Comments on: Resistors 400 pixels long http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/11/resistors-400-pixels-long/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: hedgehog http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/11/resistors-400-pixels-long/#comment-1107 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:29:29 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/11/resistors-400-pixels-long/#comment-1107 Wow, it's interesting to see that this old hard drive controller boasts a few 7W audio amplifier chips, probably for amplifying the signal to and from the write head. I'm not even an electronics geek (much) and I noticed that. What is this from, an RLL drive? http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/T/B/A/8/TBA810P.shtml Wow, it’s interesting to see that this old hard drive controller boasts a few 7W audio amplifier chips, probably for amplifying the signal to and from the write head.

I’m not even an electronics geek (much) and I noticed that. What is this from, an RLL drive?

http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/T/B/A/8/TBA810P.shtml

]]> by: jwaddell http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/11/resistors-400-pixels-long/#comment-871 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:33:14 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/11/resistors-400-pixels-long/#comment-871 Speaking of unusual uses for scanners, this reminded me of the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060205050520/www.scannerphotography.com/" rel="nofollow">Scanner Photography Project</a> (looks like his site was costing him too much so is only found at archive.org now), where a guy created a 115 MP camera using a flat-bed scanner. It appears to be a burgeoning field, as there are a lot of hits for a google search on "scanner camera"! Speaking of unusual uses for scanners, this reminded me of the Scanner Photography Project (looks like his site was costing him too much so is only found at archive.org now), where a guy created a 115 MP camera using a flat-bed scanner. It appears to be a burgeoning field, as there are a lot of hits for a google search on “scanner camera”!

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/11/resistors-400-pixels-long/#comment-870 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:16:00 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/11/resistors-400-pixels-long/#comment-870 Back in the Before Time of the Web, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Bleszinski" rel="nofollow">CliffyB</a> had a "cat scans" site featuring many examples of what you describe here. Old three-pass scanners produced particularly trippy results. That site's been defunct <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20021113122746/http://www.cat-scan.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">for a long time</a>, but you can still find cat scans (mixed up entertainingly with CAT scans) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/catscan/clusters/" rel="nofollow">on Flickr</a>, among other places. (The budget version is to just take a picture of your cat from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandylee/369572311/" rel="nofollow">under a glass table</a>.) Back in the Before Time of the Web, CliffyB had a “cat scans” site featuring many examples of what you describe here. Old three-pass scanners produced particularly trippy results.

That site’s been defunct for a long time, but you can still find cat scans (mixed up entertainingly with CAT scans) on Flickr, among other places.

(The budget version is to just take a picture of your cat from under a glass table.)

]]> by: knute http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/11/resistors-400-pixels-long/#comment-869 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:44:09 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/11/resistors-400-pixels-long/#comment-869 My cat used to have a thing for laying on my flatbed scanner. So one day I took the top off and sure enough, she climbed right on and went to sleep. So a few quick clicks later, voila! A cat scan! I'll get me coat. My cat used to have a thing for laying on my flatbed scanner. So one day I took the top off and sure enough, she climbed right on and went to sleep. So a few quick clicks later, voila! A cat scan!

I’ll get me coat.

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