Bok Tower Gardens is located near Lake Wales, FL, about an hour drive southwest of Orlando. The “Singing Tower” itself is an 8-story, 205-foot, beautifully designed and ornately tiled Gothic Revival structure at the top of a very large hill (for Florida). It is called the Singing Tower because it houses one of the few…
Year: 2016
Photogrammetry
Photogrammetry is the process of using images for measurement or 3D model reconstruction. Here is a great article by GaĂ©tan Laure on using a custom drone with a GoPro camera and Agisoft Photoscan to produce a 3D reconstruction of a house. I’ve been working on a project with photogrammetry from images taken by a DJI…
DJI Phantom 2 Vision+
I’ve been flying a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ drone lately for a project. Here are a few captures…
SNES DS9
Apparently, DS9 on the SNES was a thing đŸ˜›
International Week 2016
For International Week this year, my family and I hosted a soirĂ©e for my South East Asian students. Anyone was welcome, but the intention was to connect these young people to one another and strengthen relations between China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. I attended many of these soirĂ©es as an exchange student in Japan. And…
Jack-o’-lanterns 2016
Here are the jack-o’-lanterns we carved this Halloween 2016 – Jack Skellington, a Minion, smiley face, 5-eyed monster, and the Chinese hansi for ghost.
Ada Lovelace Day
Various resources to help you appreciate Ada, Countess of Lovelace as certainly one of the first, if not the very first, documented programmer for a general purpose computing machine. Numbers of Bernoulli program intended for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine: http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/figures/menat6_1-5k.png http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html (Note that Ada’s “Notes” are much longer than the original translation itself) (I thank…
Snail Mail at Warp Speed
If you have to send snail-mail, send it at warp speed! Star Trek stamps available at your local Federal Post Office. https://www.usps.com/stamps/star-trek.htm
Cacti Council @ OrlandoiX
Cacti Council will be @ OrlandoiX16 October 14th-16th. I will see you there! We will be explaining what we do and how you can help kids learning computer science and programming. Apparently there will be many other Full Sailers attending as well. This list is chock full of graduates and current and former instructors: http://www.orlandoix.com/speakers…
50 Years of Voyages
In commemoration… http://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/492880770/much-more-than-a-five-year-mission-star-trek-turns-50