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Pumpktris Project

Posted on October 31, 2017July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

This year for Halloween, a few of us attempted the popular Pumpktris instructable. Pumpktris is a version of Tetris playable in a pumpkin 🙂 Nathan Pryor (HaHaBird) created it. Here is his version in all its glory. It got a lot of interest, from other instructables to local news coverage to BoingBoing. Nathan also made…

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OSX Scripts

Posted on October 18, 2017July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

Disclaimer: I am OS Agnostic. Please don’t send me hate mail about operating systems. So for the last 4 years I’ve been using this MacBook Pro as my main laptop (OSX Mountain Lion through macOS Sierra). I’ve also run Parallels Desktop  for various flavors of Windows, Android, and Fedora. I can honestly say I’ve thoroughly…

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Edit UNIX Shell History

Posted on October 6, 2017July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

On a UNIX system (using bash, though this probably applies to other shells too), the history command not only displays your shell history for you, but it also comes with a suite of options for manipulating it. Though I’ve used UNIX systems here and there for years, I never really knew about this command, and…

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Python Version Toggling

Posted on September 29, 2017July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

If you’ve used Python quite a bit, you know that sometimes the module you want to use is not supported in the version of Python you have installed. Sometimes you can get around this by using a different module. Other times you are forced to install and maintain a completely different version of Python. At…

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Mech VR Simulator

Posted on March 2, 2017July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

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…

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Scripts For .pgm Files

Posted on January 26, 2017July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

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…

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Otronicon 2017

Posted on January 16, 2017July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

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…

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Photogrammetry

Posted on December 14, 2016January 3, 2017 by Joe Del Rocco

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…

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Ada Lovelace Day

Posted on October 11, 2016August 1, 2017 by Joe Del Rocco

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…

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Cacti Council (literally)

Cacti Council

Posted on September 6, 2016July 31, 2017 by Joe Del Rocco

A literal cacti council to celebrate our Cacti Council non-profit, which promotes creative and critical thinking concepts in education, especially computer science and its related disciplines. If you’d like to help out and/or be involved, let us know here.

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