Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

REAPER + Kinect?

Posted: September 7, 2011 in Technology

+ Here’s an idea…  How about connecting REAPER to Kinect via ReaScript. This might be a starting point…Shinect

Digi and Pachube Fun

Posted: September 7, 2011 in Technology

I have connected a Digi Connectport X4 and several sensors (Temp, humidity, light) to pachube. This gives me the ability to generate graphs and provide current and historical measurements to other applications in the cloud.  I used the iDigi DIA and implemented a pachube post presentation to get the data into the cloud.  It has been working [...]

Back to School

Posted: September 7, 2011 in Technology

I took a bit of a hiatus in my making, breaking and contemplating to focus on some career choices.  I haven’t really finished with that process, but it is high time to start learning some new skills and knocking the rust off of some old ones.  First order of business is to reorganize my personal creative space and decide [...]

I have a 50Kv electrostatic voltmeter lying about with nothing to do.  It looks like this: It has an awesome 4-5 inch long insulator on the back for the input connection.  Inside its basically a balance scale that reads the force of attraction between two plates and is mostly empty space inside to air gap [...]

Find the perfect Servo

Posted: September 7, 2010 in hardware, Projects, Technology

I am working on a animatronics type project and needed to find just the right type of servo.   After a bit of web stumbling I found ServoDatabase.com which helped me find just the right one!

Hack a day posted this link yesterday and I though this was great!  How about making a decent approximation for some function using limited operators. using only +,-,/,* and abs()? Might be useful on a micro with limited math capabilities… Some first expirements after the break….Here is what it did with a SIN(x) dataset x [...]

Legos Are Turing Complete!!

Posted: December 4, 2009 in Computing, Technology

This is great!  I wonder how much track it would take to run Windows 7….