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I was involved with a lot of different projects this week. I have two more new projects that are currently in the research phase, I will announce these shortly. In addition to those, I have had to rethink my Thermal Imager project. I intend make a more detailed post on this soon, but in short, […]

I have received the MLX 90620 thermopile and my Pan and Tilt servo system for  this project, and I have come up with a simple concept test of the idea. It was relatively easy to wire up the thermopile, and connect it to the arduino. It took a little more work to communicate with it […]

I have now implemented almost all of the basic gameplay features of Star Commander, and the game is more or less completely playable. There is still a lot of work to do, but this is huge progress, especially given the fact that I have only been working on this for a matter of weeks. This […]

I spent most of this week working on Star Commander, as I posted previously. I completed a great deal of work on client-specific rendering, and on the game rules. I  did some work on gui’s, creating a lobby gui, and doing more work on the main game menu. I also did some animating of the […]

With the exception of some research and planning on the Thermal Imaging Camera, I spent all of my time this week working on the Star Commander game project. I created a simple user interface, which I intend to replace soon with something more robust. To do this I need to dig deeper into T3D’s gui […]

I spent the vast majority of this week working on my new game project, Star Commander. I modelled, rigged, textured, and began the animations of the main character model in the game. For the initial release, I will probably just have one of these, with different skins for each team. The character will need a […]

  This week I mostly finished Artillery, the simple game I am working on. I created a new projectile type (a homing projectile) and created some new levels, in addition to fixing some bugs and doing some texturing. I started the project principally to force myself to improve my knowledge of vectors, 3D Mathematics, and […]

  This week I finished the Fast Fourier Transform and data recorder program (Project 115). There are a few improvements and GUI additions I would need to make before I would consider releasing it, but it does what I designed it to do. I also bought the parts for an IR laser illuminator, in the […]

  This week I almost finished my Signal Recorder and Data Analyser, I just need to put some finishing touches to it and test it with some real data. I put the program through some fairly extensive testing with sample data, and it seems to be running quite well. Calculating the fundamental frequency is usually […]

  This week I concentrated exclusively on the Signal Recorder and Data Analyser program. It is mostly done, in concept at least, but the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm I am using is proving to be difficult to implement and test. I spent some time on the data visualisation and graphing, which turned out to be […]