This past several weeks, I’ve been working on a 1.0 documentation project, a new toolkit for LabVIEW. This is the first project that I get to write from scratch and it’s been very exciting, yet at the same time, challenging. Being a 1.0 product, there’s a lot of fluidity in the software. The user-interface (UI) [...]
I use Google Reader to read all my RSS feeds. Google Reader is a powerful, fast, and easy to use aggregate reader. The beauty of Google Reader is that I can read all my subscriptions anywhere I’m connected to the web. I subscribe to hundreds of feeds but unfortunately I don’t get to read [...]
Lately, many websites that used to be blocked due to the the Great Firewall of China are working. Wikipedia being my favorite blocked website has been unblocked for some time. Blogger and Blogspot have been working on and off. I read in a blog post in Technology Review that more websites will become unblocked as [...]
I absolutely love games, games of all sorts from board games to video games to computer games. I don’t know where this fascination comes from but ever since I was a toddler, I loved playing games. I still do as a grown adult. Growing up, I’ve always wanted a video game console for a [...]
For those of you who have a Facebook account (or two), you no longer have to look at messages and news feed that are grammatically incorrect. Facebook announced that it will start requiring users to specify their gender so that you don’t see messages like “Susan tagged themself in a photo.”
As Facebook grows in [...]
I don’t know how some bloggers do it. There are quite a number of part-time bloggers (people who have full-time jobs and maintain an active blog or two on the side) who write several posts a week! As for me, I’m inconsistent. There are weeks when I write almost every day and weeks I don’t [...]
WiigoBot is a robot built using Lego Mindstorms NXT. The Wii remote is mounted in a swing, along with a motor to trigger the Wii remote buttons. Using LabVIEW software, the robot is programmed to play Wii bowling using WiigoBot.
Check out this video of WiigoBot playing a perfect game of Wii bowling!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUvind4t7Pk
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This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Picasa Photo TemplatesFotoPlayer is a flash based web photo album by Dhinakaran Annamalai. You can generate this slideshow using Picasa and the FotoPlayer Picasa template. This free template has limited features, but the FotoPlayer Pro ($89USD) and FotoPlayer Lite ($39USD) include [...]
In this video, NI re-created the “Dance Dance Revolution” arcade game using Real-Time and FPGA. Here, the RT controller generates audio/video output signals and streams data through DMA to the FPGA module. All the processing is done on the FPGA, synchronizing between the dance pad and the scoring logic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGGiL6T_4Es
The technology behind this DDR game:
NI [...]
Lesson #1: Always backup your blog.
Lesson #2: Read the docs before installing any plugin.
Lesson #3: Don’t use AskApache Password Protect plugin.
Thanks to Tom’s help, the stupid plugin added a new .htaccess file to my wp-admin folder and redirected my dashboard page to some unknown page. Not quite sure what the plugin was really supposed to [...]
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