Educator. Engineer. Experimenter.
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…
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!
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
Mead Botanical Garden is located in Winter Park, FL just north east of the Orlando Science Center. It is 48-acres of park – forest, gardens, ampitheaters, paths, ponds, bridges, etc. with plenty of birds, insects, and reptiles to find. Here is a thorough history timeline of the gardens. It is open 7 days a week,…
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…
There is a great little Irish pub in downtown Orlando away from the main street called Harp & Celt. It’s actually two separate pubs connected together. In addition to a great atmosphere and occasional authentic music, the food is very good as well, including some classics, Americans dishes, and currys. A local group of musicians…
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 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 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…
I’ve been flying a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ drone lately for a project. Here are a few captures…