User:Jgrant

Interests

• lighting instruments, from Art Nouveau lamps to motion picture lighting
• especially flashlights and anything involving LEDs
• urban exploration
• large format photography, vintage optics
• Russia
• electricity and electronics
• programming
• financial markets
• civilizations (politics, economics, psychology, history, &c.)
• pipe organs
• architecture
• HP48 calculators

Projects

Current

• a remote control system for a giant softbox (Arduino Mega, XBees, 4 electric hoists, etc.)

Past

• Open Camera Controller
• an optical trigger for photographing splashes, &c.
• a set of landscape lenses for 4x5
• a motion-activated multi-LED light to mount on a hunting feeder

Links

• personal photography site
• blog
• Flickr page

Currently Reading

• Paul Scherz. Practical Electronics for Inventors (+ errata!)
• А. С. Солженицын. Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
• James Douglass. JFK and the Unspeakable