by chalin | Jul 14, 2018 | Electronics, Home Automation, Projects
That heat wave is bad. And my air conditioner loves dripping wetting the floor. Last year I tried to solve it with a water level sensor, an Arduino, and a relay to turn the power on and off automatically. But the sensor corroded after just a few months. Now with the...
by chalin | Oct 25, 2016 | Announcements, Projects
Alright, this post is incredibly overdue, but I made a new short film! I started this post like four times at different points in the process. One before the IndieGoGo campaign, one in pre-prodution, etc. But I always got busy by working on the short, and never got...
by chalin | Jan 17, 2015 | Practical Tips
The advent of e-readers like the Kindle or Nook made reading on the go easier than ever. Well, for books anyway. The problem with Screenplays (typically shared as PDFs) is that e-readers will typically give you two options to read PDFs. Either cram the full page into...
by chalin | Aug 18, 2014 | Announcements, Projects
I recently directed this action music video for a cool band, Kepler. The lead vocals, Carlos Peña is a singer from Guatemala who won Latin American Idol in 2007. We happen to know each other since we were newborns due to the fact that we’re cousins. So when he...
by chalin | Aug 1, 2014 | Adventures, Fun Stuff
My friend Rebecca let us borrow her Google Glass so we could take them jetpacking. I was nervous about flying with Glass over the ocean, but I saw other videos and pictures of people using it on a water slide and in the shower, so I decided to give it a shot. I...