Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Been busy writing a modification for Quake3 using OpenCV to do face detection. The idea is to change the perspective on the game depending on at what angle you look at the screen.
It already works quite nicely, as you can see in the video. Note: skip to about 20% as ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Just ordered a Bluetooth Class 1 V2.0 EDR Dongle, which has a range of 250 metres! For the Kattenbak art collective, we're doing a project with 'spamming' movies made by artists of the collective on the Kunstvlaai expo coming May. The Kunstvlaai is the alternative art expo/festival to the "official" ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
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Old canon with improvement, originally uploaded by Arjan S..
Last night we spent much time making a whole new pingpongball canon, from scratch... we used a part from a pinball machine, ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
A friend of mine created a cute robot which is either scared or curious, dependent on what/who he meets... The team presented their work at the student's design competition of the Human-Robot interaction conference, and they won the first prize!
http://ork.be/archive/48/phobot
I'm anxious to see in which way they develop this puppy ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Last weekend we continued with our physical cursor project, this time doing it the way it's supposed to be, namely, the projection on the floor and walking over it, thus controlling the mouse. Here's the video.
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The lighting conditions weren't too good at the Rietveld Academy, where we did our ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
The hackers have hacked the Mifare RFID chip:
http://webwereld.nl/articles/50228/ov-chipkaart-definitief-gehackt.html
Read the paper here if you're really interested. The TNO security analysis is also interesting.
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
on-signal and M/L/K in action ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
concept for 2nd life..
where there is a lack of physical interacting (only virtual 'physical' interacting) in 2nd life, i don't think it will ever take over from 'real life'..
In that sence a 'chat box' with a different UI and some more options.
But it could be interesting if it was possible ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
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Second Life Sucks :-), originally uploaded by Arjan S..
Just a nice picture for you to view.
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