30/3 wheeling in jet lagged frm LAX uptown to culver city office of CLUI, the Centre for Land Use Interpretation, [http://www.clui.org] on venice blvd, behind venetian brick ivy covered facade next door to the Museum of Jurrassic Technology [http://www.mjt.org/] - meet with their model maker/ curator eva, and she shows me round the workshop we'll be using clui's exhibition space currently dedicated to the LA transportation mangement system with live traffic scans, and state police server hack aswell as tech explanations of infrastructure systems [induction loops, networked signalling, etc] with matt coolidge from clui we study a map of clui desert research stations and likely sites for the placement of the embedded devices ap0201 [http://www.1010.co.uk/devices.html] [http://www.1010.co.uk/ap0201log.html] 31/3 to http://dangerouscurve.org gallery [downtown in molino/4th st.] to meet with kathy and tim..kathy used to work in FSF with richard stallman, having trained at berkeley where she was taught a classic, purist form of programming...their PA is pretty small but we decide to perform on saturday night [april 3] as the ultimate act on their second monthly night of experimental music. they seemed very impressed by the .mov from ultrasound03, huddersfield from our main site [http://www.1010.co.uk] back at clui we recognise Lori, from next door at the jurassic museum...because she is the girlfriend of John Wiseman [http://lemonodor.com/] a Lisp/robotic/technical author/programmer who we've been aware of for a while...in fact he was just here with his big ol' 60's car without us knowing - thought we could touch him for a 2.5" hard drive we're lacking.......and we contact http://www.c-level.cc 1/4 concentrating on preparing for saturdays performance at dangerous curve - both record decks are made and tested with Mozarts Requiem in chinese [bought at the nearby branch of Goodwill], and now a new hitachi 15gb hard drive from the local venice blvd computer store enables martin to start work on the Sony Vaio, necessary for the video output...a problem with the embedded graphics card [ati 3d rage mobility pm] is that it can't load the dri [direct rendering infrastructure http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ used to create openGL implementations the tecra and mini-itx epia800 both function fine after sorting out the stupid power cables with $18.....load gentoo + ap0202 on to another thinkpad this is the first time ap have relied solely on laptops, inevitable given the usual transportation/configuration issues, and all this preparation goes toward the bilbao performances just after this trip [april28/29 http://www.ciberart-bilbao.net/] still a little jet-lagged cos we still getting up at 5am.....days are long but punctuated by indy 103 fm..... starobrno beer tonight..... 2/4 continuing Vaio work > changed configuration file so doesn't use openGL, just SDL Cheryl comes by 3/4 epia800 [http://www.ultim8pc.co.uk/] /rf-bug/tests > ap buffer running quieter > rf transmitting higher freq. GPS [Magellan Meridian gps] for desert, running gpsman/gpsdrive/gpsd http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/ http://www.gpsdrive.cc/ http://www.pygps.org/gpsd/ problem w. finding way to save tracking image we go to set up in gallery dangerouscurve.org > after a korean transvestites homecoming and classical electro-harmonies from two other performers we play a top heavy [not much bass on PA] feeding in the chinese Requiem. the flattened video still had speed issues but kinda held its own. mexican youth think we're awesome, a poetess acuses me of serial killing, dr mungo wants us to look for him in all the cracks and crevices we can find....huh LA 4/4 go from CLUI pm after meeting john wiseman very briefly. gps slow to kick off but on Interstate10 does so......eventually get to DRS, Hinckley - set up..pull data down from the Magallen onto martins thinkpad using gpsman....and track drawing from LA to DRS is very quiet in desert . data for devices? 5/4 two of three device circuits ok so far, and the third fixed by changing diode.....now discharging batteries for charge cycle test 'phone line/internet set up in an old airstream trailer, coming from the store behind the DRS display center. btw. in the store the Institute of Applied Autonomy have a version of graffitti writer [http://www.appliedautonomy.com/] into Barstow CA for provisions > along Main St. after going on to the BLM [Bureau of Land Management] office [http://www.ca.blm.gov/barstow/] to pick up a detailed map of the are north of Hinkley - "Surface Management Status Desert Access Guide: Cuddeback Lake" detailing public/private parcels, restricted zones, etc. North of the DRS lies the Black Mountain Wilderness, a possible area discussed with matt of Clui for placement for the devices. Barstow - motels/liquor/Vons/fencing supplies/Goodspeed Autos/white/mexicano mic + adc sensitivities changed up in code > need testing over time start opamp/electromagnetic freq. detector 6/4 up early, outside with one device to test charge cycle and a full day of coding on the fly > rewriting garbage collection + emf detector circuit building, against high desert winds, westerlies > locating devices one aerial per device [transmit/receive] changes to reparse code and debugging but still slow functioning sleep code untested thur 8/4 LA silicone sortaclear 40 for case gasket/wall [http://www.smooth-on.com/liqrubr.htm] fr 9/4 small cumulative changes to code for endurance size of solar panels [have 2 differing sizes] + discharging issue activity log from serial port - still functioning slowly code error - size of cell space was 2550 bytes but cell size allocated was 32kb [aside from a few pages for transmit/receive buffers] so upped to 26000 better and max. number of cells is now 400 [so changes to int16] and initlively is 1000 larger solar panel doesn't discharge despite 22v out in sun - 6v regulator is a nonsense so will change to adjustable regulator at 7.5v sat 10//4 yesterday we were in the outback along some dirt tracks to find a piece of land in mojave desert where some other ppl are doing a kind of art/ecological thing about moisture http://moisture.greenmuseum.org/ - they bought a piece of land. sun 11/4 adjustable regulators set for all devices still uncertainty as to which code the devices are running, new code works well charge issues - wake up slow and need to be sure on sleep code todo > test sleep, voltage adjust for charge voltage and check wake-up santa fe - 13-19 ap02/gdapp performances at Santa Fe Art Institute wed 21/4 construction of enclosures quirky diy ap style, tho' high spec...high temp. dessicants arrive [http://desiccantcity.com/desiccant_products/tri_sorb.htm]........power cut project getting near completion tho' apart from assemby the other main unattended thing is location location location...we go gps tomorrow at some point....... the silicone things cast as part of it luminesce like that thing the guy in the film repoman drives around wid in the back o'his trunk...... fri 23 two days of scouting around for locations > petrol nearly out, lose still camera and a ripped out tire some beauty bits, green rock hillocks/fingers/caterpillars/dinosaur feet whatever, but scarred by dirt bike tracks is what they do, shoot and dirttrack it.....so gonna put stuff in where humans no wanna go, the flat and dull some problems like lcd panels suddenly went black when out in heat all day - rated operational at 50¼C / 120¼F, reset and power up ok..... another location search, different spot, we there w. gps and detailed map [shows ownership of acre plots/public land...] wandering around not quite sure of relation between gps and map and terrain as tracks marked didn't seem present ...eventually stumbled on mine shaft and a well as reference points..... sat/sun 24/5april using heated wire and tubing > installation of antennae and microphones [encased in heat shrink rubber] installation of devices in remote location harpers dry lake rd . left to Hoffman then right Hoffman and up small hills . mile walk heading easterly final revelation of devices > onto steelwork/fixings as intergral unit [solar panel + enclosure] and after removal of protective paper from acrylic sheet terrain importance > siting in natural dip = low visibility from nearby track [Lockhart Rd]