I did my first experiment for a timelapse video using iStopMotion last night. It’s nothing spectacular. I just pointed the EyeToy toward the street/horizon, and let it run taking a frame every 12 seconds. Here’s the end result:
Today, I decided I wanted to get my PS3’s EyeToy working with my macbook. I like the idea of timelapse video, but hate the idea of pointing my laptop at something long enough to get a good video. I plugged the camera in but had no luck first off. System Profiler saw the camera, but I couldn’t get it to show up anywhere useful (namely, iStopMotion.) A few google searches led me to Macam . The build I downloaded was from March of 07, so I wasn’t sure it would work. It didn’t.
Another google search took me to Cristiano Betta’s blog, where he apparently had no trouble getting a PS2 Eyetoy to work with leopard. I knew I was missing something, so I went back to the macam download page, and looked for source. The latest CVS build worked just fine, however.
That did it. It works. I wish I could be more descriptive, but that’s all the info I have!
After a long hiatus, jQuery Lightbox has been given a much needed push to completion. Thanks to some help from google code user
On top of that, i’ve made a few tweaks to the animation, which I plan on being an option in 0.6 or 1.0 (if this release works well for all).
I highly recommend that everyone upgrade to this release, as it’s far more feature complete, and feels like a solid product. As always, please comment with any comments/issues, and they’ll hopefully be worked into the next version. For now, download jQuery Lightbox 0.5.
Cheers!
Just a quick note. I started using the Firefox 3 beta this week, and thus far, i’m in love with it. My biggest gripe was the lack of firebug. This has apparently been addressed already in the 1.1 release of firebug. I’ve given it a shot, and so far, it’s working brilliantly. I’m sorry Flock, but I think our love affair has come to a close.
This morning, I needed to rebuild PHP. I haven’t done it in months, but was sure it would be painless. I hadn’t counted on, however, that I’d installed the iPhone SDK at the beginning of this month. The iPhone SDK is Xcode 3.1, which I believe is beta (might not be, no real research.) I think that it also installs gcc 4.2. I forgot both of these facts before I tried to configure my php build. Upon my inital pass, I was greeted with the following error:
configure: warning: –with-zlib: invalid host type
configure: warning: –with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql: invalid host type
configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time
I, of course, didn’t bother to properly troubleshoot the error, as I didn’t really have time to track down a solution. I did, however, manage to get a build in place. I removed the current install of my developer tools, ala:
sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
And then I proceeded to reinstall the tools on my Leopard DVD. I restarted for good measure, and was off to the races. Have any of you encountered this issue?