Pimp my Windows Box
When I first started at Google, I wrote a short article on the essential utilities I add to an OSX machine when it’s brand new. A friend at work recently asked me what I do when I set up a Windows machine and thus…
Home Automation Armageddon!
I have a friend who is new to programming and has asked me how I do it. It made me reflect for a minute to think about the patterns I take while learning something new or even completely broken and then get…
Building a Hexacopter
It’s been a while since I last wrote about multirotors and I have learned a lot since then. The DJI Phantom I started with had a few upgrades done to it: Carbon fiber blades were added Body was painted black The mainboard…
Programming an Adafruit LED matrix
The plan For Halloween, I am making costumes that are like discos and for the costume I wanted to create a light setup that would flash colored lights off of the costume. I wanted to support various modes like a beating heart: a…
Razer Switchblade + Winamp Love
I have been working on a side project to extend the Winamp visualization to the Razer Switchblade UI. My project is entirely based upon the Tiny3D visualization framework’s wrapper for Winamp plugins because the Winamp IP has…
Would you [re]program yourself?
It’s been a running joke for me that, “Hey, what’s the worst that could happen if there’s a bug in this demo or example, right?” The joke came from when I was a young programmer and worked alongside many of…
A few odds and ends
I have a few odds and ends that I have been trying to put together into full posts, but for now it’s not gonna happen. Instead, I’ll share some thoughts as previews for posts that may or may not happen in the near or far future.
Building a Graphic Equalizer using a Netduino and SPI LED strips
This blog post covers how I put together an SPI-based LED VU meter using a Netduino. There is also a demo of the setup on a Pioneer DDJ-SX because it looks cool when the meters match up with beats.
Multi-rotors, Drones, Quad-copters, oh my!
So…. I recently took the plunge into the hobby of multi-rotor robotics! I purchased a DJI Phantom (pictured during repairs): It’s an amazing piece of machinery and comes ready to fly (RTF). My first flight was a trip, I opened…
Dead simple App Engine static hosting
I have no idea why, but I have had tons of trouble finding a simple example for hosting app engine. I have been working on a client-side only site so all I wanted to do was host some static content….