Planet Rockalypse Rotating Header Image

Posts from ‘July, 2010’

Printer Video

Here is a video we created yesterday for a presentation. It shows the printing of the list node shown in the last post.
Linked List Node Print

Braille Labels

Recently, we’ve implemented a crucial feature to our program that will allow for better usability for blind students. Users can now create Braille labels to be embedded into their 3D objects. These labels can be placed anywhere within the image via our editor GUI. The previous implementation of hemispheres came in very handy during this [...]

Driving a servo with Plumbing

We have been tearing things apart in the Plumbing libraries over the past two weeks. Specifically, we’ve been separating out concerns — we keep asking “is this code architecture specific, or platform specific?” This is a hard question, as we’re try…

Interesting accelerometer data

On our Razor IMU there are three different MEM sensors: a 3-axis accelerometer, a 2-axis gyro, and a single axisRead the Rest…

dinosaurs and uavs

This past week, Radu and Drew worked through the details of setting up PWM-based servo control on the Arduino. This gives us robust control over servos from our occam-pi based programming environment without having to interrupt our execution every 20ms to update a servo. Here, the Science Dinosaur demonstrates how things work. Radu and Drew’s [...]

Omer and Adam talk about the ccc board

Omer and Adam spoke at OSHUG, the Open Source Hardware Group, in London this week. Check them out talking with DJ Walker-Morgan about the concurrency.cc board.

Adam Sampson and Omer Kilic talking with Dj Walker-Morgan after #oshug from Matt Lucht o…