Aliens

Interesting behind the scenes facts about Vasquez.

• LV-426 t-shirt @ redbubble
• Vasquez t-shirt @ redbubble

SNL: Marvel can't fail sketch

Sony SmartWatch 2 Coding

Somewhat caught up with my Arduino wishes (and the kayaking - data gathering season is ending), so looking back again at the Sony SmartWatch 2 I've been carrying around, using for simple calendar, time, messaging. I'd like to integrate with my phone for tracking GPS "events". Also, having attended the Ed Sheeran concert a couple weeks, ago it would be interesting to make a watch concert app.

• Android SDK
• Sony SDK
• Smartwatch 2
• Documents
• SDK document

Comic Books and Graphic Novels

Taking Comic Books and Graphic Novels on Coursera, by Prof. William Kuskin. So far is pretty good comparison to literature, making you consider composition, manufacture, timing, and subtext. Although I didn't read comics as a kid very much, I did watch a lot of cartoons. As an adult I've grown to appreciate some graphic artists, took a drawing class at the U of MN, and at one point took a Comic book drawing course at MCAD. He compares Shakespeare's quartos could be considered like a floppy.

Arduino MP3 Player

I just received my SEEEDStudio Music Shield tonight, will have to see if I can get running by tommorrow - yes! The SEEEDStudio music shield library at github worked great! You just have to unnest your mp3 files into the root, it currently does not do folder delving. Now I have some Vivaldi - Four Seasons and Kraftwerk - Autobahn to listen to on the way to work today.

VS10xx Clock Frq: 0xC000
Card type: SD2
Volume type is FAT16
---- songs in TF card (root dir) ----
1. 01SPRI~1.MP3
2. 02SPRI~1.MP3
3. 03SPRI~1.MP3
4. 04SUMM~1.MP3
5. 05SUMM~1.MP3
6. 06SUMM~1.MP3
7. 07AUTU~1.MP3
8. 08AUTU~1.MP3
9. 09AUTU~1.MP3
10. 10WINT~1.MP3
11. 11WINT~1.MP3
12. 12WINT~1.MP3
13. 02KOME~1.MP3
14. 03KOME~1.MP3
15. 04MITT~1.MP3
16. 05MORG~1.MP3
17. 01AUTO~1.MP3
-------------------------------------
Playing song 01SPRI~1.MP3 ...
 [done].
Playing song 12WINT~1.MP3 ...

Hey Now (Sasha Remix)

Simon

Cecilia - fayenesse1's comment pretty much sums it up: "I'm pretty much officially jealous of Jimmy Fallon's life..."

The Boxer on SNL, 2001

Making of Cecilia - description of a physical "loop"

Arduino Pressure Sensor

A few weeks ago I recieved my BOSCH BMP085 Barometric Pressure Sensor module in the mail. Sparkfun has an excellent tutorial on how to hook it up to an Arduino.

Timewarp

You can catch Timewarp episodes on the discovery website.

See the original composer playing the theme on a BBC program, starts around 4:55

Eclipse Phase: All's well that ends well

Submitted this idea for the Con of the North:

The rim - this is no place for a civilized transhuman. The job: locate a bleeding edge tech for a corp. Reading the contract, your CPU reads reverse thrusters and head back to the closest gravity well, but your optics long to perceive positive signs in your credit readouts. How dangerous can a 300m long hab be? Approaching your target, you feel something deep's going down. You backed up? (396 chars)

System: Eclipse Phase by Catalyst Game Labs/Posthuman Studios.

Pre-gen choices provided.

Babylon 5

You know you've been watching too much Babylon 5, when you experience these things.

Or, as I did tonight, shout out, Eldot's from Babylon 5 while watching Friends 6.19: The One with Joey's Fridge. That was Josh Coxx AKA David Corwin

Friends quotes

"The messers become the messees" - Chandler, Friends, The one where everyone finds out - still one of my favorite all time quotes.

"Custard good. Jam good. Meat good." - Joey, Friends

Back to a Reliable Arduino Uno GPS + SD Logger

After a lot of tweaking, I think I have a more reliable data logger for GPS. I had been adjusting a variety of elements from my working logger, using comparison global variables to detect position change, manipulating the output, and I somehow got into a state where it was very unreliable - for instance, it might create the logger csv file, but there would be no contents. I think I am very close to the memory limit for an Arduino Uno. I have condensed most of the work - date and time manipulation for consistency, into one function, and also I've removed the aspects of the GPS library I was not using (velocity, heading, altitude). I also moved some of the common variables to be globals. I do think I'll try to change the code though so it will not log data if nothing has changed, which was a feature I liked about a previous version. - Update it's been added to the github project.

• GPSLogger - github project containing source code
ub
• gpsvisualizer - site used for rendering data (also via google maps)
• arduino - file timestamp article
• adafruit - similar file timestamp article
• concatenation

Arduino- based air quality data logger

Saw this product on the Arduino store at-heart catalog: air monitor.

Hypermiling

Thinking about getting one of these gauges:

Commercial

I think it sounds like the Scan Gauge II can show PID codes whereas nothing about the e seems to discuss that capability.

• Scan Gauge e
• Scan Gauge II
• Adding into a Honda Insight
• Comparison
• Ultragauge

Arduino

Opengauge

• MPGuino
• Obduino
• wiki
• opengauge code site (they do obduio and mpgduino)
• Kickstarter for OBD networks

CAN duino

I'm not entirely sure about this but I think CAN BUS has something to do with control (like if you wanted an Arduino cruise control.

• Canbus shield
• CAN BUS

Sparkfun

• OBD-II UART
• Tutorial

Mileage

I've often thought efficiency is an interesting idea. You have to be precise about the numerator and denominator though, what are you measuring? Is it vehicle miles/gallon, or person miles/gallon. For instance, hauling 8 people in a van may have poor vehicle miles/gallon, but actually a high person-miles/gallon ratio compared to driving multiple, separate vehicles required for a quantity of people to travel the same distance. xkcd's mpg what-if has an interesting take on how mpg (vehicle-mpg or person-mpg) is really an area term.