2 <title>RUDAK Work in Bdale's New Basement </title>
5 <center><h1> RUDAK Efforts at N3EUA </h1></center>
9 <h2> 14 October 1998 </h2>
10 <center><b>It WORKS!</b></center>
12 Shortly after midnight, I viewed the first picture taken by the SCOPE EM and
13 downloaded through the RUDAK EM! Unfortunately, it's a horrible picture. I
14 then moved things around and got a much more interesting picture about 1am.
16 The first picture is of my basement wall, about 3 feet in front of the lens.
17 The picture is very dark, because it's a concrete wall with tar on it that
18 was once an exterior surface. The speckling is dirt and sawdust clinging to
19 the wall. The only "interesting" feature is the vertical stripe near the
20 right, which is a piece of metal electrical conduit that will someday bring
21 power to one of the outlets on the wall.
23 The second picture is of me, Bdale N3EUA, about 3 feet from the lens, with
24 the background showing the telecom rack and server table holding the server
25 this web page is on in the background wrapped in plastic to keep the dust
26 from the construction away, and to the left is the east wall window out of
27 my new basement workshop.
29 The pictures come out of the camera as "quick pictures" in BMP format but
30 byte-swapped. I used 'dd conv=swap' to swap the bytes, then used 'xv' to
31 tweak them. The picture of the wall is heavily gamma-corrected since it
32 started out nearly black, the picture of me was rotated and reversed to
33 correct for my having the SCOPE EM "not right side up" when I took the
34 picture... but it is otherwise untouched. These were taken with a 1000ms
35 exposure time in a fairly dark room.
37 Perhaps tomorrow I'll try retrieving a full-resolution, full-color image...
39 <li> <a href="scpica1.jpg">The Wall</a>, 3k jpeg
40 <li> <a href="scpica2.jpg">An almost-elated Bdale!</a>, 5k jpeg
45 <h2> 11 October 1998 </h2>
47 Working on getting RUDAK to boot SCOPE, in Bdale's new basement workshop with
48 no power, no heat, etc etc...
51 <li> <a href="scope_1.jpg">Waiting for Win98 (aka Monica) to load...</a>,
53 <li> <a href="scope_2.jpg">It'll be a nice workshop... someday...</a>,
55 <li> <a href="scope_3.jpg">Hey! It worked! Let's send some email...</a>,
60 <a href="http://www.gag.com/~bdale/">Bdale Garbee</A>, $Id: index.html,v 1.2 1998/09/15 07:19:51 bdale Exp $