2026-03-01T15:50:08.988454Z 2026-03-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Graphics Engine Part 3 - Contracts, Textures and Depth

28 2026-01-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Graphics Engine Part 2 - breaking it down

57 2025-10-31T00:00:00.000000Z

A Vulkan Rust 3D Engine - Part 1

131 2025-07-28T00:00:00.000000Z

The Amiga is forty years old. I've begun to modernise it.

64 2025-06-30T00:00:00.000000Z

I entered NOVA this year. Here is how I made a demo

48 2025-05-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Something about that OpenAI make your own Studio Ghibli character made me think.

134 2025-04-04T00:00:00.000000Z

I'm going to attempt to make a 3D graphics engine in 24 days

130 2025-03-20T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been at the Dairsie repair cafe for two years now.

97 2024-11-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Taking a geeky badge and converting it into something useful.

135 2024-10-20T00:00:00.000000Z

Or how I got birdnet to run in a VM with Bhyve

74 2024-06-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Spotting Seals in Sonar with A.I.

124 2024-03-12T00:00:00.000000Z

Building an HDMI PMOD for FPGA Dev boards

117 2024-01-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Playing around with a fun A.I - Birdnet

109 2023-11-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Using new tech with old tech.

4 2023-10-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Sieving compost has never been easier

3 2023-09-19T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been looking at speeding up some of my python programs.

62 2023-07-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Working on an arduino system that listens for marine mammals

10 2023-05-14T00:00:00.000000Z

I've managed to (almost) finish a PhD in A.I. and microscopy.

61 2022-12-06T00:00:00.000000Z

For our sibling santa this year, I made an AI message

95 2022-09-13T00:00:00.000000Z

My approach to the passing of Elizabeth II

25 2022-08-17T00:00:00.000000Z

I've co-edited and designed a book about a collection of calculators

106 2022-06-08T00:00:00.000000Z

I wrote a demo for the Field-FX Demo Party

120 2022-05-18T00:00:00.000000Z

We entered the Wild Demo this year with our unique, homebrew FPGA board

35 2022-04-22T00:00:00.000000Z

My first post on how to program the ZX Spectrum 48K

22 2021-11-30T00:00:00.000000Z

A blog post about writing

24 2021-10-30T00:00:00.000000Z

I've started to make a computer game completely from scratch. Should be fun!

44 2021-09-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Modernising a proper classic computer for funtimes today

43 2021-08-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Building an FPGA Board for pretty VGA graphics

42 2021-07-30T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been working hard on my PhD and here is the first result

133 2021-06-30T00:00:00.000000Z

I bought an old Famicom in Japan with a curious golf cartridge. So lets play golf on the Old Course

141 2021-05-28T00:00:00.000000Z

I never had a ZX Spectrum back in the day, so I bought one and decided to modernise it.

26 2021-04-26T00:00:00.000000Z

A modern-ish plague doctor mask using neopixel rings, bluetooth and an android application

103 2021-03-28T00:00:00.000000Z

Polybius is a gaming urban legend, serving as inspiration for my own arcade cabinet build.

113 2021-02-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Images are still a pain to create, organise and get them to where they need to go.

27 2021-01-18T00:00:00.000000Z

I've always wanted to make a comedy Queen's speech. Now we have the technology.

89 2020-12-12T00:00:00.000000Z

Mixing Rust, Python and Poisson Sampling for improving A.I.

114 2020-11-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Finally finished a long dormant video project. A 360 video tour of the Antarctic Penninsula.

6 2020-10-21T00:00:00.000000Z

I spent three months helping to build the software for a battery management system

86 2020-09-17T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been paying a lot of attention to VPNs, trackers and DNS. Here are some tips for wireguard, PiHole and hosts.

71 2020-08-16T00:00:00.000000Z

During lockdown, I entered my first ever gamejam. Here is what I learned.

11 2020-07-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Finally got around to joining the Demoscene with my first production.

143 2020-06-09T00:00:00.000000Z

How I generate stats for our experimental A.I runs in microscopy science.

136 2020-05-15T00:00:00.000000Z

PyTorch tends not to warn you about mistakes in your graph, so I made a quick tool to see what is going on, under the bonnet.

72 2020-04-23T00:00:00.000000Z

I'd never heard of neofetch and powershell before but they've made things just that little bit nicer.

76 2020-03-29T00:00:00.000000Z

I use a lot of images, programs and scripts in my research. Some of this might be useful for others working in science.

100 2020-02-18T00:00:00.000000Z

I've finally got around to using up a load of TP-Link routers and webcams to make something useful.

145 2020-01-12T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been playing a lot of computer roleplay games, but what makes a good one?

77 2019-12-20T00:00:00.000000Z

I was fortunate to be selected to take part in the December Data Study Group at the Alan Turing Institute

140 2019-11-17T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been thinking a lot about Hackspaces recently

112 2019-10-21T00:00:00.000000Z

What is the first year of a science PhD like?

70 2019-09-10T00:00:00.000000Z

A computer nerd's guide to travelling Japan.

59 2019-07-31T00:00:00.000000Z

So I've been learning Rust and I've found a great use for it in real research.

105 2019-04-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Debugging neural networks with a little pdb and pytorch

34 2019-03-05T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been learning about BGA, surface mount soldering and hotplates

46 2018-12-12T00:00:00.000000Z

I've started working with PyTorch to find 3D parameters of objects in images

29 2018-12-07T00:00:00.000000Z

I just finished Planescape Torment. It seems very relevant, especially today.

37 2018-11-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Flickr has changed. So has the web. I've had some thoughts and I think things need to change.

94 2018-10-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Everyone loves the 80s! Everyone loves Cyberpunk! So lets hack on the Powerglove! It's so bad!

58 2018-10-02T00:00:00.000000Z

So I've submitted the thesis, had the viva, gotten the result and it's the end of a two year stint at trying bioinformatics. How did it go?

16 2018-09-10T00:00:00.000000Z

The first themed area at Electromagnetic Field Camp - The Cyberpunk Cybar

69 2018-07-04T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been working with my friend Will on some FPGA graphics demos. This one draws metaballs - a funky oldskool effect

30 2018-06-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Sequences appear a lot in biology, as you might expect. A and C and T and G, or ASP, GLY, VAL, PRO and many others. Looking for patterns in this data is half of the battle. Looking for patterns in the mountain of data is a herculian task. No wonder we are trying to teach machines to look for patterns.

19 2018-05-07T00:00:00.000000Z

I decided to improve on my old hydroponics setup, with some proper pumps, pipework and the EMF tilda badge.

49 2018-04-20T00:00:00.000000Z

I figured I'd see what all these wetlab biologists are getting up to and give it a go myself.

82 2018-04-05T00:00:00.000000Z

For some reason, HacDC has a scanning electron microscope, and it might just work

98 2018-03-16T00:00:00.000000Z

How can we go from a list of amino acids to a full 3D structure, using just a neural network?

79 2018-02-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Electron microscopy data is getting pretty big in the bioinformatics world at the moment. As a side project, I've been porting some EM software to ChimeraX.

54 2018-02-10T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been spending most of my time these days learning AI and biology. Here's the first part of what I've been up to.

51 2018-02-01T00:00:00.000000Z

The second part of building a 3D scanning dome. This time, we deal with skins and cameras

9 2018-01-18T00:00:00.000000Z

I've started writing an Android application. It's almost ready for release on the Google Store. This is the first time I've properly ventured into the app-economy. It's been an interesting few months thus far. I have a few tips for these starting out.

8 2018-01-08T00:00:00.000000Z

I'm keen to scan quite a few objects and I figured building a proper scanning rig would be a good start.

2 2017-12-20T00:00:00.000000Z

I bought a miniSpartan3 a long time ago and now it's tricky to get them to work but I've found a way.

56 2017-02-28T00:00:00.000000Z

How do you improve an existing project for a long term study of animal behaviour

39 2017-01-28T00:00:00.000000Z

So in addition to getting married, helping plan a move to the USA and learning all about bioinformatics, I've been working a lot with word2vec, tensorflow and various word vector counts to figure out similarities between verbs. It's a fun little project that sits right at the heart of natural language processing.

52 2016-11-29T00:00:00.000000Z

So I'm getting married. Since we are both nerds, my fiancee and I wanted some sort of nerdy aspect to our wedding and we figured that the invite itself was the best thing to work on.

111 2016-11-01T00:00:00.000000Z

It's no secret that I'm not a fan of social media generally. It has potential to be amazing but appears to be going down a route that I'm not very comfortable with. One way that I deal with this is to write robots for Twitter in order to get around the problems of noise, irrelevance and hate speech. I've been trying to find a few ways around this and I've entered into the world of SVMs and Neural Nets.

87 2016-10-05T00:00:00.000000Z

My WebGL engine, PXL.js hit v0.1.0 and it's not too shabby but I've learned other things besides programming.

80 2016-08-17T00:00:00.000000Z

EMFCamp happened this year and I helped out with the First Aid Team. Here is how it went down.

18 2016-07-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Two years ago, I built an ePRF system for EMFCamp. This year, we've improved it significantly.

12 2016-06-22T00:00:00.000000Z

At QMUL, we are a CMake shop. I personally love cmake, and how easy it is to integrate into other things like test frameworks, Jenkins and the like. Go makes a really good attempt to force you into proper management of your projects but it's a bit of a pain to force into your workflow sometimes. Fortunately, we've managed to get cmake to play nicely with golang's various commands.

38 2016-06-09T00:00:00.000000Z

I try to make it every year to BSides. It's a great litle conference, which is saying a lot for someone who isn't really a conference fan. I'm not particularly involved in the Security Industry but it's something I'm interested in, both as a hobby and professionally, as all software engineers should be really.

31 2016-05-16T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been working on a project here at QMUL for a while now, utilising Fortran90, CUDA and a library called OP2. It's been quite a ride really, with lots of things to learn. I've finally had a bit of a breakthrough getting things working, so it seems like a good time to share some thoughts.

137 2016-03-01T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been meaning to play around with Go for a while. A project came across my desk that was just perfect for getting to grips with this modern language

60 2016-02-02T00:00:00.000000Z

I recently visited Brussels for the FOSDEM Conference. It's perhaps something that has been long overdue really. I've been using opensource software for a long time, and I'd heard of the conference a few years ago, but finally I've made it to Belgium! I figure I'll split this post into two part probably. I'll save the reports of talks till the end.

142 2015-12-01T00:00:00.000000Z

A while ago, my partner expressed an interest in theremins. I figured it would make a nice present for her, but simply buying one off the shelf doesn't quite have the level of love I was going for.

7 2015-10-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Watches in general fall into one of two categories - a tool to tell the time, or a fashion statement. Increasingly, I believe the latter category is larger than the first. With the advent of the iWatch, Pebble and the like, fashion and making a statement has moved into technology. It's not quite a new thing but nevertheless, it's something I'm not too fond of. My solution? Make your own smartwatch.

41 2015-08-25T00:00:00.000000Z

I wrote quite a bit about the Trans-siberian trip I recently went on. One thing I only briefly mentioned was the video I took of the trip.

14 2015-08-16T00:00:00.000000Z

I've never been to Defcon or The CCC Conference or Blackhat, so I felt it was finally time to take the plunge.

68 2015-07-06T00:00:00.000000Z

One of the first jobs I've worked on for Queen Mary University is a small program to compared two ordered lists. Pretty simple right? Well, not when you have lists 200 thousand plus elements wrong and several hundred thousand of theses lists! Now we have a lot of computing power for this but we have to apply a bit of brain power to harness all that metal.

104 2014-12-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Myself and Tom Wyatt were approached by the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures this year to help with one of the demos for the lectures; a giant game of Tetris to be played on the side of the Shell Building, Opposite the London Eye. Of course, such opportunities don't often arise, so we jumped at the chance! A fun, interesting project to inspire children to hack more with their gadgets and possibly annoy their parents in the process! Fantastic!

96 2014-12-21T00:00:00.000000Z

UTOPIA is a collection of two programs and set of plugins written in Python. Cinema is a sequence alignment tool and Ambrosia is a 3D visualiation program. The two are designed to work together; one can visualise a particular section of a protein and analyze the 3D structure of certain elements. Both programs can load python plugins to import different sequences and alignments, allowing researchers to work with different online databases (of which there are many I've found).

15 2014-12-12T00:00:00.000000Z

I was asked to help out with Target's latest marketing campaign; a set of mobile games running through WebGL, called Bullseye's Playground

45 2014-11-25T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been playing around with RFID Rings for a while now. Using a ring to control access to the hackspace door, as an Oyster card (yeah, I said it - I'm sure TFL don't really care) and generally as a way to interact with things is quite fun and cool. I've made some progress from the last version and significantly improved on it.

128 2014-11-03T00:00:00.000000Z

More like Seven Languages in Seven Months! :D I started out on this course with the best of intentions but after about 3 weeks, things began to slow down. Nevertheless, I've been determined to finish it, or at least put as much effort in as I could.

99 2014-09-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Hellicar and Lewis and I were asked by Lexus to take EchoForms to their launch event in Paris.

92 2014-09-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Anyone who volunteers for St John Ambulance or similar, or works with the ambulnance service will know that patient report forms are a sort of necessary pain-in-the-backside. Paper forms generally require a flat surface, pen and dry conditions. Efforts to replace such forms with iPads and similar haven't caught on due to battery life, capacitative sensing and cost. Enter the Nook.

125 2014-09-06T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been interested in large pixel displays for a while now. As part of EMFCamp2014, I decided to submit a proposal to the shiny projects part of the camp. I wanted to create a 30 x 30 RGB LED screen after working with another designer chap and link it to the Internet, letting the festival go-ers update it with images over the weekend.

126 2014-07-28T00:00:00.000000Z

It's not often I do advertising work. It all depends on who I'm working with and what the challenge is. In this case, I was approached by Hellicar and Lewis to build a WebGL based Kaleidoscope in about 4 days. No small order really, but I decided to step up and give it a bash.

47 2014-05-28T00:00:00.000000Z

I was approached by The Whipple Museum at the University of Cambridge to help build a 3D representation of the Equatorie as part of the digitisation of the original manuscript. I was teamed up with a lovely historian Seb Falk, who you may have seen running the London Marathon as the London Gherkin. Together, we got cracking.

32 2014-04-21T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been quite busy, working on a few professional and personal projects, But I took some time out to do something I've never done, and have wanted to do for a while - visit a demo-party! The demo scene is something I've long be interested in and have had little chance to see for myself.

123 2014-02-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Working with the University of Manchester, I built a 3D engine that combines the oculus rift, the asus xtion and the MD5 Model format attempting to treat sufferers of Phantom Limb Pain This is version 3 of the project and is the best yet, thanks largely to the Oculus Rift.

129 2014-02-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Skeletal Animation is annoyingly hard! To be fair though, its the real crux of this whole gig. Getting the skinning working right, the bones all moving properly and the whole thing being easy to use is 90% of this project. So i’ve been spending a fair bit of time with the MD5 model format.

116 2014-01-28T00:00:00.000000Z

One of the things you don’t find a lot of, is how people organise their graphics engines or similar. I’ve begun reading up on the Doom3 engine but it’s quite extreme, or rather, quite a lot to take in at once. Im concerned with how things like three.js, Cinder, or OpenFrameworks deals with the problem of the graphics Pipeline.

101 2014-01-12T00:00:00.000000Z

So Ive been working on the Seburo backend and I’ve hit that old chestnut again - textures and images. Classically, I’ve had issues with this because its something that just needs to be done, and I get frustrated with how tedious it can be.

147 2013-11-30T00:00:00.000000Z

I have a chip on my shoulder about wearable technology. There is a lot of hype out there and the good stuff is rare. Its a shame because I'm really keen on personal uses of technology and getting closer to it. I think there are some gimmicks out there and things that people are playing with, but they just seem to be not really wearable or not really tech. Enter the RFID Ring.

65 2013-11-25T00:00:00.000000Z

So the time has begun to start on Phantom Limb Part 3. For these who have not seen the previous versions of this project, the idea is to immerse a person, who suffers from phantom limb pain, inside a Virtual Reality simulation in order to learn more about the condition and hopefully, provide some comfort for the person in question.

20 2013-10-24T00:00:00.000000Z

I started section9 a while ago now. There were are few periods where the business was on hold, where I took a full-time or part time job, but around October 2012, I made the jump to being a limited company and going all the way. As Vinnie Jones once said - "Its been emotional".

107 2013-09-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Whilst working on the Doorbell I had another AVR project on the go; a pendant for a necklace as an anniversery present. I had the idea after seeing a post on hackaday that described a simple project to turn an LED matrix into a fun, little necklace. I decided I'd give it a go.

110 2013-09-12T00:00:00.000000Z

This doorbell is one of these projects that has been hanging around for ages, waiting to be finalised. It's the old cliche right? The girlfriend mentions a DIY style problem and you decide to step in. Over a year later, the job is actually done.

122 2013-08-06T00:00:00.000000Z

The University of Manchester came to me, asking if I could render a series of hands that were as realistic as possible. The plan is to fool a human into thinking the resulting images are real. With that in place, certain parameters can be tweeked in order to facilitate an experiment into mirror neurons.

115 2013-07-12T00:00:00.000000Z

Recently, I was approached to work on the new Burberry Kisses campaign with many other people, in order to help Google and Grow Interactive get their interactve maps in order.This involved working in WebGL, javascript and a little bit of Unity.

93 2013-04-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Have you ever been in a museum and wondered about what you might be missing? Things you might not have seen but want to see? Well, this is a step towards that. A system that tries to figure out other objects you might be interested in.

73 2013-03-04T00:00:00.000000Z

I'm a bit of a photography nerd, it has to be said. when I was introduced toOpenMoco I knew I was in for some fun times! When I saw the Chronos by Chris Field, I immediately jumped at the chance to build it. I've enjoyed doing time-lapse stuff for a while and I figured parallax was the next thing to try.

13 2013-02-18T00:00:00.000000Z

The Coins and Medals Department at the British Museum have a problem. They need to keep records of their collection. This involves scanning each and every coin, cropping the images, rotating them, stitching the two sides together and processing the filename. You can quickly imagine how labour intensive and tedious this job can be.

33 2012-12-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Im quite excited to see this display. At the back of the Science Museum, in the Antenna area, there is a new exhibition called Painless that deals with the new ways researchers are tackling pain.

75 2012-11-19T00:00:00.000000Z

A WebGL Interactive movie. The story revolves around our chap, Masato. He is a fisherman who is doomed, basically. The story is told in 4 chapters inside a cube. As the cube is spun we see the real world and the netherworld, lighting strikes, fish jump and our fisherman fishes. The story is a classic tale of one man's life going wrong.

23 2012-09-04T00:00:00.000000Z 0 2012-08-17T00:00:00.000000Z 88 2012-08-10T00:00:00.000000Z

As some people might know, I like to take part in things like Animation12. Its a good thing to do for children and it helps make for an interesting day out. This year I wasn't attending but I was asked to create a gadget, a special prop

40 2012-08-01T00:00:00.000000Z

After watching the Mill Touch video and after Building my own touchtable, I've wanted to build a large touch wall of my own. Now that EMFCamp is not far away, we have a great oppotunity to build and test something in a field with a captive audience.

55 2012-07-02T00:00:00.000000Z

User Interfaces are the bane of most programmer's lives. They really are. UI people don't often understand the true horror faced by a programmer when they are asked to write good UX code.

127 2012-06-15T00:00:00.000000Z

I've spent the last couple of weeks working on some code for The University of Leeds. Rather than actual research, this time has been spent on learning and adapting my code to be more compliant with OpenGL. I've done away with OpenFrameworks.

36 2012-05-08T00:00:00.000000Z

So what have I been up to these last few months? I've not had a lot of chance to mess around in the graphics domain, largely because I've been working on a large project for The University of Leeds. I've been interested in computer vision for a while and this seemed like a good chance to get to grips with it. Im working on the reconstruction of meshes from multiple camera viewpoints. This leads me into the realms of stereo vision.

66 2012-04-27T00:00:00.000000Z

It's not often I post about security stuff but I do like to know how the otherside lives. In my mind, I've always wanted to be an 'uber l33t haxor' but I just about rate script kiddie level. I'm not one for sniffing out exploits but one thing I do like is the intelligent vandalism side. Think Banksy, but in a more internet, technological sense.

138 2012-04-04T00:00:00.000000Z

My sister has been a big fan of retro gaming for some time and for her birthday I decided to make a USB convertor for the sega megadrive pad in order to play [MAME](http://mamedev.org) the way it's meant to be played.

83 2012-03-21T00:00:00.000000Z

The festival itself had its fair share of rockstars - the lineup consisting of almost everyone who is anyone in my particular field. We'd decided to take some of the students along with us as they were perhaps more into it than I was. Ultimately, it was aimed at them. Most of the talks were rehashings of things I'd see before.

132 2012-03-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Unbelievable! It's been almost a month since my last blog post which is, quite frankly, terrible. What have I been doing?

102 2012-02-03T00:00:00.000000Z 67 2012-01-13T00:00:00.000000Z

As is my way, I decided to embark on some intelligent vandalism, only this time, in the digital realm. We have several machines in our lab at Central St Martins and access to these is completely open. There are no student passwords and as such, students here have become lazy and left all their data on the desktop or trash. I decided to write a script to pull off all the data from these machines, find the images and mash them all together in a mosaic.

53 2011-12-28T00:00:00.000000Z

I must have spent an age getting this to work! Several forums and blog posts later I *think* I've managed to sort this. My laptop had been suffering from slow-downs with Lion installed and the wifi had begun to break. I figured it was high-time to re-install the lot.

119 2011-12-05T00:00:00.000000Z 108 2011-11-09T00:00:00.000000Z 144 2011-11-02T00:00:00.000000Z

So I've been playing around with MongoDB for a little while now. Im certainly no expert but I get the feeling its pretty darn handy for smaller apps and webservers doing simple things or many, many small things.

63 2011-10-26T00:00:00.000000Z

At one of my jobs, I've been thrown into the deep end when it comes to sysadmin. I've always done this a little but largely on a Linux based platform. As I'm involved with an Arts University, most of the machines here are Apple based. It's a little bit different in certain cases and there are some fun things already installed. The first is the *screen sharing* app.

1 2011-10-05T00:00:00.000000Z

In addition to my own business, I work part-time over at the University of the Arts helping out students and making cool things. The problem with such large places are their draconian I.T rules.

118 2011-09-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Recently, I've been working with a good client on a project that requires network communication between two sites and provision for a history feature.

121 2011-09-16T00:00:00.000000Z

So I've decided to play with Nginx on my server, leaving Apache behind. I must admit, I've had a lot of fun with it. It appears to be a good front end for funneling web requests to other services.

78 2011-08-14T00:00:00.000000Z

I've been looking at WebGL and I've been quite excited. The chance to merge design, the web and my favorite graphics library is not something I'd pass up. It's not all roses though because WebGL doesn't have uniform support across browsers. That said, it seems to be gaining ground.

21 2011-07-03T00:00:00.000000Z 84 2011-06-15T00:00:00.000000Z

After seeing the video for 'Only' by NIN, I decided I really wanted to make that work in real-time. The very first version used an infrared camera and OpenCV within OpenFrameworks and was quite a laugh really. I learnt a lot while building it. When the Kinect came out, I figured a rewrite was needed and since I wanted to learn more hardcore C++, I decided to go with Cinder.

5 2011-06-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Two posts combined! I've been busy trying to figure out a good way of doing headtracking on the cheap. Vuzix have not been too helpful when it comes to their VR920 headset. I've managed to get some working results with the Windows drivers but there is an issue when it comes to OSX and Linux. It was decided we should build our own Gyro unit. Not knowing anything about such things, I went straight in.

146 2011-05-24T00:00:00.000000Z

It's arrived! Finally, out of NDA we have the Hong Kong Deutsche Bank Installation. This was led by the rather talented Field.io who decided to pass around some of the work to local creative, programming types such as MSAVisuals.

50 2011-01-23T00:00:00.000000Z

No, don't misread that (although a colleague of mine is working on something more 18 rated). This small bot is the beginning of (hopefully) even tastier meats. Its a hacked slow cooker that can hold a temperature reliably for a long period of time.

91 2010-12-21T00:00:00.000000Z

I was asked to come up with some shadows in Openframeworks on a tight timescale.... I kinda failed on that one, having gone down the wrong route of shadow maps (I'd previously used VSM for my first NIN project). Looking it over, it seems that shadow volumes, or some hybrid approach with both is probably best. I've spent far too long on this but so far, I've managed to get a reasonable approximation of depth pass shadow volumes going.

85 2010-10-15T00:00:00.000000Z

The tweet-o-meter is a set of meters that records the rate of tweets around the world.

81 2010-10-06T00:00:00.000000Z

A test of a simple structured light setup. The idea was to use a PS3 Eyetoy and the excellent code written by Kyle MacDonald

90 2010-09-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Or rather, how much hammering can your server actually take? That is probably closer to the mark! I made the mistake of putting wikileaks in the URL. After wikileaks got hold of it, my server was absolutely hammered and as I hadn't managed to get it setup properly, it died rather quickly. It still seems up now though *touch wood*, after the initial rush has worn off.

17 2010-09-12T00:00:00.000000Z

Although we didn't get this quite finished (I made the mistake of adding multiple touches too late in the game) we did get it sorted by the next hackspace tuesday meeting. Nevertheless, I soldiered on and it finally works.....ish

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