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Sun, Jun. 14th, 2009, 10:10 am
Alva Noto - Unitxt

Sun, May. 31st, 2009, 10:34 am
Save Yourself



I've been following Masahiko Inami's work for years, but I'd never seen this video before. You've probably heard me talk about GVS before, but check out this application of it. Evil.

Mon, May. 4th, 2009, 09:15 am
The best augmented reality video you'll see in the next 5 seconds

Me too (doing some AR stuff)! from Anatoly Zenkov on Vimeo.



And the music is a track called Bumpy Bump Face, which is one of the best names for anything ever (but my god googling it brings up horrible results).

Sun, May. 3rd, 2009, 02:06 pm
New projects at NP Labs

Workin on new toys


I've got a few new projects on the radar.

libomron

This is a framework for accessing the USB capabilities of Omron medical equipment, specifically the Omron 790IT Blood Pressure Monitor at the moment. There has been some talk online about accessing their pedometers in a cross platform manner (reference: dullest.com), and I'm hoping the protocol for that and their other blood pressure monitors are basically the same, so I can extend the protocol parsing to the whole family of products.

libambx

libambx is an open source, cross platform library for the Ambx ambient environment feedback system that I'm working on in conjunction with the people at Electrosthetics. I'm currently working on reversing the ambx communications protocol (document available here). It's nice to work with someone else on this stuff for once.

libnifalcon updates

libnifalcon is still coming along nicely, if a bit slow at the moment since I'm stuck on some rather difficult problems with firmware loading and kinematics. It's been used in a couple of papers (including this one on teleoperation of an insectbot), and there's also been some work on porting it to Chai3d for use in the Dimple environment for physical interaction with sound.

Wed, Apr. 22nd, 2009, 01:47 pm
It's on

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My AmbX system came in today

I've been talking about reverse engineering this for 4 years.

Now I have one.

Rainbow technofarts by the weekend!

Tue, Mar. 31st, 2009, 09:51 am
Bit.Flow



via PixelSumo

Fri, Mar. 6th, 2009, 11:14 pm
44444

Wed, Feb. 25th, 2009, 09:19 pm
Circulafloor



via VR Geek Blog

Tue, Jan. 27th, 2009, 10:47 am
Yup.



Photo by imweasel

So, what'd you do this weekend?

Sat, Jan. 17th, 2009, 04:25 pm
28: Year in Review

Well, most people do these at the end of the year. However, to both avoid the flood and because my birthday is far more important than NYE, it's time for my year "day before my birthday" review.

Prior years

  • 27
  • None for 26 (Moved to SF, started at Linden, the end)
  • 25 (Another one of these will kill me)
  • None for 24 (It involved a lunar rover and titties. That sums it up pretty well)
  • 23


January



February

  • Finish Mass Effect
  • Work on developing a controls system for my first actual fucking machine. Fail, and quadruple the total amount of parts I've made magic smoke escape from in the process.


March



April



May

  • Idly do a search for robotics in jobs on craigs list, just to see what happens. Find one that sounds intriguing. End up quitting my job at Linden and starting anew at 510 Systems.
  • Spend month freaking the fuck out that I just changed jobs


June



July



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September



October



November



December



January



So yeah, all in all, not too bad. Can't really complain. Here's hoping for a year of more modern art performance and random adult product mailings.

Wed, Jan. 14th, 2009, 09:53 am
Nine Inch Snails

Wed, Dec. 31st, 2008, 01:48 pm
How to properly spend a New Years Eve

How to spend an NYE

Fuck parties, fuck people, and fuck things ending in either 8 OR 9.

This is how you properly spend a New Years Eve.

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