Hi gang, its good to be back. After a spell in the wilderness, I found some new digs/ job/ friends. Anyway for any of you that think ive a penguin fetish or, I was taking the mickey out of Linux, this is how it began.
In my foundation course, one assignment was to create an “Automata”. This is what I threw together out of bits of junk.
Something to do on a Saturday
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z123/bogey61/SomethingtodoonaSaturday.jpg
When the left handle is turned, the penguin chicks play “head the ball” with weather balloon, while the adult penguins heads follow the ball. A tape counter counts the number of times. When the right handle is turned, the adults flap their wings, as if claping.
Something workings
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z123/bogey61/Somethingworkings.jpg
The bits of junk in the mechanism.
Make of it what you will.
Here is as far as I managed to get with the world cup, before I had to initiate extreme emergency backup plan A. I see a lot of the entrants were thinking along the same lines. And there were some excellent submissions.
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z123/bogey61/7.jpg
Bogey
ps, comments welcome and appreciated.
pps, trying to switch to Linux as I type.
ppps, back in 1998