Fun with Arduino!

So a couple of days ago my Adafruit Experiment Kit for Arduino (ARDX) arrived, and today I spent some time playing with it. I went through the first couple of experiments but decided to go off the range a little with the second one. Instead of writing a whole bunch of code which goes through … Continue reading Fun with Arduino! →

No item should ever go un-processed

I have recently been fixing a support incident with a system of ours which processes data in the form of CSV files emailed to an exchange mailbox. Occasionally the producer of these CSVs doesn't form them correctly and the whole thing packs up; the item stays in the mailbox, and somebody has to go digging … Continue reading No item should ever go un-processed →

My CV as an Infographic

I recently got an invite to a service called visualize.me, it takes data from your linked-in profile and turns it into a neat infographic. I'd like to see what the recruitment folks think. The link to my profile is below: http://vizualize.me/0S62S_ZXAT#

GreenScreen for Kinect

Since Microsoft released the official Kinect SDK for Windows I have been doing a tiny bit of mucking around with it. I am working on a poor-man's "Green Screen" app which uses the Kinect's skeleton tracking to mask out the background. I got the first stage of it working today. I'll post more videos as the … Continue reading GreenScreen for Kinect →

To share or not to share…

So, I'm gradually working towards making a simple fighting game, using my Kinect as the input sensor. I think initially it'll be one person punching a punching bag, then two people competing, and then probably some sort of computer controlled AI which looks at your pose, and chooses the right pose/move accordingly (although since I … Continue reading To share or not to share… →

All those things I’ve been talking about…

Well, I finally got a really rough prototype going of some C# code making my sandbox engine create a renderer and attach it to a .NET window. Here's a screenie...

Lambda expressions in C# – How useful are they really?

I'm currently working on a project where we are using a technology called DDS (Data Distribution Service). DDS is a Publish/Subscribe technology for Inter-Process Communication. It is fast, and very flexible in terms of the Quality-of-Service that you want. Now, I have developed a framework around it so that various parts of our application need … Continue reading Lambda expressions in C# – How useful are they really? →