News
6-11-2005
10-20-2004
8-10-2004
12-31-2003
Last February a friend and I went hiking/camping/field daying at Hoosier National Park. That's the page I never linked up -- I just added the QSL cards.
8-22-2002
Projects of a grand nature
Python Links
Remote Control
Tutorial / Educational
My Games (from long ago and far away)
Win32
Downloads!
Unix - FreeBSD
Images
Games
Other
Links
Utility
Friends
Electronics
Other
9-5-2006
Added Drawing deal
Server has been down for a while. Moved, disk died, re-installed with FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE. Everything is happy now. I think.
System update: Upgraded (re-installed) on a new disk to FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE
Two years ago I started a projected I dubbed 'Moving Abomination.' The idea was to make a go-kart of sorts with a spud-gun attached. The first year (summer) the main frame was built. The second year (summer) it was decided that the MA needed leaf springs. This summer with the help of friends I've actually got some work done. See the Moving Abomination page for more details.
Better late than never (for my yearly update). Right now I'm just working on different projects, learning about different things, playing boardgames, and enjoying life. If I ever produced an ounce of content for pound of learning I'd like to think I'd have a decent webpage. Well maybe not.
Since my last update I've been involved Comedy Central's BattleBot show. It's rather interesting that I acutally went out to San Fransisco to compete as I don't really like the TV show, but Doug said that he just needed some EE's to go over some wiring which ought to take a short amount of time and not be too much of a commitment. After 10s of hours of work on the robot later which consisted of writing some embedded code, making a steering feedback circuit, sleeping in the lab at school twice in near allnighters I found myself driving the robot straight into a well at Battle Bots on Treasure Island. As much as I dislike the mediaziation/commericalization that happens to the program, the contestants were really great people and it overall was a good experience. You can find out more about our robot Paydar at the clubs webpage
So as you might guess my driving the robot into the wall pretty ended our rise to the top in the first round. Tragic because our robot design was of the nature of the winning robots and if the other robot hadn't moved I would have hit it and most likely killed it. Our point of failure was that our wedge (we were able to bolt on different weapons to our robot, we chose the wedge for this fight) got bent up underneath our robot and lifted the steering wheel of the ground. On the bright side we knocked a spike off, but from then on Paydar just thrashed back and forth, to and fro doing damage to the arena (bending spikes over) until a spike went through the wedge and stuck us to the wall permenently.
Moving Abomination - Go-Kart + Spud Gun
Battle Bots - I was apart of the original battlebot team at IUPUI. I currently serve as an advisor to the EEs.
Python, what a great thing. My favorite language for getting things done
Python.org - The home
Pygame - For graphics/games/etc
PyOpenGL - For 3d graphics
PyroRobotics - Robotics and Python?!
RC Warship links
RC Warship efforts
SVGA from inside protected mode
3D Engine and other pointers
Code examples
Commando Bob
In and Above the Trenches
Jump Ring
Skeleton program
Timer executor
The above includes some of my earlier buggy & incomplete games (the ones from long ago and far away) but will
also include some of my later apps and hopefully some games when I get the time
to revive the old projects.
Perl notes
RoboRally miniatures - My RoboRally miniatures a friend and I painted.
Diplomacy - Game of the Century
Advanced Squad Leader - What board games are all about
Boulder Games - Games, for less.
Fun Again - Another good place to purchase games
Quotes from General Gorge Patton
Programming / Reference
Paul Hsieh a must
The good-looking textured light-sourced bouncy fun smart and stretchy page awesome information on particle systems
HTML Reference
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The Winsock Programmer's FAQ excellent Winsock resouce... Make sure you check out the lame list for a commentary of all shades of lameness. -->
Python.org The site for Python related information.
PyGame Now that you've got Python, something to muck about with.
Dependency Walker Awesome, view dependencies on *.
Wolftronix A friends webpage.
Tim Stonehocker
ePanorama.net Tomi Engdahl's Electronics Pages
Circuit cookbook archive (University of Alberta)
Medal of Honor Citations
Nation Rifle Association (NRA)
