Space travel is awesome. Here’s a random photoshop I did to commemorate the safe return of the shuttle, woot! Earth photo is mine, Hubble photo and starfield (taken by hubble) courtesy of NASA. Right before their safe return, @Astro_Mike wrote “On day 12 on a night pass over India I say 2 shooting stars entering [...]
so i embarked on an epic roadtrip with my school buddy Eugene. all told we demolished over 7500 miles, and visited 22 states. i am working on a google map of the whole journey, and a bunch more photos like these which i’ll be uploading.
so my car got messed up this past week, mostly my fault, ironically after i finally bought some touch up paint for fixing a chip on the hood i’ve had for years. the passenger side doors had the body totally scratched to shit, so i brought it to a crappy place in queens which did [...]
augmented reality is cool. a symbol on the paper i am holding is providing data to project the 3d object onto the 2d webcam image. using a crappy webcam and the ARToolkit software.
KYB GR2 struts + Tanabe GF210 springs + subaru impreza wagon = joy best upgrade ever, it feels like a new car
i just finished reinstalling the touchscreen in the dash, its previous location wasn’t working out because solder connections of the vga cable kept wearing out. i bought a new usb gps dongle with an external antenna, it uses the NXP swGPS system; only a sirfstar III chip is onboard, and the satellite calculations are offloaded [...]