Preparing to Build Florida’s First Earthship Home

roblimo | Bradenton/local, Business, Tech, Videos | Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Contractor Bryan Roberts is building Florida’s first Earthship right here in Manatee County — and if you’re a college student (or have part of this summer free, anyway), you can participate in a Greencamp and learn the ins and outs of Earthship building yourself.

The original ‘Point & Click Linux’ book trailer

roblimo | Business, Tech, Videos | Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Local video genius Damen Shaqiri and I made this back in 2004. Totally loopy, an experiment in many ways. I forgot I had the file. What the heck. Maybe you'll get a kick out of it. (The book is totally obsolete, BTW. Desktop Linux has come a *long* way since 2004.

The infamous "throw the laptop into the ocean" scene was shot on Lido Key in Sarasota, FL. Not that it matters. We chose that beach because Mike, a guy who helped us with the production, needed some help putting a boat on a trailer (NOT the video kind) at the nearby Sarasota Sailing Squadron, and it was a convenient place for us to meet.

A conversation with Sun VP James Gosling and MySQL’s Monty Widenius, David Axmark, and Brian Aker

roblimo | Business, Tech, Videos | Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Originally published (and made for) Linux.com

Linux.com Weekly Wire #3

roblimo | Tech, Videos | Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Accompanying text, including mentioned links, are at Linux.com.

Linux.com Weekly Wire #2 (video)

roblimo | Tech, Videos | Monday, December 17th, 2007

You really want to read the text at Linux.com, too. :)

Linux.com Weekly Wire #1 (video)

roblimo | Stories, Tech, Videos | Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Naturally, you’ll want to go to Linux.com to see the story links Lisa mentions. :) Besides that, this is a pretty good example of how to make a “talking head” video interesting enough to watch for over four minutes, which isn’t the easiest task in the world.

Fedora 8 GNU/Linux Video Tour

roblimo | Tech, Videos | Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Few people in the Bradenton area know that a lot of the videos I make — the ones for my “day job” — are about computer software. This is a fairly good sample of narrated software screen-capture video. It’s #1 from a set of 3. You can watch the others at Linux.com.

PS - If you need software demo or training videos, Talk to me. I love making screen capture videos, and I’m obviously rather good at it. :)

I Read It On Slashdot (Original Song/Video)

roblimo | Bradenton/local, Humor, Tech, Videos | Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

I own and wear a lot of Slashdot t-shirts, so it’s no wonder that people I meet here in Bradenton often ask me, “What’s a Slashdot?” Sometimes I try to answer them, but since this part of Florida is for the most part in about 1997 when it comes to IT & WWW technology, I tend to get a lot of blank stares when I try to explain Slashdot. More and more, I tend to just say, “It’s a discussion site for techies and you wouldn’t like it.” So I found this video on YouTube that’s about Slashdot and decided to post it here. If you don’t know what and why Slashdot is, it’ll probably confuse you more than it enlightens you, but what the hey! Slashdot’s as much of a cult as a website. It’s something you either get or don’t get. And so is this video by Carl Davis.

The modular car we can’t buy… yet

roblimo | Business, Tech | Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

A modern electric-drive hybrid car consists of a series of discrete mechanical systems, The major ones are:

  • Electric motors (ideally built into the wheel assemblies)
  • Batteries (drive the motors; recharged either when the car is plugged in or from an onboard generator system)
  • Onboard generator/battery charger
  • Power source for generator (can be gasoline engine, fuel cell, diesel… whatever)
  • Computer-based control system (to make everything work smoothly together; also powers lights, turn signals, wipers, and other accessories)
  • Brakes (same as in today’s cars)
  • Steering (same as in today’s cars)
  • Suspension (same as in today’s cars)
  • Chassis (hopefully better than in today’s cars)
  • Body (hopefully better than in today’s cars)
  • Passenger & cargo accomodations (seats, trunk, etc.)
  • Amenities (A/C & heat, music players, phones, navigation, etc.)

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WeMedia @ Miami University, Feb 2007

roblimo | Stories, Tech, Videos | Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

The 3rd annual WeMedia conference held by iFocos. I call this style a “video medley” because it uses snippets of a number of sessions and comments about the event in much the same way a musical medley uses parts of several songs to create a whole that may be greater than the sum of its parts.

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