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June 15, 2011
… is littered with the wrecks and remains of many failed projects.” The varied attempts to start, maintain or promote a single identifier scheme for academics, whether applied locally or internationally, can arguably be described as being a mix of successes and abject failures. I do not wish to dwell on what a failure is […]
February 19, 2011
This was a bit of fun me and @davetaz cooked up on the first morning of the event – I have been doing work on getting the Kinect data (specifically the skeleton mapping data) out so that ordinary code can use it easily and Dave had been working on the drone control beforehand. There was […]
January 27, 2011
As a community, we are pretty terrible at self-promotion. In fact, many of those coding and scripting as an academic staff member struggle to identify themselves as developers in the first place. We are developers, whether we are writing code required for a funded project, adjusting webpage templates or even doing analysis of library usage […]
January 4, 2011
The fix can be easily made if you build from source (building for debian). The key line that needs to be altered is at line 1131 of trunk/opencv/modules/python/api [svn browse ink]: ... QueryHistValue_3D double CvHistogram hist int idx0 int idx1 int idx2 QueryHistValue_nD double CvHistogram hist ints idx # Matching MatchTemplate CvArr image CvArr templ […]
September 27, 2010
Quick disclaimer: I have not got my hands on one of these, so it may all be vapourware. However, the modest specs and clunky design makes me feel that it could well exist at a reasonable (for business hw) price. From http://www.4p-online.com/4p/dat500.html DAT500 is a robust ALL IN ONE palmtop pen based computer designed for […]
September 27, 2010
(reposted from my ex-tumblr account) Quick weekend project (would’ve likely hacked on this at Fizzpop Howduino… if I could’ve got there!) Scenario: You like photography and DIY electronics but you begrudge paying £15+ for a remote control for your camera. Or you are just curious as to how to hack one together. Step 1 – […]
September 27, 2010
(Reposted from my tumblr account) Conway’s Game of Life on an 8×8 LED Matrix (powered by Processing, Arduinos and the good old serial connection 🙂 Processing code: ================================ /* 1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation. 2. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours […]
September 27, 2010
(Reposted from my ex-tumblr account) The lightboard from the Forum of Infomatics at Edinburgh. Most natives, when asked, replied that the dots and gaps were the sponsor names rendered in ASCII or some varient. I have yet to crack this or see how to read in numbers from the board such that I get sensible […]
Random Hacks 
July 2, 2011
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