rg42.org aka. Robin Gareus www

About

2008-08-12T16:48:08+00:00

Media ~~Art~~ Research Development and Design. About robin, founder of RSS.

Characteristics

Audio/Video production and software development therefore.
Hardware/Software Co-design
IT concept, consulting, project-management and or implementations.
Multi-media installations
DAQ, data-mining, SQL optimizations or admin.
Website back-end and network infrastructure.
artistic Sound-design and hobby Music

If you're interested in hiring me, email me for a PDF CV and recommendations; Depending on your project I can arrange for, or recommend additional team members. Much of my code is available online, just have a look around here or at sourceforge. Since code is not everything..

Vision

As of 2008 I look back on over 11 Years of being on gnu/Linux. It's been a steep hill, but the view and possibilities up here are gorgeous.

I'm dreaming of a world where professional artistic creativity is free of financial interest and dependencies. - surely you're grinning now - I'll retain a sad smile upon this Utopia and point to ongoing efforts instead: linuxaudio.org, blender.org or ardour.org.

To me Free Software (FLOSS) represents the railroad track of the 21 century. Analog to modern trains that have evolved beyond dreams of the 14th and 17th century railroad pioneers, postmodern software needs to rely on open standards in order to become self sustainable. The fact that the fastest engine of the day is commercial does not bother me too much as long as it can run on an open infrastructure.

I'm a pragmatic proponent of “Nimm's wie es kommt, aber sorge dafuer das es so kommt wie Du es nehmen willst..” - For the time being the best thing that could happen to me would be have a larger studio; but I won't say no to a copy of musimathics or a box of dark chocolate.

Living on free software

Demanding Art-Installations were hard to get by, so I went to gain experience assembling the postgeSQL live-cd, got hackactive at open-search.org, added geo-info to greenpeace.nl, pushed ipodlinux and ended up as a LAD running http://linuxaudio.org since late 2005. Besides free-lance and non-profit work I was employed parttime by sonologic and mediamatic-lab in Amsterdam on the quest for my own studio.

As diverse as much of my work may seem they, they all have a common theme: scientific-challenge and a good portion of 70's free-feeling.

castles made of virtual sand: * xjadeo - external sync video player

frontera - interactive motion tracking/video installation
libltcsmpte - linear time code parser
RFID powered Photobooth
various soundtracks, sound-designs and installations: marzipanmovie, Spectacle
jack audio port for openmovieeditor.org, prototype backends for lumiera.
funny promotion recordings - recorded and mixed with ardour
Overview of Open Source Software.

Public Affairs:

hosted linux-workshops at URZ-Heidelberg (1999-2002)
moderated open-search workshop at University of Amsterdam and the 23CCC in Berlin.
robin is mailto:root@linuxaudio.org since 2005.
participated in [http:puredata.info|pure-data]] workshops (mediamatic2007, LAC2008)
co-hosted the Hacker's camp at Picnic 2007 (preparing for 2008)
provided online services for the LAC2008 conference.
and helped to organize the Federated Social Networks Bar-Camp Amsterdam 2007/2008.
implemented the frontera installation at the Netherlands Institute for Media Art spring/summer 2008.

Interests and Technical Specs

see my CV for an overview of programming languages, publications and projects.

reVision

After departing the save haven of university (graduating 2002 in Physics, Univ. of Heidelberg and CERN) I spent two years as engineer at Berkely Lab before relocating to Amsterdam, NL in 2005 where I turned towards full-time open-source hardware/software development. I work as engineer and consultant usually in teams of one to five, occasionally part of larger collaborations.

expertise

It is hard to make a living on the FLOSS edge which requires flexibility and ingenuity, leading to a broad spectrum of expertise:

from FPGAs to Microcontrollers
from data-acquisition to data-mining
protocol and interaction design
from system-admin to system development
consulting, implementation and deployment
customized hi-end A/V multimedia applications.

interests

I'm eager to join larger projects but am still amazed how much one can squeeze out of a cheap PIC micro-controller. I like to be in reach of a complete project, design top-down, build from low-level relying on stable gnu-tools. Much inspiration and help comes from friends, colleagues and project-team mates.

Universities offered a good time of hardware development which is unfortunately hard to finance as freelancer. However my degree in Physics (2nd subjects: maths, electronics and harware-informatics) got me a solid background on solving problems. which is what I enjoy doing most.

More recently I'm working towards professional Audio/Video engineering. They're both two different but related beasts where maths-skills and scientific thinking comes in handy. I've had a few live performances, but am mostly acting behind the scenes. There are a few celebrated pieces, eg. the soundtrack for award-winning marzipanmovie.com; yet I'm still on the never ending road to learn the subtleties of mastering music.

Besides I'm a huge fan of inline replies and ascending time.

The Battery

2010-01-08T17:53:31+00:00

…once a symbol of power, it rarely fits into anything these days.

I've still got a few of those Panasonics sitting around here awaiting their disposal and hope Panasonic(TM) don't mind me using a picture of their product!

Contact

2010-05-17T23:24:06+00:00

RSS

84bis Rue de Grenelle
75007 Paris
France

email: robin AT gareus DOT org
xmpp : rgareus (AT) ik.nu

You may use the following PGP key to encrypt your mail or to verify my signatures: Public Key or via http://pgp.mit.edu/
Fingerprint : 7107 840B 4DC9 C948 076D 6359 7955 24F1 4F95 2B42

Legal Mumbo-Jumbo

gareus.org and it's vhosts are maintained by Robin Gareus.

The content of pages referenced using external links is under the responsibility of the respective author. At the time of linking, I could not find any illegal or offending content there. If you find a change in this, please inform me: robin [at] gareus [dot] org. I am not responsible for content provided by others in public editable areas of my sites (wiki, comments, forums), however if you find anything objectionable, please mail me as well and I will see to remove it.

Most of the content on this site is can be used in Terms of the Gnu Public License. If no content license is specified please inquire by email.

2006-04-04T00:58:40+00:00

Games

2008-07-01T23:58:17+00:00

I rarely play computer games - unless you consider unix a game.

my games

well there are a few games I've been implementing. The only public on my site is a clone of Stratego including an experimental AI, but there is more to come…

WebStratego

Wiki Page and getting Started Information
WebStratego
Create Account

Ajax Chess

online Chess
Create Account

Web Goban

Go - alpha devel

Games I like ..

.. and even spent time walking thu them:

enigma
myth, riven, exile, uru
ScummVM (Maniac Mansion, Flight of the Amazon Queen, etc..)
loads of old C64 games… (giana-sisters, paradroid,..)

2006-04-25T16:18:44+00:00

Robin's Webhome

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The Magnet & Spinflip Chart

2007-03-13T17:59:25+00:00

This website is undergoing reconstruction.

2006-11-09T04:45:50+00:00

Text only WWW sitemap

2008-07-02T00:30:51+00:00

Tools:

Namespaces:

WWW: (pages for the game-like web interface)

server statistics

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mrtg

https://stats.rg42.org/mrtg/

AW Stats - Virtual Hosts

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gareus.org

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Time

2008-08-06T20:39:51+00:00

a funny thing, isn't it?

The animated clock image on http://gareus.org is in Memoriam to Yariv Alter Fin who engaged me to learn javascript with him in the early 2000s. kudos forever.