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First Impressions of Dart

By chad April 5, 2014Programming1 Comment

Today I finished my first Dart tutorial. For those that don't know what Dart is, Wikipedia has a nice synopsis that I've included here. Dart is an open-source Webprogramming language developed by Google. It was unveiled at the GOTO conference in Aarhus, October 10–12, 2011.[4] The goal of Dart is…

The Early Days of Flight

By chad December 7, 2013Ramblings, Technology, UncategorizedNo Comments

This post started from a comment I made on facebook about the "Volocopter" story on CNN. At the time my comment was "Why does this look like something from the early days of flight?" That it turns out is a very good question and an even better follow-up, "Aren't we in…

TED – Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly … and cooperate

By chad March 2, 2012TechnologyNo Comments

This is an absolutely fantastic TED video talking about robotic quad-copters. These things have amazing flight characteristics and abilities. Source: Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate.

TED – Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994)

By chad February 5, 2012TechnologyNo Comments

Found this interesting TED video last night. Thought it was worth sharing. Source: Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994).

Applying DD-WRT to a Linksys WRT54GL Router

By chad October 17, 2009UncategorizedNo Comments

My ancient D-Link 624 has showing signs of conking out over the past couple of months. That had put me in the dilemma of "Do I wait for 802.11n to be released or do I buy a modifiable router now?" Well, I made the decision. I bought an old, high…

Augmented Reality Pool Table (ARPool)

By chad September 18, 2009TechnologyNo Comments

I came across this video while browsing Make Magazines RSS feed. This is an augmented reality pool table called ARPool created in the RCVLab at Queens University. For more check out the original Make Magazine story at http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/09/augmented_reality_pool_pool_playing.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

NASA Ares I Test Footage

By chad September 16, 2009Technology, UncategorizedNo Comments

Check out this footage from the recent NASA Ares I Test.