Sebastian Staacks

@there.oughta.be

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Physicist, father, nerd. | Developer of phyphox | Creating stuff on there.oughta.be

The video starts with a macro shot of a flower with a very narrow depth of field. Most of the flower is out of focus and the focal point moves from near to far through the flower. Subsequent scenes show a Sony a6400 camera being controlled by a phone next to it. The phone has a remote control interface and a focus move duration can be change in a drawer with advanced settings. The video shows various interfaces and ends with the focus moving sequence from the beginning and an assembled focus stack photo with the flower entirely sharp. However, the final photo has the problem of showing a white halo around the flower.
A wooden Mario figure dangling from a Christmas tree.
Detail shot of a metal control panel for calling an elevator. From top to bottom there is a warning sign about not using the elevator during a fire, followed by the call button to go up, the call button to go down and a written form about not using the elevator during a fire (in German). The call buttons for up and down have been covered by a well fitted printout replacing the original up/down arrows with lower-case script versions of the letter "a" with an accent circonflexe above. The upper of the two new labels also has a dagger symbol as a superscript. (For those who would get the joke but can not follow the typographic description: It is the raising and lowering operators as used in quantum mechanics.)
This clip shows a rapid sequence of a photo booth setup at a wedding reception, consisting of large video lights, a table with disguises and a screen showing a preview. Three people are pusing a green button to start a countdown. The photo booth records them with a regular Sony camera and a Game Boy Camera. The video then shows a recording of the Sony and the Game Boy Camera next to each other. Finally, the guests print out stills from the recording on a Game Boy Printer.
A photo of a blue Game Boy Pocket, a green Game Boy Camera and a Sony Alpha 6400 system camera. All three are mounted above the top frame of a screen which is almost outside the photo at the bottom. The Sony camera's screen is flipped up and shows a preview of someone taking a picture with a smartphone. The Game Boy's screen is hard to make out because of a reflection, but it clearly shows a preview of the Game Boy Camera's image, showing roughly the same scene as the Sony camera.
The photo shows a laptop, a Game Boy Pocket and a Game Boy Camera on a table. The Game Boy Camera is held up by a hand and connected to the Game Boy Pocket through a long ribbon cable. The top of a GB Interceptor board is sticking out from the Game Boy Pocket, which is connected to the Laptop through a USB cable. The Game Boy Pocket and the laptop both show the same image of the Game Boy Camera's view of me smiling at the camera.
The photo shows the screen of a digital oscilloscope. On the screen three three signals are visible, labelled CLK, MOSI and MISO. Alls show digital patterns with a peak to peak voltage of about 5V and in 8 bit groups that last about 1 millisecond each. Below the signals is the result of SPI decoding, showing hex values for the MISO and MOSI signals. MOSI data is 0x88 0x33 0x0f 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0f 0x00 0x00 0x00. MISO data is 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x81 0x00.
This is a screenshot from a benchmark app, showing a total score of 3029 for my Pixel 6. It also shows a histogram of how many other Pixel 6 devices have achieved which scores, most of which score in the range of 5000 to 7000. It also shows that my score is better than only 2% of the recorded Pixel 6 scores.
The video consists of four scenes: 1) Six different Game Boy models are lined up. The camera moves along them bringing them in focus one after each other. The first is an original Game Boy showing a sequence of the words "TIME", "TO", "CREATE", "YOUR" and "OWN". The following Game Boys show "SLIDESHOW ROM", "FOR YOUR GAME BOY", "IN FOUR SHADES OF GREEN", "OR IN COLOR", "WITH YOUR OWN IMAGES". The last two show colored images. 2) A browser showing the tool to generate Game Boy slideshows. Images are dragged from a folder onto the page, which generates a preview of the slideshow. The mouse then presses "Generate ROM" triggering a download of the ROM file in the browser. 3) The screen is split into four quarters, demonstrating ways to write the ROM file onto a cartridge: a) With an EEPROM programmer, b) with a flash cartridge and with a micro SD cart for c) an Analogue Pocket and d) an EZ Flash Jr. 4) The camera slowly moves towards a Game Boy Color which shows the images from part 2).
The video consists of three sequences. The first shows two Game Boys side by side, both showing a slideshow of photos, abstract images and comic scenes. The left Game Boy is a Game Boy Pocket, the right one is a modded one with a modern display. Both are monochrome. The second clip in the sequence shows a webbrowser window. The images previously seen on the Game Boys are dragged from a file browser into the webbrowser. The images appear there as a list with a grayscale and color image in lower quality next to them. A cursor makes some adjustment via brightness sliders next to an image and clicks on "Generate ROM". The browser then shows that it just downloaded a file called "slideshow.gb". The third sequence is similar to the first, but now showing two Game Boys with color screens. The left is a Game Boy Color, the right one an Analogue Pocket. They show the same images as shown by the monochrome Game Boys in the first sequence.
The video shows a nativity scene made out of a CNCed wood frame which holds an acryllic plate with the figures engraved on it. The plate is lit such that the engraved figures glow. The video first shows a very rapid sequence of the assembly and that the acryllic plates are exchangable. Then follows a sequence of 10 gaming-related nativity scenes with characters from video games replacing Mary, Joseph, Jesus and the star above.
The video shows the back of a Sony Alpha camera with enabled screen. A arm with a smart wristwatch is held next to it. A second hand presses a button next to the label "Trigger" and the camera takes a picture. The video continues to ask what remote trigger method you prefer, showing an infrared remote and a Wifi-based remote app as examples. Then the voiceover explains to prefer Bluetooth as it becomes available instantly after turning on the camera. This is shown with a phone in front of the camera from the beginning. When the camera is turned on, remote control buttons pop up in the notification area of the phone. A finger presses the trigger button and the camera takes a picture. The camera is then turned off again and the remote controls vanish again. The voice explains that Sony does not provide a Bluetooth remote app, so he has written his own. It is free and open source and available on Google Play and F-Droid.
The video shows a Sony Alpha a6400 on a tripod and someone holding a phone with the notification area on the screen next to it. The camera is turned on and a few seconds later a new interface pops up on the phone in the notification area. The hand holding the phone presses one of the buttons on the interface and the camera next to it shoots a photo. Then the camera is turned off and the interface in the notification area vanishes almost immediately.
Photo of the top-most branch of a peach tree with a still small peach growing upwards at the very top. (Details: Two larger branches are visible that have been cut off and the visible part has very few leafs. The tree has been sick for several years now and is actually beginning to grow peaches and a somewhat dense leafage again.)
Photo of a Lego contraption with a lego banana sticking out of the top and another banana sticking out at the front.
Screenshot of Google Maps showing an automatically added parking location in Kazakhstan.
Photo of LED panels showing a fire in a wood stove.
Photo of a Raspberry Pi 2 attached with a few cables to additional electronics. Everything is covered in a thick layer of ash.
Photo of an error message on the screen of a TV. The message reads: GB Interceptor The device is not currently supported. The supported cameras are Logitech C920, C922, C925, C930, StreamCam, Samsung SC-FD100B, Samsung SlimFit Cam, etc. For more information, search for your TV USB Camera model at samsung.com/support and refer to the USB camera manual in the product manual list.
Screenshot of the JPEG demo. It consists of a larger image (the logo of the 37th Chaos Communication Congress) that has been divided into 8 by 8 pixel tiles. Clicking a tile copies it to a smaller preview tile that is disassembled into 64 tiles with different regular cosine patterns.
Photo of a hands holding a Game Boy Color and playing Tennis on it. The game cartridge is not directly plugged into the Game Boy, but through the GB Interceptor adapter, which in turn is connected to an iPad Pro that shows the exact scene from the Game Boy Color.
Screenshot from the talk recording, showing a slide and the speaker to the right. The slide shows a Game Boy along with a live image from a Game Boy.
Screenshot of OBS Studio, showing a preview of the video stream from the GB Interceptor, which shows its standby screen with the warning that it is running in 60fps mode.
Photo of the dark brown wooden Game Boy with white buttons and white screen bezel ist standing on a white surface with a dark blurred backdrop. It shows the title screen of Tetris. To the left and right are wooden Game Boy cartridges. The left one has the same color as the Game Boy and has a carved label reading "Pokemon Walnut version". The other one is made of brighter wood and reads "Pokemon Oak version".
A hand holds two Game Boy cartridges to the camera. Instead of the typical plastics they are made of oak and walnut wood. They feature carved labels reading "Pokemon Oak Version" and "Pokemon Walnut Version", respectively. Unfortunately, the measures were off and the back of the label was only 0.3 mm, so the wood frayed and you can look through the label in some parts.
Side view of the back half of a Game Boy case made from walnut wood. Detail view of the volume dial and the link cable connector sticking through the cutouts on the side of the Game Boy. Lins from the machining paths are visible on the curved part of the case.
Back-side of a Game Boy case made from walnut wood. It is just the case on a white background with an open battery cover. Even the battery contacts are still missing.
A greasy ball bearing is held to the camera with several of the balls fallen out.
The backside of a Game Boy carved out of walnut wood.
A photo of the backside of an original Game Boy with a cartridge made out of walnut wood inserted.