Our research group just bought a couple of these 40 mile range RF transmitters for our Everglades project. Doug Mann and I were tasked with getting them to talk to each other, and to our dismay, no tutorials existed on the interwebs. The documentation was little help because it kept on referring to the development [...]
Guten Tag! I’m posting this from my hotel in Germany. It’s my last night here after attending the Haptic and Audio Interaction Design conference at the Dresden University of Technology. I was presenting my work on the control of audio effects using head position estimation. I’ll have the PDF of the poster and paper in [...]
Being the nerd that I am, I pre-ordered Snow Leopard as soon as I could and also installed it on the same day it shipped. I did a complete reformat of my HD to get rid of all the junk I accumulated during the Leopard days. Much to my dismay, Matlab 2008b did not install [...]
OpenCV is really awesome. I’ve been using the library extensively in my summer research. For those who don’t know what OpenCV is, this is from the main website: OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision) is a library of programming functions mainly aimed at real time computer vision. Example applications of the OpenCV library are Human-Computer Interaction [...]
I ran into a snag when trying to get an xcode project to talk to an Arduino in April. After a bit of researching, I finally got things working with AMSerialPort from Andreas Mayer. I had to tweak it a bit…the method to change the baud rate didn’t work at first, but it’s fixed now. [...]
It’s been a while since my last post, but now the semester is over and my summer schedule is in full swing. I just had to express my joy at the release of the Arduino Mega. For some reason, I’m still scared to enter into the realm of AVR and ARM, so I’ll stick with [...]
Last Friday a lot of components came in the mail for the quadcopter. The first thing I did was assemble to XBee Shield Kit…and it turned out to be much more work than I thought! Click on any image below for a larger preview. Thanks to a helpful guide online the assembly was pretty straightforward, [...]
In a moment of confusion, I downloaded the beta preview of Windows 7. Microsoft has been pretty cool about the whole process. At first, the demand was too high so they pulled the download to add more servers. My download of the entire OS took about 8 minutes. The most advanced operating system and mirror [...]