adb shortcuts for the bash life

I spend a lot of time doing Android and I have no way of getting auto-complete through the entire stack of things you can do via ADB. 

So I made a bash profile for Android things. Its available on my GitHub. 

Here are my favorites:

adb-install because I hate writing the install.

adb-clear-data because I don't want to switch to my device or emulator and actually look for the app and then clear data. By the same token...

adb-force-stop because the adb command is so long and my hands are too lazy to get off the keyboard

apk-verify-certs because sometimes I forget if I signed my apk... and....

apk-view-cert in case I forgot what I signed it with =(

3D Real Time Twitter Visualization

Woo! Finally finished v0.1 of my Twitter visualization. 

The goal of the visualizer was to provide a different experience for viewing the tons and tons and tons of random stuff that's poured of Twitter's firehose. Twitter only allows access to 1% of all real-time tweets from all over the world and even with this limitation, there's about 30 - 50 tweets per second coming in and these tweets are displayed as text and thrown about this empty universe.

Here's a screen cast of it. Soon as I get a more powerful laptop, I'll be able to run the visualizer and a screencast and get a nice frame rate. But for now, this will have to do just so you get the effect. 

Remote Robot Control over Web App

I forgot to post this earlier. This is a spin off from my earlier project for the IEEE TePRA Competition. I took the same autonomous robot and added a remote controlled element.

I built a Java applet to communicate with an Android device to remote control a robot. The demo is here --- Enjoy!

Pandemonium Fortress 3D Render

And an update! Here's my final render with music. Managed to get an A for my 3D Graphics class so woooo.

Simple external LED circuit with FPGA

After spending a couple hours playing around with an Arduino Uno, I wanted to play some more with LEDs. But I wanted to do it in hardware instead of software. I had a Nexys 2 FPGA board by Digilent and spent awhile searching the internet for just really simple examples. I found some on youtube but I was looking for some more explanation. 



Here's a vid of the FPGA controlling the brightness of the LEDs with 2 buttons.

Streaming Frames out of Unity into OpenCV

2012 TePRA Competition Recap

Here, I'll be publishing my progress on the 2012 TePRA Student competition. I'll be building a robot car similar to the one displayed in the simulation to accomplish the task of being able to autonomously go around the block.

Here's a vid of the demo of my final working project. In the vid, the car is built from a Lego Car Kit

If this page starts getting some hits, I'll post up some of the code I developed to run it.