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Category Archives: video
YoloBox Pro, Madden 2001, and a Reason to Stream
The rainy weekend in Trento provided a good excuse to play with the YoloBox Pro that’s been sitting on my shelf. I regularly chat with Tim about all the streaming he’s doing at Reclaim Arcade, which was an added push … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi Video Looper on Zero Pi W
After some frustration with the motion detection bit of the Creepshow diorama, I took solace in getting a $10 Zero Pi W (version 1.1) up and running with Raspberry Pi Video Looper. Essentially this project turns the Pi into a … Continue reading
Reclaim’s Daystream Nation
It’s an anthem in a vacuum on a hyperstation Daydreaming days in a daydream nation Not sure exactly what hyperstation means in the Sonic Youth song “Trilogy” quoted above, but I do love the way it sounds. Maybe it’s alluding … Continue reading
ReclaimEDU: the Infomercial
I had the good fortune to do a stream last week with Pilot and Maren about ReclaimEDU, something we’ve been doing for clients for well over a year now, but have not pushed more broadly until just recently. “What is … Continue reading
The bava Media Center
The bava media center, featuring a Sony Trinitron 19” television to the far left with a Commodore 128 right below it. Beneath that is a used Panasonic DP-U89000 DVD Blu-ray/UHD multi-region player for the new fangled higher-end media. Continue reading
Hacking the Pioneer DVL-909 for Multi-Region
This is one of those posts that documents something I’ll forget as soon as it’s done. I’ve already written about fixing the power supply and skipping discs on my Pioneer DVL-909 combination Laserdisc/DVD player, both fixes allow me to enjoy … Continue reading
A Campus Divided
For the 35th episode of Reclaim Today, I had the distinct pleasure to sit down with professor Riv-Ellen Prell and artist Livia Foldes to discuss their collaborative project A Campus Divided: Progressives, Anticommunists, Racism, and Antisemitism at the University of Minnesota, … Continue reading
bavaweekly 3-13-2022
Last week’s bavaweekly was a bit delayed given how jam-packed last week was. Between heading to Vicenza to pick up a few video game cabinets and then catching up from taking Tuesday off things snowballed and I was not able … Continue reading
Streaming Jitsi through Peertube Live
? One of the cool things Taylor Jadin discovered recently is is easy it is to stream a Jitsi web video call through PeerTube. After creating a live stream in PeerTube, you would crab the stream URL and the stream … Continue reading
Dreaming of an Open Source ReclaimTV
After my chat with Taylor about open source media ecosystems I was inspired return to the work we did around the TV metaphor for OERxDomains21 in terms of community programming. But rather than relaying on YouTube for both streaming and … Continue reading