Gentlemen, start your engines! It’s a race between Germany and Hong Kong! The flight electronics for the Bormatec have now been ordered from HK-based stockists, Hobbyking. http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/index.rc 2x 4000 mAh, 14.8 volt, 4S1P (4 series, 1 parallel) Lithium-Polymer cells, for main power. An NTM Prop Drive Series 42-38 brushless motor,… Continue reading
Right! After careful consideration, I’ve decided to invest in a Bormatec Vamp as a flying UAV-Testbed. It’s got a 1.8m wingspan, and an all-up maximum weight of 2.5kg; plenty of room for around a kilogram of payload. After doing a little math, it’d cost me about 3x as much as… Continue reading
Above are a few pictures of things as they stand at present. This project, as previously stated, is largely an experiment to improve skills, and produce something tangible. The aim is to produce an autonomous aerial vehicle; capable of flying to a destination co-ordinate, performing a task, and returning to… Continue reading
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Spec Ops: The Line In most games,ย the designers have done all they can to try to disguise the rails. Rails in this case being a metaphor for linear storytelling. Linear storytelling is not inherently bad, but often seems that way when โyouโ, or… Continue reading
So, I’ve split my blog into two blogs. All things techy and random project related will remain here, as will all raspberry pi materials. Photos can now be found here:ย http://www.flickr.com/photos/daftideas/ Actually nothing has changed at all. Updates will continue to be once every azure celestial body.
My friend and I want to build an unmanned aerial vehicle. Unlike the predator drones, it will not be armed with missiles. This is an educational project for us; I’ve never done any proper “bare metal” coding before, or even very much hardware based stuff. Matt, however, is great at… Continue reading
Ten sample through each pixel: With more samples, the image eventually converges to this: There are still some bugs to work out: the above image had to be auto-leveled to correct the brightness. It starts out way to dark, for some reason.
When I started this blog, it was intended to be a way to do some write ups of what I’m doing, and to easily share some of the cool stuff with my friends. I don’t like just sending images and builds over skype file transfer, and I like a record…. Continue reading
Shamus Young was messing around with Perlin Noise, which turned out to be normal noise. I dug around in an old VM to find this image: The massive sphere in the background is procedurally textured with the Perlin Noise function, that is described in this paper:ย http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/paper445.pdf It’s not the best… Continue reading