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SpaceNavigator controlled Lego Mindstorms NXT

September 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Default

It’s my second year of coaching a First Lego League team. The experience has been fantastic, I’m teaching 4th and 5th grade children about robots and computers, and teaching them to build and program their own robots. This year the kids are going to be learning how to use the new Lego Mindstorms NXT robot; [...]

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Tiilt!

December 11th, 2006 · 11 Comments · Default

I don’t own a Wii. But as of today I do own a Wii Remote (and a nunchuk). And I’ve had a lot of fun using the Wiimote.framework to hack up this app:

Tiilt.mp4

This screencast shows a simple Quartz Composer composition being manipulated by the Wii remote. If there is interest I’ll put the source online.

Source [...]

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Child’s Play Day

December 6th, 2006 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Mike Zornek, friend, fellow #macsb-er and Mac entrepreneur is organising Child’s Play Day. Ironcoder is hosting a page with information on the event: http://ironcoder.org/blog/childs-play-day/

(Thanks to Mere Mortal Software for the badge icon)

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Lineform 1.1

June 19th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

I wrote PettySVG almost a year ago as a minimal SVG renderer framework for Mac OS X. As such it works relatively well, although bugs still remain and the set of SVG functionality supported is rather low (PettySVG might be better suited as a SVG Tiny or SVG Basic renderer).

However today I received an e-mail [...]

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Quickies

June 15th, 2006 · No Comments · Default

Daniel Jalkut of Red-Sweater scores a hat-trick with three very interesting blog posts. Of special interest to me, is his posting about the redesign of his blog using NodeBox. I actually introduced Daniel to NodeBox, little did I know he’d do so much with it. Very cool.

The Kip is a strange tool for archiving, indexing [...]

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Internet Clippings to XBEL

June 3rd, 2006 · No Comments · Default

I have thousands of Mac OS X url clippings files on my mac. These little files are reported by the finder as “Web Internet Location” files. They’re sometimes known as “weblocs” (due to their file extension) and look like this:

The reason I have so many of these things is that I switch browsers relatively [...]

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Shaping future Ironcoders

May 23rd, 2006 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Anyone interested in shaping future Ironcoder competitions please visit and contribute to this thread on Ironcoder.org

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Stone Design ships Videator

May 23rd, 2006 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Andrew Stone released Videator today. I haven’t really played with it much, but it is like Imaginator but for video. It is a lot like my Core Video Funhouse and Toxic Media projects. Of course my projects were just that - projects, Andrew has made a fully fledged product. I’m actually surprised it took so [...]

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Bash weirdness on Mac OS X Intel boxes

May 15th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized

Just a quickie (to prevent my blog from becoming a dinosaur and eventually fossil fuel…)

If you’re running bash on an Intel Mac you might see some interesting behavior if you inspect the shell’s variables:

[jwight@ratatosk] jwight$ set | grep TYPE HOSTTYPE=powerpc MACHTYPE=powerpc-apple-darwin8.0 OSTYPE=darwin8.0

PowerPC? Darwin 8.0? On my Quad G5 I get identical results. Checking the bash binary with the [...]

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Iron Coder - Fin!

March 5th, 2006 · No Comments · Uncategorized

The zeroth Iron Coder contest is now over. We had 10 (possibly 11) entries. So far all of them that we’ve seen like a lot of fun.

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