the TARDIS through the Time Vortex, help Donna and the Doctor run away from the baddies, peep at Rose and the horse on the other side of the fireplace, flap the pages with the angels and watch them shake the TARDIS between them, and as a finale see a happy dance round the TARDIS console. A-maze-ing.

It's a moving book I got for tardis_day swap from supercalifragilistic wulfae !

It's a pop-up book. I love pop-ups, and movable paper toys. I collect them, and daydream about making them.

And, it's Doctor Who.

Pop-ups + Doctor Who + wulfae = ??

Thank you so much, dear wulfae!

Last week I had an amazing opportunity to visit the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History before its opening later this month. Here are the Fort Worth longhorns greeting me at the entrance.



At night the entrance tower was lit up like a towering volcano.



( snuffykin steers Earth, They Might Be Giants... )

A little more about Scratch, the programming language I posted about earlier.

Connecting Scratch to the physical world

In the workshop, I made a "game" controller from 2 cardboard circles, metal tape, alligator clips, and a Pico board.



When I squeeze "C" the aluminum tape on the top and bottom circles touch. The clips send a signal to port C on the Pico board. The board is plugged into the USB port on the laptop. Scratch reads that touch from port C, and I have programmed the froggie in my game (see previous post) to move to the right "10 steps" for each tap.

I played with other projects people had made, employing the light and sound sensors, the button and slider on the Pico board. Covering the light sensor with my hand caused an nighttime animation on a picture of a landscape.

( See other controllers kids have made, and more info... )