Author: aeiche
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I wrote a Nintendo Game
About six months ago, I wrapped up my formal schooling and graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Software Engineering. My final course was a Senior Project where I got to dictate the work that I wanted to do. Because it’s been something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, I proposed to write…
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Holiday Lights Display
Like you no doubt, I’ve come across animated holiday light displays on YouTube, and occasionally around my neighborhood, and looked on with some envy. Not this year! This year I pursued a simple, but ultimately functional computer-controlled holiday light display of my own.
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3D Printed Laminar Fountains
I have come across laminar flow fountains a few times in my life. The earliest I can remember is the jumping fountains at Epcot when I was a kid. More recently I wanted to see if I could replicate the experience at home. I’ve had a couple of ideas for these kinds of fountains, and…
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Emulator in a GamePak™
Way back in October or something, a coworker of mine asked if I had a glue gun he could borrow. He was in town from the UK for a couple of months, and was interested in building a PiCart – a video game emulator packaged in an NES game cart. Rather than give him a glue…
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Bash Command Prompt Flair on a Mac
A couple of months ago I was going through Apple’s Introduction to Swift, wherein they mentioned that Swift’s support of unicode allowed that you could use emoji as variable names. They were quick to point out that it was a bad practice, and you shouldn’t do it, but it was kind of fun. More recently,…
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Weekend Project – Ghost Message!
Many years ago, I thought it’d be a fun idea to have an RGB panel that would display game sprites on demand, connected to the internet, so people could display a sprite on demand. Just a sort of fun thing to have on my desk. One evening last week, I decided that I wanted to…
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How I added a custom commentary track to a movie
A couple of years back, one of my favorite podcaster/writer/tour-de-forces, Andy Ihnatko released a commentary track for the 1954 holiday classic White Christmas. It’s a hilarious and fascinating dissection of the film and since I heard it, I’ve wanted to figure out a way I could add the commentary support to my copy of the film…
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Programming AVRs using a USBasp on a Mac
I loaned out my trusty USBTinyISP to a friend a while back and it was easier to go find an alternative than to coordinate schedules. So I bought a USBasp – another type of open source programmer for AVRs. I ran into an number of problems getting it to work because there is so much…
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A way to fix Twitter’s Trolling Problem
Leslie Jones, one of the stars of the 2016’s Ghostbusters quit twitter last week. She’d been harassed off the platform by trolls with hateful comments. This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened. So I’ve been thinking about how to fix it
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Early Morning Project: RasPi Zero Roomba
I can’t sleep. Instead of sleeping, I’m hacking robots. Last year during my winter holiday I wired up a Raspberry Pi to my Roomba, to drive it around and such. More recently I got a Raspberry Pi Zero and wanted to do the same thing.