A very stable aircraft is important in UAV design and construction. Originally we had proposed purchasing and building the veryRead the Rest…
Posts from ‘June, 2010’
Welcome
Welcome to the Flying Gator UAV weblog. We will be periodically updating this blog with with information concerning our summerRead the Rest…
Cranky Skeinforge, Internal Faces, and a Much Happier Printer…
As we were joyously drawing, 3D-ifying, and printing various shapes, we noticed that during many of the prints, the printer head would partake in a good amount of jittering and seemingly random movements. The patterns it was creating to fill the objects didn’t make sense and we were curious as to why skeingforge, the program [...]
Stickzilla, or: Triangle Meshes Hate Us
After we used Sprinklation to modify pictures into printer-friendly images, our next step was to give these Sprinkles a third dimension. For that we needed Blender, a vastly complex (but free!) 3D modeling program that lets you script in Python. One of the reasons we chose Python for this project in the first place was [...]
The Advent of… the Sprinkle
Sara and I have returned for the summer session of Serious Programming Awesomeness, and we’re diving right into the world of 2d-to-3d transformations. We’ve used Python and Blender together to take greyscale images and turn them into 3d constructs- this is going a long way toward bridging the gap between diagrams and tangible Cupcake-printed output. [...]
Fun With COM Objects and Python
Today I achieved what some might consider to be a rather simple milestone, but it is quite exciting for me none the less. I was able to access a COM object using python. More specifically, I was able to create an object for my windows screen reader, Window-Eyes, and make it speak something using the [...]