Day started with a small queue to access the show­ers and a break­fast table side projects meeting.

Today’s plan for world dom­i­na­tion involved:
– Con­nect­ing OSCu­lat­tor with Pachube
– Track­ing fish in the fish tank
– Cook­ing bio­plas­tic sam­ple exper­i­ments
– Twit­ter bot with pro­cess­ing and/or javascript
– Tak­ing apart old key­boards
– Plan­ning a real­time vide­owall for AZ Labs

Most of the goals were reached despite the usual setbacks.

Bio­plas­tic is sick. It’s basi­cally starch, water, glyc­er­ine and vine­gar stired together and heated slowly to a pasty bub­bly form that takes a day to strengthen up. Today we cooked a few vari­a­tions of the stan­dard recipe to make a few sam­ple exper­i­ments with dif­fer­ent ingre­di­ent ratio, cook­ing time and thick­ness, to com­pare the prop­er­ties and pos­si­bly maybe prob­a­bly fig­ure out some inter­est­ing use for them in future projects. They take about a day to cure, so we have no con­clu­sions just yet, but we’re all pretty sick of the smell of vine­gar by now! Stay tuned for the fol­low up, com­ing to an hack­er­space blog near you soon.

Fish are nice. We like fish. Fil­ipe brought some with him and seems to be plan­ning some cute track­ing sys­tem instal­la­tion. A crack in the main exper­i­ments tank hold him back a few hours while the sil­i­cone patch dried up, so it isn’t quite oper­a­tional just yet, but we’re already work­ing hard on the next evil step for world dom­i­na­tion: devis­ing a clever way to cen­tral­ize and reuse his lit­tle fishies track­ing val­ues. And share them with the world while we’re at it. Who knows who might need a bowl fish track­ing stream of val­ues out there.

We took a lit­tle walk wan­der­ing about Montemor-o-Novo, quite a peace­ful town as it turns out, we man­aged to find an open restau­rant with some excel­lent tra­di­tional Por­tuguese food, which was nice. Mean­while, back in the new tech world, our plans for tonight’s generic audio mis­chief jam got held back by the lack of a mix table, some lag with nin­jam wire­less and an all­nighter live broad­cast stream pump­ing out of Autechre’s web­site.