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2022/03/25 Beyond Wonderland Socal

π 2022-03-25 01:01 in Clubbing, Festivals

This was my first beyond wonderland in socal, my last one was 6 years prior 10mn from my house at Shoreline. The setup on this one was definitely better given the extra room at that location, and Insomniac generally going all out a bit more every year:

Festival Grounds

Lots of nice places or people to hang out:

Definitely looking good at night:

People

One thing Insomniac really does well is the amount of costumed perfomers:

Of course, I also had fun playing with the crowd and decors :)

this was an unusual find :)

People were there to have fun as always :)

And great to run into friends as usual:

Hi Chris, thanks again for all your work

Day #1

Anyway, let's get to the festival days. The first day had a good trance lineup, so I mostly hung out with the trance DJs, even if I went to see a few other ones too:

the visuals were pretty bad ass

And Blastoyz finished the night with a banging set I entirely recorded:

he was able to bring his parents on stage

Video of Day #1:

Day #2

Day #2 was not a trance day, so it was a good excuse to see other stages

Ben Nicky was a surprisingly enjoyable set

Netsky was some good DnB

Then was time for the end of the night with Seven Lions and Above and Beyond:

and free infomercial :)

Video of Day #2:

Definitely a lot of fun, exceeded expectations. Thanks to Anna for the recommendation.

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2022/03/25 Another flight to/from San Bernardino, via Victorville and Edwards AFB

π 2022-03-25 01:01 in Nflying

It had been many years since I last flew to San Bernardino, so going to Beyond Wonderland was a good reason to do the flight again.

The flight down was very easy although slow due to head wind:

there is a new self driving car test track next to PAO

PAO still very busy and constantly being repaved for the last 2 years

new google campus

nice shot of Moffett

beautiful day for a picture of the apple campus

I didn't even know there was a small ski resort north of San Bernardino

San Bernardino is not a busy airport, it's used for plane storage

safely on the ground

After the event, the flight home was at the perfect time before storms were due to arrive at destination:

I took the flight path towards victorville to see all the parked planes:

Then, my favorite is Edwards Air Force Base, which you're allowed to overfly on sundays when it's not being used. Super cool:

awesome overfly, until next time...

We then got back to Palo Alto before the weather started to turn too much:

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2022/03/22 Putting some P5 64x32 Azerone Panels To Good Use, a Big 128x192 Matrix

π 2022-03-22 01:01 in Arduino

Azerone was nice enough to send me some returned RGBPanels, including a bunch of P5 ones, so I started making a matrix with them:

And by the time I was almost done, I got 4 more, so that was enough for 192x128 with 12 panels. That happened to be the exact resolution of my LED outfit, although that one was 128x192. For wiring reasons and optimizing refresh speed with 3 parallel channels, I wired the array the wrong way display wise, but the best way hardware-wise:

Thankfully rpi-rgb-panel has a mode to flip, mirror and rotate the output, so it was easy to get back a 128x192 display, and run th exact same code that my outfit. This nicely allowed me to see the same thing between P2 and P5 pixels:

I now have 3 frames, fun :)

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2022/03/18 Markus Schulz at Pure Nightclub

π 2022-03-18 01:01 in Clubbing

Glad that events have been coming back and we get to see our favorite DJs more often now. Markus coming at Pure, just next door, was of course an event not to miss.