New blog

Decided to migrate my blog from my own Movable Type installation to blogger.com. Migration was easier than I expected using MovableType2Blogger.
Also, a freshened up the front page a little.

Software odds and ends

Decided to upload some old, but not entirely useless, old programs I've written. You can find them at the odds and ends page. They are not really usable pieces of software, but might serve as a starting point or inspiration for someone. Currently, I have three programs up:

1. Animtext: A text animation creation tool. I wrote this back in high school (or the Finnish equivalent) to generate the end credits sequence for a student film project. Perfect for cheesy amateur hacker films!
2. powermate qt test: A Qt4 based test program for the Griffin Powermate. Accesses the powermate via Linux event interface. (powermate driver is in the official kernel tree)
3. tablet qt test: A Qt4 test program for (wacom) tablets. Useful for checking if Qt (or X) tablet support is configured properly.
   

Tesla coil

Just added a new page about my Tesla coil.
I first started building the coil over ten years ago, but never got around to finishing it. My new coil is not exactly same as the one I first started building, but I did use the components from the original one.

The coil is around 35cm high, uses a 4kV neon sign transformer as its power supply, and currently produces sparks about 15 to 20cm long.

Here is a video of the coil in action:

Website revamped

I decided to change the website layout back to something simpler. Some content, such as the old blender tutorials and models, I dropped altogether.