#buildlog

You can never have too much research under your finger tips!! The above images are from ‘Diablo III: Book of Tyrael’.

Tyrael, formerly the Archangel of Justice, now the Aspect of Wisdom, is a mortal angel —a maverick to the High Heavens, and a stalwart defender of Sanctuary, who opened the gateway to Harrogath and helped destroyed Mount Arreat.

However, if you are looking for a good Diablo 3 Art book, I’d recommend ‘Diablo III: Book of Cain’.  It has the same images (for the most part), more insight into the events of the Diablo 3 game-itself.  As well as, events that led up to it and some the things that happen in the last two game plays.

Compiling //Between Lines// into its first runnable .app. What should be a silent backend process becomes a performance: scrolling hooks, missing imports, warnings, fragments of libraries.

I screen-captured the terminal chatter, then moshed the footage until it collapsed back into noise — the build process as moving texture, a reminder that “distribution” is never clean.

Every dependency is a ghost. Every error is part of the art.

This is the paradox of Process Zine: the tool that generates sound+image is itself just another recursive spectrogram. The app compiles, crashes, rebuilds, loops.

// recursive audiovisual translation begins here //

And making mistakes is frustrating.

With a frame ready, we proceeded to assemble the electronics. It seemed our drone would be ready soonest. The next steps were connections and calibration.

Now, we decided to calibrate using Mission Planner. It’s a fully-featured, easy to use program made by ArduPilot, who also made the controller we are using. One of the good things about the program is that the whole UAV does not have to be assembled prior to calibration.

One of the steps in calibration is the compass (GPS). Now, there are two commonly used ArduPilots: 2.5 and 2.6. Now, they look very alike but are significantly different: 2.5 has an in-built compass, 2.6 does not and requires an external compass.

Due to this, their prices are significantly different, the 2.6 being significantly cheaper. We had purchased a 2.6. *yup, being the cheapskates we are*

On that day, with eager hopes, we watched Mission Planner inform us that it could not detect compass. One of us had travelled into town for this. f%*gis#!