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March 29, 2006
Python!
After Jurgen's presentation last week on python and the series 60, I borrowed a phone from clay and dove right in. I still don't follow python that well. It's supposed to have a very readable syntax but since i'm used to the unreadable kind reading python doesn't come easily. Either way, i've figured out enough to be dangerous. I've written an app that takes a photo every couple of seconds and uploads it to my pc @ home via FTP. This bypasses any MMS charges. It also posts cellID and tower info to a mySQL database, not sure if that's at all useful and if I can look that up anywhere. Dennis is going to lend me a gps dongle which will give me much more accurate readings.
Next step is to try to attach this to my body, well my clothes anyway. Anna is going to help me out and i'll meet with Despina next week. Good stuff. I think i'm going to apply for Conflux too if I get my idea down.
Posted by mb2811 at 09:40 PM
March 27, 2006
Insights Presenstation
Posted by mb2811 at 07:08 PM
March 23, 2006
Virtools Midterm
Ever since break has been over, i've been catching up with my 3D assignments and working on my midterm. I've attached it, though not all of the components, especially the proper camera perspective, were exported.
It's the story of a squid looking for a date. The treasure chests map to realtime craigslist personals. I haven't decided on how this will end.
Posted by mb2811 at 06:46 PM
March 03, 2006
Chee Yap
I went one block over today to the CS department on Mercer street to meet with Chee Yap about the work he has been doing with mapping and GIS. I found him because I was searching around for information on how to import tiger/line data and a lecture from his course showed up in my search results.
This was Jean-Marc's suggestion, try to meet with an interesting person at least once a month. And then write it down.
I'm going to start going to Chee Yap's lecture series and see if there is room for us to work together. I want to use his apis to expose interfaces for end users.
Posted by mb2811 at 05:35 PM
March 02, 2006
Boohbahs
Our assistive tech project:
Posted by mb2811 at 02:21 AM
Recycling Notes
Two things i've recently learned:
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one thing: apparently they ship the cardboard box recycling to china for processing. if, once it arrives, it has any food on it, the company actually ships it back to nyc b/c it's actually cheaper than having them dispose of it!
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One of the really interesting things that we’ve discovered in our research is that the trash collection companies guard their routes as trade secrets, so no ridealongs for us. The mayor’s office is currently trying to help us to get a ridealong for just a few blocks, so that we can see how the carters operate. Will keep you posted.
Posted by mb2811 at 01:07 AM