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Experiments in Physical Computing

Registration Points in AS3

One of the frustrations with the Flash Player 10 3D API has to do with the registration point of a DisplayObject. The crux of the issue is that when you create an object it will be placed at the 0,0,0 point. This makes the anchor point of the object in ...

Calculating Δv to Maximize EEPROM Storage

After a round of clarity (read: beer), Noel thought up a good way of maximizing the EEPROM memory in the data logger. Unfortunately it didn't quite work, I'll demonstrate below. To reiterate, the RPMs I was recording off of the Hall Sensor would increase to a rate of over 255 revolutions ...

Thinking out loud — Arduino as Webcam

Lately much of my work has been dealing with getting Flash to talk to the Arduino. There's no real functionality to do this on its own, so you have to rely on some other components to host the conversation. There's a whole host of methods you can use here: Socket Connection ...

December 29th 2011
Tags: Code, Processing 0 Comments

DLP-RFID1 for Processing

I recently had to set up a Processing application to monitor 15 RFID readers. The source was in C++ so I made a quick port to Processing. I'm adding it here in case it's of use to anyone using a DLP-RFID1 device. Is there a better way of doing it? ...
June 9th 2010
Tags: Code, ObjectiveC, Three20, Tutorial 0 Comments

Three20 TTTableViewController commitEditingStyle

This post is mostly for my future reference. I found the documentation of the TTTableViewController's commitEditingStyle to be lacking. Some of the comments on StackOverflow provide the right answer, but the code wasn't posted so I struggled for a bit. Below is an example of the version I managed to ...
September 11th 2009
Tags: Found 0 Comments

TGIMBOEJ

The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk (TGIMBOEJ) is a box. It's a box that arrives on your doorstep after you drop your name on a wiki page and wait a good deal of time. It's a box that has electronics junk inside and it works off the premise ...
August 9th 2009
Tags: Ideas 0 Comments

Power Monitor Packet

As Hugo helpfully commented in a previous post, here is the link to the Power Monitor Patent. The specific page I'm linking to is the Packet model. Lots of reading to do here, but its pretty interesting. One of the things I find most interesting about this patent is the citations ...
July 26th 2009
Tags: Ideas 0 Comments

Building a Scooter Bike for Kids

Ages ago I bookmarked a design posted on Make for a Scooter Bike, as I intended on building one when my daughter got old enough. On a recent trip to the surplus store I picked up a wheelset for $3 and figured what better time to start than now. I ...

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