Tonight I attended a live recording of NPR’s Science Friday at the Bob Carr Theater here in Orlando, hosted by WMFE-FM 90.7. It was very cool to see Ira Flatow in person reading lines for the show, cracking jokes, and interviewing guests. The show featured robots, prosthetics, live music, and space exercise. And to top…
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Mech VR Simulator
A team of 3 students in our Simulation & Visualization degree here at Full Sail University created a Mech Warrior / MadCat simulation using: Unity3D, VR w/ Oculus Rift, Moog 6DOF motion base, custom CNC routed console, Arduino, LEDs, digital scent technology, etc. I got to check it out the other day during a live demo…
Composing to FFT
I’m currently composing music for a new tactics game that my friends are working on. And because the team doesn’t have any visuals for me yet, I’m actually composing to Final Fantasy Tactics! As a huge fan, this is heavenly. I’m no Hitoshi Sakimoto, but I’m having a hell of a lot of fun!
Star Trek DS9 Documentary!
UPDATE 5/13/2019: I saw it in theaters! UPDATE 3/11/2017: More than funded! Every ST DS9 fan’s dream come true… A Star Trek DS9 documentary!! Indiegogo campaign: https://igg.me/at/DS9Doc/x#/ More links: http://www.startrek.com/article/ds9-documentary-underway http://www.treknews.net/2017/02/09/ds9-documentary-what-we-left-behind/ http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-new-deep-space-nine-documentary-reveals-what-would-ha-1792170830
Scripts For .pgm Files
Created some scripts to help with processing .pgm files, which are simple intensity grayscale files, often the output of a special sensor, such as an IR camera. The scripts can be found here: https://github.com/delrocco/pgmhelper original/cups.pgm scaled/cups.pgm visible/cups.png colored/cups.png processpgm.sh wraps the scripts below for a .pgm -> color image conversion pgmhelper.py various functionality for working…
Otronicon 2017
Here are some photos from Otronicon 2017 at the Orlando Science Center. My non-profit, Cacti Council, had a booth as well. We meet with K-12 students, faculty, administrators and clubs, sometimes with university student volunteers, to promote logic, computer science, and programming topics. At Otronicon, we were building simple games with Google IgniteCS Here is…
Bok Tower Gardens
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…
Photogrammetry
Photogrammetry is the process of using images for measurement or 3D model reconstruction. Here is a great article by Gaétan 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 😛