January 24th 2009
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Toy Boat
Originally uploaded by Eightlines
By no means original, this was a really simple design I had to build. The hull is cut with a bandsaw at 15 degrees, 1/2" dowel with a 3/16" hole in the middle. Glued and bisected by another 3/16" hole out the stern. A balloon is ...
January 18th 2009
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Recently Saqoosha's port of ARToolkit from C to Flash has taken the Flash world by storm. The biggest hurdle for me was that the comments in the source were all in Japanese. That was until Mikko Haapoja published a getting started in FLARToolkit entry. Now we're witnessing an onslaught of ...
December 31st 2008
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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 ...
December 13th 2008
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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 ...
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 ...
November 25th 2008
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[Note: Anna's relayed too many stories lately of the extents to which other mothers go to fix their strollers. Its prompting me to write this post.]
Are you the owner of a Graco stroller? (possibly other brands) Has the wheel fallen off? Have you:
Thrown out the stroller and bought ...
GPS Case
Originally uploaded by Eightlines
Playing with code is fun, but when you do it all day for work it's nice to come home and build something tangible. I picked up some scrap Hard Maple from the baseball bat manufacturer that happens to make Barry Bonds' bat of choice (purportedly). Now ...
When I last left the data logger project off I was having quite a few issues with managing the size of the data in the allotted EEPROM space on board the Arduino. I built up an SDCard writer based on several specs I found in the messageboard and it worked ...
November 4th 2008
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I'm just going to put this out there, I feel its something that isn't talked about often and can be an influencing factor when making things. Building things yourself will almost certainly cost you more than if you buy the object in the store (if it exists already). On almost ...
November 2nd 2008
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So after posting the previous entry I went to sleep, only to find myself thinking about improving the visual aspect of the Conversation Cloud. I decided that adding physics would be the way to go, it would allow words to deflect off of each other, grow and gain mass, and ...