Hey That’s A Nice Life

‘That was easy.’
courtesy of ‘jaxed’

There was a time when I might have been offended. Last week Susan said that she hasn’t said much to people about my photobooth project because - until that week - she hadn’t been sure I’d pull it off in time. Now that I have been in the software development business for almost 20 years, though, I was flattered and amused.

Flattered because she’s been watching me do various tests and proof-of-concepts the last few months. Those have apparently made her believe that I’ve made enough progress and come up with enough solutions that I would be able to be done by the time the wedding rolls around. It’s nice that I can do things that she finds impressive and sees them as a sign that I’m not a complete boob.

Amused because I know that projects like this follow the 80:20 rule. The last 20% of the project is what takes 80% of your time. The first 80%, of course, takes the other 80% of your time. So now that I’ve gotten all the components doing what they need to do it’s a matter of making them play nice together and putting it all in a neat little box. Well, not so little - “normal” photobooths measure something like 5 feet long, 3 feet wide and over 7 feet high.

Be that as it may, here’s the gist: unless everything goes completely pear-shaped at this point, there will be a big old box you can sit in at our wedding. Press a button - a repurposed Easy button, in fact, like the one pictured above - and it’ll count down, take four pictures of you, do some behind-the-scenes magic, and print them out into a strip like you’d get from a boardwalk photo booth.

You can look forward to some more posts about the pieces and process I’ve gone through and what’s to come.

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